+Spartiatai300 May be a little late to respond but the studio he was tied to at the time said no unless it was PG-13. This was after Don't be Afraid of the Dark received an R rating and Del Toro felt uncomfortable giving that promise as he thought Don't be Afraid of the Dark would get a PG-13 rating and Mountains has 2 scenes that initially would be depicted graphically. Del Toro also spent a good amount of time researching and cutting the budget down to something more appealing. With all that said he put Mountains on the backburner, focusing on The Strain, Silent Hills (which didn't happen but gives an opening for Del Toro and Kojima to work together on a different project maybe InSane), and he went on to direct Crimson Peak which is coming out later this year. Del Toro plans to go on to Pacific Rim 2 and he is hoping to finish Hellboy with it's third installment if PR2 does well. Del Toro pretty much accepted that Mountains may not happen right away but he still wants to make the adaptation.
There are a lot of factors at play here, but ultimately I don't think Del Toro is the type to just drop a dream project. We'll hear him talking about Mountains again, just not right now. Del Toro runs into a niche category, he has a lot of fans but his movies do not start making a profit until after the theater run. That is something a production company does not like hearing. With a career running like that it is hard for Del Toro to get his own projects up and running like he'd like to, so he is forced to shop around ideas, for the most part it seems to work, Pacific Rim 2 is getting made and if that does well then Hellboy 3 would be in the works and if that does well he can get another project running. I want to see Del Toro succeed and make these projects without the hassle and as a Mexican it is lovely and inspiring seeing a Mexican director's name up there and respected by so many people. As for Prometheus, I would be foolish defending that movie, it's tripe.
Pretty good adaptation overall, though I wish you wouldn't have cut the defining moment where Danforth looks back as the plane leaves the mountains and sees something that horrifies him, something that affects him forever more. It wasn't the Shoggoth that drove him mad. There was an area to the East (if I remember correctly) that the Elder Things feared, and I have always wondered if it was Kadath itself (which resided in the East in the Dreamlands). If so, Danforth may have witnessed a horrific form of Nyarlothotep himself.
Agreed… and very cool take on what Danforth saw when he looked back over the mountains. I always imagine he had flashes of all the different Lovecraftian Gods,Nyarlthotep included.
How dare anyone thumb this thing down. The sheer amount of hours and work that must have gone into this, for probably zero money. It's great, whether you think it's in Mexican, Spanish, Italian, or R'lyehan.
23:00 My favorite depiction of Azathoth. It's like some vile, cancerous filth that continues to grow in ever more horrific ways even as it constantly devours itself. Very nice.
@@M3sierr Ouroboros eat it's tail to keep itself alive but not growing. Azathoth is a cancer that keep growning but eat itself because... It can. It can do that just because it can.
10th time im trying to reply ... UGH... Courtney Fontanella toro is the only director i can trust to do this film right. let him film it in europe under his studio and then use a EUROPEAN MOVIE COMPANY to release it world wide. since us americans are aparently too fucking dumb to admire anything brilliant (evidence : every reboot, remake and crap hollywood has shat out in the past 10 years ) . oldboy/dragon tattoo usa are teh most recent examples of us being too stupid to appreciate a well written story.
Kill The Gema My first wife was german we were married for 7 years and it was awesome we were together since hs so that means a total of 11 years . atleast a italian / german film would not stray from the badassery and raw power of mountains story.
Yay! Cthulhu speaks Italian! As the verse in the big, bad, book says: "What'sa matter u? I still fast asleep, In my comfy chair, Down in Ry'leh Deep, I'm a not so bad, Til the stars are right, Then I eat your brain, Ah shut uppa your face"
This style was absolutely fantastic for a mythos based animation. You all did a splendid job representing the feeling and atmosphere needed to make a real Lovecraftian tale come to life. Thank you all for your hard work!
E' estremamente difficile trovare qualcosa di lovecraftiano in Italia, in quanto spesso sottovalutato o addirittura evitato. Trovare qualcosa di animato, in uno dei romanzi più celebri del Maestro, è eccezionale e sopratutto emozionante per un accanito lettore delle opere di Lovecraft, dunque complimenti!
H.P. Lovecraft lived in the past but mentally he was a thousand years ahead of his time in seeing the implications of knowledge. He could see the horror possible in an impersonal universe but others mostly just pretend to.
No, Lovecraft was pretty firmly rooted in the knowledge of science from his time. Interpretation of some of his work suggests he may have guessed at a few things, but mostly he was just writing about the science of his day. Problem is, we don't teach most of the science of his day in schools. We haven't taught any of the major scientific discoveries that have come up since 1857. Lovecraft wasn't ahead of his time, we're behind his time.
Really? And all this time I was under the assumption that youtube comments were all about intelligent discussion. Now I know what I've been doing wrong this whole time!
Watch crap It's not obvious. It's a mystery. I was a young man once and repeated the exact same received information factoids you just posted. As for other life not caring about us, well we care about lower life forms as utility to us, which is similar to the creatures in Lovecraft.
Texas Arcane What ???? How is it a mystery??? Even if you add the worst of the absolute WORST odds for life to form, and evolve you still haver a billion stars that BOUD to have life. Yes but we care about lower lifeforms as utility that's in our INTIMIDATE vicinity. Only a civilization stable enough could achieve ftl, and I firmly believe if ftl is possible we have millions of different cultures participating in it, and they WHOULD have something akin to the first directive, of no direct interaction with any non ftl races... Also I am not a young man. Also BYE, you sound way to smug.
The animation is slow and stylized. Italian language with English subtitles. It does a good job of portraying H.P. Lovecraft's Cosmetic Horror with vile ancient creatures from deep space and even deeper time.
+C Bohnstedt no they did out of curiosity much like how a scientist would introduce a cow to different forms of radiation to see what kind of mutant creature is made
I've always wanted to see an adaptation of this story, I was so sad when Guillermo Del Toro wasn't able to actually make it. But this was fantastic! Great job! Beautiful piece of art!
@@CK...... the producers wanted the film to end with a happy ending and that doesn't make sense in a lovecraft world , that's why Del toro left the project ..But there is a good movie based on Lovecraft stories released in 2019, which is "Color Out of Space" starring Nicolas Cage, I advise you to watch it
This was an amazing work, I'm a Lovecraft reader, and I can't begin to understand the amount of work you and your team put into this, but I would love to see all major stories done like this. great respect for the source and a nice form of presentation. Congratulations!
Wow. This is it. Not just a precedent for Lovecraft fans, but for cinema altogether. It's been about 70 years since Lovecraft wrote his last work, and in that time, only a handful of movie adaptations were made and all of them sucked. This is the first Lovecraft related movie to not only keep with the story, but is actually good and has an art style that matches up with the descriptions in the story. Incredible work, certainly among UA-cam's finest, and an excellent peice in its own right!
the architecture of the elder things (?) was very well done. its pretty hard to imagine alien architecture (although not really alien but just earlier inhabitants). i guess all that stonework is what cyclopean means. i was disappointed they left out the giant albino cave penguins at the end haha. what wasnt described that well was whether they created a giant shoggoth to beat the cthulu monsters. but i guess they did as cthulu went into the sea. i like the nyalathotep bit at the end.
While certainly having very low production values and being an amateur work, this short film none the less has moments where it really captures the raw cosmic horror of Lovecraft's work. The script writer shows his knowledge of the over arching Mythos and executes it in the slightly distant, dispassionate voice of the original work. Bravo!
The ice age that brought down the Elder Thing’s Civilization was likely caused by the discharging of ash and debris into the atmosphere by the Atomic Weapons they used to quell the Shoggoth Rebellion.
I've lost count of how many times I've come back to see this adaptation throughout the years. Still love it as much as I did the first time. Thank you for this. 💚👍
I find it funny that cthulhu’s spawn created the stone city. I imagine lots of small Cthulhus (basically normal sized squids) running around in a yellow hard hat, planning and building with their little tools, all stopping for fish & chips at noon
It's great. I like the protagonist's knowledge of all the accumulated things BETTER than the ending of the original story. And the fact that you could tell the tale this well in thirty minutes tells me we don't need a two-hour-plus version, despite Del Toro's well-publicized desires.
Wow! You guys did REALLY well on the "short version" of *At the Mountains o Madness*! The depictions of the city and the Elder Things and Shoggoths were really good. Only one thing seemed a little off and that was the depictions of Dyer and Danforth. At the time that the story was written, older college Professors would have had the beards, and the younger students would have been clean-shaven. But that's the only criticism I can find! The rest was a first-rate adaptation.
Hace como 4 años atrás ví este corto y lo amé. Hoy, aún en cuarentena en mi país por el Sars cov2, lo he vuelto a disfrutar igual que otros cortos del gran Maestro H.P. Lovecraft. Excelente e inigualable. Saludos desde Chile
Yeah I would love that, problem is that a couple of past not so good adaptations to Lovecraft stories were budget busters as they were not received well by movie goers, so Hollywood movie produrcers won't want to risk their money
I mean tbh this dude is before his time. Stuff like this is blowing up all through UA-cam. Hopefully the dude who made this figures it out and continues these type of videos
Cavolo! Ma che bel lavoro. Incredibile che per 11 anni non vi abbia trovato prima. Da un grande appassionato di Lovecraft complimenti per lo sforzo produttivo, ancora oggi, come già scritto da altri, nettamente superiore alla maggior parte delle robacce che ci propinano al cinema ora! Bravi
What an accomplishment of film adaptation! The filmmakers managed to convey Lovecraft’s story and mood, faithfully and with competence! All this, I’m assuming, without financial assistance from a major studio! In addition, it was a good choice having the UA-cam video’s title and subtitles in English. Bravo!
Ciao! Il corto è stato realizzato in animazione con 3DS Max. Una tecnica molto semplice, composta da ambienti modellati e personaggi bidimensionali disegnati a matita e colorati in photoshop. E' molto vecchio come lavoro ormai. Attualmente sto lavorando ad un cortometraggio di animazione totalmente in 3d. Puoi trovare qualche spezzone nel mio canale ;)
tu sei un grande! sto da poco studiando la modellazione 3d e capisco appieno quanto pazienza ci vuole per fare un video simile!! complimenti vivissimi!
Excelente trabalho. Como sabemos, toda descrição feita pelo Mestre de Providence em relação aos Grandes Antigos é por demais vaga para haver uma concepção unânime e exata sobre Suas formas. Fazer apenas rápidos esboços delas foi uma grande solução; vendo a animação, continuamos perante o Desconhecido. "A emoção mais forte e mais Antiga do homem é o Medo; e o Medo mais Antigo e mais forte é o Medo do Desconhecido".
I have been a Lovecraft fan for over 40 years. I enjoyed this. My imagination has shown me many of these things, but I enjoyed your vision very much. I especially enjoyed the alien city, very nice work.
A very solid production, with an interesting mix of animation styles. The 3D renderings & backgrounds are quite good (stronger than the flat-panel drawings of the characters, if you'll pardon me), and it captures the feel of the story quite well. Also a faithful, if heavily streamlined, adaptation of the plot, with appealing links to other Lovecraft tales at the end. I'm impressed.
Loved the imagery, the soundtrack, the anatomy of the things, of the dead, loved the architecture of the nightmare city... Such good work! Creepy and awesome as it should be.
@Carrie Hallahan well, this is the feeling we, non-americans, get everyday on media, movies, songs, etc. There's subtitles on english, right? You will be fine.
@Carrie Hallahan dear Carrie, it's an independent short movie based on Lovecraft, in an anglophone world, and they've put subtitles for everyone, everywhere, to see it for free. As I've said, you will be just fine. Chillout, child.
@Carrie Hallahan oh! And also, that's really racist and xenophobic to say. Saying that italian names are shit, just because you were SLIGHTLY clickbaited. Just really awful, kid.
This is a terrific independent production! I have only seen it twice since it was made and I intend to watch it a third time. I have read the book (novella) of the same name and now want to read it again. This shows H.P. Lovecraft CAN be adapted to the screen. I really want to see a studio be brave enough to do him (Lovecraft) justice and make this into a feature-length film. I understand Guillermo Del Toro (sp?) had plans but decided to scrap the idea because Prometheus would accuse of plagiarism (even though Lovecraft did it first!)
It's 2020 and I'm still holding on to hope that del Toro will, in fact, be able to make our dreams come true. I happen to think it has been fate. He wasn't meant to realize his dream back then for several reasons. But the time is coming near and I'm preparing myself for it. Never say never. Anything is possible. 🤞💚
Congratulations for this work. I am a big fan of Lovecraft's work. And I read "At the mountains of madness" when I was in highschool. It was so complex, so full of details, nowadays we can say it was "a submervise experience". And this piece of art is so respectful and shows such a dedication. I loved it. I started watching and couldn`t stop till the end. Excelent work !
Finally! ! I have been looking for this forever. Saw it a few months ago but then couldn't find it with English subtitles, for some, possibly eldritch reason. Thanks!
It is not a small matter to attempt a visual interpretation of the imaginary worlds of the Old Gentleman From Providence, but this is an excellent job. Guillermo del Toro wants make At The Mountains of Madness into a film for $150 million. I think you did a reasonable job for much less. May I ask what animation software you used?
Id def love to see a lovecraft movie by that director however i bet he would diverge from the source material way to much for it to be truly good, he once tried to do a movie about Frank herberts dune and and after a year it became a 12 hour long acid trip! So they dropped him n got a diff guy to do it n now we have that shitty dune movie
@@madscientistshusta If you mean the remake, it will be out in a year or two... The one we already have was made by David Lynch but Jodorowski was meant to do it.
@@madscientistshusta i mean.... the fact that he supposedly attempted at making a “12 hour acid trip” movie of the DUNE experience, sounds like he’d probably be the best person for the job of depicting a lovecraft novel. if he was truly willing to go that balls out for a dune visualization
Very cool ! With the right finance, this would make a great film. I have an orchestral score based on this story that I've had since 1978 and I'm working on an update to it. Perhaps we could collaborate, since Guillermo's film doesn't look like ever seeing the light of day ?
The ending kinda comes out of nowhere since if you read the "The Shadow out of Time" it tells you some about humanities fate, which is we live at least until an evil Asian empire conquors the world (yes Lovecraft was racist) thousands of years from now, to be then replaced later on by Bipedal beatle creatures who sadly get their consiousnesses switched with the great race of Yith living millions of years ago so they can survive an attack by evil giant polyp creatures...wow that sounds weird when i type that out
StopFlaggingVideos Its mentioned very briefly when the protagonist talks about all the different people he met while trapped in the past, its only about 1 or 2 lines.
Si no fuese por los subtitulos no hubiera entendido casi nada, muy buena animación me quede fascinado, espectacular, por favor, tienes que hacer más adaptaciones como esta y siento que quedarán mejor, ya que, esta aprendiendo animación en 3-D.
I've tried to read almost every Lovecraft book, I love him Seeing this video, my god... what a masterpiece, I loved it! Congratulations, that was amazing!
I wonder if John Carpenter was inspired by this book to make the horror film 'The Thing'??!! :) Great video, thanks for uploading, I can see a lot of work's gone into it!
VoxNeruda "The Thing from Another World" (1951) was inspired by "Who goes there?" (1938) a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. John Carpenter took his inspiration from the same book. And stayed truer to the original story.
H.P. Lovecraft wrote and published "At the Mountains of Madness" in 1936, which inspired John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There", which inspired "The Thing From Another World". John Carpenter has mentioned in interviews that he was inspired by all three of these sources and creators when making "The Thing" and some of his other movies.
Muchos seres creados por Lovecraft son extradimensionales, lo que me hace pensar que si un ser de otra dimension llega a la nuestra, su interacción sería totalmente distinta en la nuestra que en la suya. A lo mejor se vería como magia.Tan solo ideas. Pienso que es como los milagros. Hechos científicos que serán explicados eventualmente. Ojála estos chicos hagan mas cortos con obras de Lovecraft.
Io, Sommo Adepto del Culto del Trapezoedro Lucente, stimo appieno questa Vs. realizzazione, anche emozionante (stupende le sequenze della colonizzazione e dello scontro tra l'esercito di Cthulhu e quello degli Antichi). Lo dico in inglese? A masterpiece. Ciao e in bocca allo... shoggoth ;)
Wow, just absolutely wonderful. The story is perhaps the pinnacle of cosmic horror that all other writers in the genre should strive to achieve. Lovecraft really created something special when he began writing these cosmic horror masterpieces.
Something lets me think that the person telling the story (not Lovecraft, but the scientist) is full of bullshit: In the story they are in those caves for a day before they leave again and there's no word about them taking pictures of the hieroglyphs they find - and yet in this short time they not just understand the carvings from an alien culture a *little* but so good that they get details out of them like the alien society being "socialist". No. Fucking. Way. The guy simply murdered and ate his colleagues (except for the guy who went mad witnessing it) and then made up a story about aliens that's about as believable as the shit on the history channel...
My thoughts exactly. No one could understand so much from just drawings; actually it would be impossible to even convey so much information with the use of carvings (i.e. without the use of text or at least some kind of metaphorical pictures, both of which would be incomprehensible to someone unfamiliar with the culture and/or the way of thinking of the elder race).
Dimm Vargr yeah, nobody ever learned anything about ancient civilizations by looking at their drawings in real life. oh wait, that's exactly what we did.
Hmmmmnope. But enlight me: How would you draw "socialist society"? Mind you - no Marx or Hammer and Scythe and stuff like that, since you're not from Earth...
Also this isn't stuff Egyptologists or other researchers of ancient history do just like that. It takes time to study to get such complex stuff. And yes, it was written in 1930, but that's not really an excuse. On the other hand it's just a little nitpicking of details and doesn't take away from the general fascination of Lovecraft's stories.
This is well done, You have picked a great starting point begin the tale and you have stayed as true to the visual descriptions as much as possible. The attention to detail in regarding the interior and the story of the cosmic war is very good. Most important you finished and presented an interpretation which is more than most can say.
1931 - no guys with long hair. No shaggy beards. Males then were classy and dapper without being rich. They prided themselves as being well-kept. Also, the eye glasses used are not 1930's wire framed varieties used. Bring the era to the present - do not muddy decade eras. Like a motion picture, the costuming has to be according to the time periods they are meant to convey. Considering your marketability in Italian Versus English . . . .the global usage of English FAR exceeds the Roma lingo. Do the voice-overs in English for better campaigning for Western investment. /// 1931 - Non ci sono ragazzi con i capelli lunghi. Non ci sono barbe irsute. Maschi poi erano di classe ed elegante senza essere ricco. Si vantavano come essere curato. Inoltre, gli occhiali usati non sono 1930 varietà filo incorniciato utilizzati. Portare l'epoca ad oggi - fare epoche decennio non fangosi. Come un film, i costumi deve essere secondo i periodi di tempo essi sono destinati a trasmettere. Considerando la vostra negoziabilità in italiano Versus inglese. . . .il l'utilizzo globale di inglese supera di gran lunga il gergo Roma. Fare le voci fuori campo in inglese per una migliore campagna per investimenti occidentali.
Would you like to think yourself so vain in temperatures upto -40 degrees Centigrade to be able to shave every day? You have to be joking! Don't forget the mountainous areas including the many volcanoes including Mt. Erebus, the most southerly active volcano. A new sub-ice sheet volcano was discovered a few years ago due to increasing seismic activity. I do agree about the glasses; maybe earlier explorers wore goggles. They certainly needed snow & sun glare protection.
Valentin Koscheyev I enjoyed the use of Italian. Considering it's not a language much spoken outside of Italy, it adds an extra layer of foreignness to the story.
Valentin Koscheyev, they had been in a long trip to the artic in a ship so they are portrait that way cause you can just randomly shower in the cold of the artic
This makes me want to make a Lovecraftian inspired film.
Adoss shall rule all Isn't Del Toro trying to make a movie about this story?
Spartiatai300 Then I'll just have to choose another one, there's plenty to choose from.
+Spartiatai300 May be a little late to respond but the studio he was tied to at the time said no unless it was PG-13. This was after Don't be Afraid of the Dark received an R rating and Del Toro felt uncomfortable giving that promise as he thought Don't be Afraid of the Dark would get a PG-13 rating and Mountains has 2 scenes that initially would be depicted graphically. Del Toro also spent a good amount of time researching and cutting the budget down to something more appealing. With all that said he put Mountains on the backburner, focusing on The Strain, Silent Hills (which didn't happen but gives an opening for Del Toro and Kojima to work together on a different project maybe InSane), and he went on to direct Crimson Peak which is coming out later this year. Del Toro plans to go on to Pacific Rim 2 and he is hoping to finish Hellboy with it's third installment if PR2 does well. Del Toro pretty much accepted that Mountains may not happen right away but he still wants to make the adaptation.
There are a lot of factors at play here, but ultimately I don't think Del Toro is the type to just drop a dream project. We'll hear him talking about Mountains again, just not right now.
Del Toro runs into a niche category, he has a lot of fans but his movies do not start making a profit until after the theater run. That is something a production company does not like hearing. With a career running like that it is hard for Del Toro to get his own projects up and running like he'd like to, so he is forced to shop around ideas, for the most part it seems to work, Pacific Rim 2 is getting made and if that does well then Hellboy 3 would be in the works and if that does well he can get another project running. I want to see Del Toro succeed and make these projects without the hassle and as a Mexican it is lovely and inspiring seeing a Mexican director's name up there and respected by so many people.
As for Prometheus, I would be foolish defending that movie, it's tripe.
+Adoss shall rule all I think the secret of making a successful Lovecraft movie is by following the rule; Less is more
Pretty good adaptation overall, though I wish you wouldn't have cut the defining moment where Danforth looks back as the plane leaves the mountains and sees something that horrifies him, something that affects him forever more. It wasn't the Shoggoth that drove him mad. There was an area to the East (if I remember correctly) that the Elder Things feared, and I have always wondered if it was Kadath itself (which resided in the East in the Dreamlands). If so, Danforth may have witnessed a horrific form of Nyarlothotep himself.
Agreed… and very cool take on what Danforth saw when he looked back over the mountains. I always imagine he had flashes of all the different Lovecraftian Gods,Nyarlthotep included.
Ya that’s my theory too
Awesome comment ✊
"Hadn't cut", not "wouldn't have cut".
@@hyliadreamer get outta here with that shit xD
How dare anyone thumb this thing down. The sheer amount of hours and work that must have gone into this, for probably zero money. It's great, whether you think it's in Mexican, Spanish, Italian, or R'lyehan.
23:00 My favorite depiction of Azathoth. It's like some vile, cancerous filth that continues to grow in ever more horrific ways even as it constantly devours itself. Very nice.
it grows as it devours itself? That reminds me of ourobouros
@@M3sierr
Ouroboros eat it's tail to keep itself alive but not growing. Azathoth is a cancer that keep growning but eat itself because... It can. It can do that just because it can.
Hollywood is too chicken to make it into a movie.
fuck that dude .... OroborusFMA maybe JAPAN OR germany for a movie norway for a far chance :) since they did "dead snow" :)
They were going to, with Del Toro directing. But it was canceled due to Prometheus 'exploring the same themes'. Or something haha
FUCK GOOGLE PLUS. FUCK UTUBE FOR SUCKING WITH THIS REQUIREMENT TO COMMENT. Courtney Fontanella
10th time im trying to reply ... UGH...
Courtney Fontanella
toro is the only director i can trust to do this film right. let him film it in europe under his studio and then use a EUROPEAN MOVIE COMPANY to release it world wide.
since us americans are aparently too fucking dumb to admire anything brilliant (evidence : every reboot, remake and crap hollywood has shat out in the past 10 years ) . oldboy/dragon tattoo usa are teh most recent examples of us being too stupid to appreciate a well written story.
Kill The Gema My first wife was german we were married for 7 years and it was awesome we were together since hs so that means a total of 11 years . atleast a italian / german film would not stray from the badassery and raw power of mountains story.
Yay! Cthulhu speaks Italian!
As the verse in the big, bad, book says:
"What'sa matter u?
I still fast asleep,
In my comfy chair,
Down in Ry'leh Deep,
I'm a not so bad,
Til the stars are right,
Then I eat your brain,
Ah shut uppa your face"
The even greater horror were those fake Italian dishes : the abominable spaghetti bolognese, Alfredo sauce and the unspeakable garlic bread
@@andreave721 Don't you dare talk trash about garlic bread
@@andreave721 -- Don't you dare talk trash about spaghetti bolognese!
Luckily Italians are more respectful than the burger eaters when it comes to transpose HPL stories...
"I did not eat your brain. I did not. I did not...oh hi Mark."
This style was absolutely fantastic for a mythos based animation. You all did a splendid job representing the feeling and atmosphere needed to make a real Lovecraftian tale come to life. Thank you all for your hard work!
Written in 1931, but rejected by publisher, as they said it was too long.....published 1936.....I love HPL....
E' estremamente difficile trovare qualcosa di lovecraftiano in Italia, in quanto spesso sottovalutato o addirittura evitato. Trovare qualcosa di animato, in uno dei romanzi più celebri del Maestro, è eccezionale e sopratutto emozionante per un accanito lettore delle opere di Lovecraft, dunque complimenti!
Amazing how the 2D characters and 3D models fit together seemlessly, the theme was perfect!
H.P. Lovecraft lived in the past but mentally he was a thousand years ahead of his time in seeing the implications of knowledge. He could see the horror possible in an impersonal universe but others mostly just pretend to.
No, Lovecraft was pretty firmly rooted in the knowledge of science from his time. Interpretation of some of his work suggests he may have guessed at a few things, but mostly he was just writing about the science of his day. Problem is, we don't teach most of the science of his day in schools. We haven't taught any of the major scientific discoveries that have come up since 1857. Lovecraft wasn't ahead of his time, we're behind his time.
cheezemonkeyeater Thanks for correcting me. That's what UA-cam is all about, scoring points on replies.
Really? And all this time I was under the assumption that youtube comments were all about intelligent discussion.
Now I know what I've been doing wrong this whole time!
Watch crap
It's not obvious. It's a mystery. I was a young man once and repeated the exact same received information factoids you just posted. As for other life not caring about us, well we care about lower life forms as utility to us, which is similar to the creatures in Lovecraft.
Texas Arcane
What ???? How is it a mystery??? Even if you add the worst of the absolute WORST odds for life to form, and evolve you still haver a billion stars that BOUD to have life.
Yes but we care about lower lifeforms as utility that's in our INTIMIDATE vicinity. Only a civilization stable enough could achieve ftl, and I firmly believe if ftl is possible we have millions of different cultures participating in it, and they WHOULD have something akin to the first directive, of no direct interaction with any non ftl races...
Also I am not a young man. Also BYE, you sound way to smug.
One of the best horror movies I saw as a child was John Carpenter's "The Thing". I'll leave it at that.
Great, The Thing.
I am scared for life after seeing "The Thing". To this day, body horror is really the only kind of horror that can really scare me.
+Arisoff agree
The Thing was based on a book, which was based on Lovecraft's novel.
Not quite right, "Who Goes There?" was the novel, written by John Campbell, he was Lovecraft's publisher for some years, so they worked together.
A great moment when the plane crosses the final mountain range 14:00 and the city of the Old Ones comes into view!
The animation is slow and stylized. Italian language with English subtitles. It does a good job of portraying H.P. Lovecraft's Cosmetic Horror with vile ancient creatures from deep space and even deeper time.
A cold, indifferent Universe. A merciless reality. Those are good themes for a horror story. Both also happen to be real.
+TomeOfBattle yeah, as a joke.
Right on
What better reason could they have?
+C Bohnstedt no they did out of curiosity much like how a scientist would introduce a cow to different forms of radiation to see what kind of mutant creature is made
Strange thing to hear from the Gap-Toothed Idiot himself.
I've always wanted to see an adaptation of this story, I was so sad when Guillermo Del Toro wasn't able to actually make it. But this was fantastic! Great job! Beautiful piece of art!
They had Tom Cruise and everything. I just don't understand how it could have possibly been canceled. It would've been a masterpiece for sure.
@@CK...... the producers wanted the film to end with a happy ending and that doesn't make sense in a lovecraft world , that's why Del toro left the project ..But there is a good movie based on Lovecraft stories released in 2019, which is "Color Out of Space" starring Nicolas Cage, I advise you to watch it
@@maxgallagher2535 I heard, "The Color out of space" was Lovecrafts personal favorite story out of all his work. So now i definitely gotta watch it.
@S Niter Bioshock should definitely be rated R.
This was an amazing work, I'm a Lovecraft reader, and I can't begin to understand the amount of work you and your team put into this, but I would love to see all major stories done like this. great respect for the source and a nice form of presentation.
Congratulations!
Wow. This is it. Not just a precedent for Lovecraft fans, but for cinema altogether. It's been about 70 years since Lovecraft wrote his last work, and in that time, only a handful of movie adaptations were made and all of them sucked. This is the first Lovecraft related movie to not only keep with the story, but is actually good and has an art style that matches up with the descriptions in the story. Incredible work, certainly among UA-cam's finest, and an excellent peice in its own right!
Il mio racconto di Lovecraft preferito. Complimenti!!!
the architecture of the elder things (?) was very well done. its pretty hard to imagine alien architecture (although not really alien but just earlier inhabitants). i guess all that stonework is what cyclopean means. i was disappointed they left out the giant albino cave penguins at the end haha. what wasnt described that well was whether they created a giant shoggoth to beat the cthulu monsters. but i guess they did as cthulu went into the sea. i like the nyalathotep bit at the end.
While certainly having very low production values and being an amateur work, this short film none the less has moments where it really captures the raw cosmic horror of Lovecraft's work. The script writer shows his knowledge of the over arching Mythos and executes it in the slightly distant, dispassionate voice of the original work. Bravo!
But where were the penguins? Otherwise, I really enjoyed it. :)
I agree... with out penguins isn´t a fear story! Never after a penguins scare me in that way! hahaha
Fucking white penguins
The ice age that brought down the Elder Thing’s Civilization was likely caused by the discharging of ash and debris into the atmosphere by the Atomic Weapons they used to quell the Shoggoth Rebellion.
Congratulations, Michele!
(And thanks for the subtitles..)
thats the best thing i have ever seen about lovecraft!
This makes me miss Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem which is, in my opinion, the best tribute to Lovecraft ever made.
I've lost count of how many times I've come back to see this adaptation throughout the years. Still love it as much as I did the first time. Thank you for this. 💚👍
HP Lovecraft is criminally under represented in most forms of media thank you very much for the video, We need more like it.
Well done! As a fan of both animation and H.P. Lovecraft, I thank you for making this. Beautiful and moody. Bravo!
Love the musical references to John Carpenter's The Thing, which was partly inspired by Lovecraft's AtMoM. It's a full circle!
I find it funny that cthulhu’s spawn created the stone city. I imagine lots of small Cthulhus (basically normal sized squids) running around in a yellow hard hat, planning and building with their little tools, all stopping for fish & chips at noon
What about the penguins? And the undeground hot springs the Elder Ones went to? Great film though!
Io chiamo penguini!!!
It's great. I like the protagonist's knowledge of all the accumulated things BETTER than the ending of the original story. And the fact that you could tell the tale this well in thirty minutes tells me we don't need a two-hour-plus version, despite Del Toro's well-publicized desires.
Wow! You guys did REALLY well on the "short version" of *At the Mountains o Madness*! The depictions of the city and the Elder Things and Shoggoths were really good. Only one thing seemed a little off and that was the depictions of Dyer and Danforth. At the time that the story was written, older college Professors would have had the beards, and the younger students would have been clean-shaven. But that's the only criticism I can find! The rest was a first-rate adaptation.
Hace como 4 años atrás ví este corto y lo amé. Hoy, aún en cuarentena en mi país por el Sars cov2, lo he vuelto a disfrutar igual que otros cortos del gran Maestro H.P. Lovecraft. Excelente e inigualable. Saludos desde Chile
The piano during the credits was good as, I'll have to remember that.
Muy bueno,great piece of work...I´ve just loved it!!!!Felicitaciones
Guillermo Del Toro please make a live adaptation.
Yeah I would love that, problem is that a couple of past not so good adaptations to Lovecraft stories were budget busters as they were not received well by movie goers, so Hollywood movie produrcers won't want to risk their money
His script is on line and it was not inspiring - more like his TV Mini-series.
@@leorivers7759 Well, disaster averted then!!! I guess someone in Hollywood saw the light and declined the offer. LOL
I mean tbh this dude is before his time. Stuff like this is blowing up all through UA-cam. Hopefully the dude who made this figures it out and continues these type of videos
Cavolo! Ma che bel lavoro. Incredibile che per 11 anni non vi abbia trovato prima. Da un grande appassionato di Lovecraft complimenti per lo sforzo produttivo, ancora oggi, come già scritto da altri, nettamente superiore alla maggior parte delle robacce che ci propinano al cinema ora! Bravi
What an accomplishment of film adaptation! The filmmakers managed to convey Lovecraft’s story and mood, faithfully and with competence! All this, I’m assuming, without financial assistance from a major studio!
In addition, it was a good choice having the UA-cam video’s title and subtitles in English. Bravo!
Ciao! Il corto è stato realizzato in animazione con 3DS Max.
Una tecnica molto semplice, composta da ambienti modellati e personaggi bidimensionali disegnati a matita e colorati in photoshop.
E' molto vecchio come lavoro ormai. Attualmente sto lavorando ad un cortometraggio di animazione totalmente in 3d. Puoi trovare qualche spezzone nel mio canale ;)
tu sei un grande! sto da poco studiando la modellazione 3d e capisco appieno quanto pazienza ci vuole per fare un video simile!! complimenti vivissimi!
Dont know why but the animations of the elder things and cthulhu race gives me the creeps...
H. P. Lovecraft thought of those monsters to give us the creeps
Excelente trabalho. Como sabemos, toda descrição feita pelo Mestre de Providence em relação aos Grandes Antigos é por demais vaga para haver uma concepção unânime e exata sobre Suas formas. Fazer apenas rápidos esboços delas foi uma grande solução; vendo a animação, continuamos perante o Desconhecido.
"A emoção mais forte e mais Antiga do homem é o Medo; e o Medo mais Antigo e mais forte é o Medo do Desconhecido".
wow, im really impressed with atmosphere. extremely well done :)
Congratulations, Michele Botticelli. What an excellent piece of work. This might be the third time I watch it and still find it uncanny. Love it.
Yes, its in Italian, I love it. I'm bored of the same McDonald's English recipe. This is a new visual and language taste. Different is good.
True
Grazie mille per questo video. Hai fatto un lavoro incredibile!
Mean edges to it, Reality is so fragile, how many crazies see real?
“Invisible things are the only realities.”
- Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath
I have been a Lovecraft fan for over 40 years. I enjoyed this. My imagination has shown me many of these things, but I enjoyed your vision very much. I especially enjoyed the alien city, very nice work.
A very solid production, with an interesting mix of animation styles. The 3D renderings & backgrounds are quite good (stronger than the flat-panel drawings of the characters, if you'll pardon me), and it captures the feel of the story quite well. Also a faithful, if heavily streamlined, adaptation of the plot, with appealing links to other Lovecraft tales at the end. I'm impressed.
Wow!!! nice work!! ( Wow! fue un trabajo genial, felicidades a los autores de esta animacion)
¡Qué gran trabajo! Quedó muy bien, me encanta la atmósfera y la forma en que lo hicieron, es muy inmersivo.
Gracias :)
Loved the imagery, the soundtrack, the anatomy of the things, of the dead, loved the architecture of the nightmare city... Such good work! Creepy and awesome as it should be.
@Carrie Hallahan well, this is the feeling we, non-americans, get everyday on media, movies, songs, etc. There's subtitles on english, right? You will be fine.
@Carrie Hallahan dear Carrie, it's an independent short movie based on Lovecraft, in an anglophone world, and they've put subtitles for everyone, everywhere, to see it for free. As I've said, you will be just fine. Chillout, child.
@Carrie Hallahan oh! And also, that's really racist and xenophobic to say. Saying that italian names are shit, just because you were SLIGHTLY clickbaited. Just really awful, kid.
@Carrie Hallahan HAHAHAHAHAHAH SUCH A TROLL! My God, Lovecraft really attracts this type of characters, right? Geez...
@Carrie Hallahan A good answer would be something in the lines of: garota, você já provou que sabe ler, então leia as legendas e segue a vida.
This actually kept me really focused and immersed. Awesome job!
I got the same feeling from this as I did that old 2D game, "The Dig."
That was fantastico!!! Very HPLovecraft mood and environment . The music was great also to move the story along.
This is a terrific independent production! I have only seen it twice since it was made and I intend to watch it a third time. I have read the book (novella) of the same name and now want to read it again.
This shows H.P. Lovecraft CAN be adapted to the screen. I really want to see a studio be brave enough to do him (Lovecraft) justice and make this into a feature-length film. I understand Guillermo Del Toro (sp?) had plans but decided to scrap the idea because Prometheus would accuse of plagiarism (even though Lovecraft did it first!)
It's 2020 and I'm still holding on to hope that del Toro will, in fact, be able to make our dreams come true. I happen to think it has been fate. He wasn't meant to realize his dream back then for several reasons. But the time is coming near and I'm preparing myself for it. Never say never. Anything is possible. 🤞💚
Great job of condensing Lovecraft's novella! Good job on the tie-ins,too.
Cool, man!
Are you planning to do The shadow over Innsmouth?
I was very pleased by this animation and thank you for contributing.
Congratulations for this work. I am a big fan of Lovecraft's work. And I read "At the mountains of madness" when I was in highschool. It was so complex, so full of details, nowadays we can say it was "a submervise experience". And this piece of art is so respectful and shows such a dedication. I loved it. I started watching and couldn`t stop till the end. Excelent work !
Lovecraft era um gênio do horror. Impressionante.
Finally! ! I have been looking for this forever. Saw it a few months ago but then couldn't find it with English subtitles, for some, possibly eldritch reason.
Thanks!
It is not a small matter to attempt a visual interpretation of the imaginary worlds of the Old Gentleman From Providence, but this is an excellent job.
Guillermo del Toro wants make At The Mountains of Madness into a film for $150 million. I think you did a reasonable job for much less.
May I ask what animation software you used?
Id def love to see a lovecraft movie by that director however i bet he would diverge from the source material way to much for it to be truly good, he once tried to do a movie about Frank herberts dune and and after a year it became a 12 hour long acid trip! So they dropped him n got a diff guy to do it n now we have that shitty dune movie
@@madscientistshusta If you mean the remake, it will be out in a year or two... The one we already have was made by David Lynch but Jodorowski was meant to do it.
@@madscientistshusta i mean.... the fact that he supposedly attempted at making a “12 hour acid trip” movie of the DUNE experience, sounds like he’d probably be the best person for the job of depicting a lovecraft novel. if he was truly willing to go that balls out for a dune visualization
Really Excellent. An amazing adaption of an amazing story. Really well done.
Very cool ! With the right finance, this would make a great film. I have an orchestral score based on this story that I've had since 1978 and I'm working on an update to it. Perhaps we could collaborate, since Guillermo's film doesn't look like ever seeing the light of day ?
Increíble! Felicitacione, Michele et al, esto es magistral!
I like it. Good job. Would like to see a big budget version of this that stays true to the story as you did.
guillermo del toro is making it
Outstanding. When is the release date?
Timmy Andre nahh they give up on the project because of treaths from cultist against them :/ srry about the english
Muy buen trabajo sobre un cuento magnífico. Muy bien la música y efectos de sonido. Te felicito!!! Todo muy lovecraftiano!!!
The ending kinda comes out of nowhere since if you read the "The Shadow out of Time" it tells you some about humanities fate, which is we live at least until an evil Asian empire conquors the world (yes Lovecraft was racist) thousands of years from now, to be then replaced later on by Bipedal beatle creatures who sadly get their consiousnesses switched with the great race of Yith living millions of years ago so they can survive an attack by evil giant polyp creatures...wow that sounds weird when i type that out
wow i had no idea about the asian empire thing, i knew about the beetles that came after humans (the great old ones take the beetle bodies)
StopFlaggingVideos Its mentioned very briefly when the protagonist talks about all the different people he met while trapped in the past, its only about 1 or 2 lines.
He was no racist he was a writer with knowledge about the ending. Saying he was a racist is like saying every bible know was wrote by a racist.
Bear DarkDawnActual I meant H.P.Lovecraft was racist not the character
I know exactly what you meant.
Very beautiful! Nicely done! Thank you so much for your work!
Si no fuese por los subtitulos no hubiera entendido casi nada, muy buena animación me quede fascinado, espectacular, por favor, tienes que hacer más adaptaciones como esta y siento que quedarán mejor, ya que, esta aprendiendo animación en 3-D.
This is such excellent work! Wow. Thanks!
Edgar Allan Poe Beside Companion eh? I like it.
I enjoyed your picture, it was very good! I wish there was more to see, it brings the books of Lovecraft to life!
20:30 Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
+Asura Iä! Iä! KUTULU! Iä! Iä! AZATHOTH!
yeah! Iä Iä me!
Fuck DAGON!
Cthulhu Of R'lyeh MY LORD! 💙
This is an excellent piece of work. You captured the essence of Lovecraft's story very well!
i clicked cc. now where is my free sub sandwich
Great work! At the mountains of madness is my favorite HP Lovecraft story. This was awesome
No gringo blind penguins kind of sad they half-assed those out.
Wow. This was immensly enjoyable Michele!! Thank you very very much!!
Amazing man! Amazing….
I've tried to read almost every Lovecraft book, I love him
Seeing this video, my god... what a masterpiece, I loved it! Congratulations, that was amazing!
I wonder if John Carpenter was inspired by this book to make the horror film 'The Thing'??!! :)
Great video, thanks for uploading, I can see a lot of work's gone into it!
No.
"The Thing from Another World" (1951),
starring James Arness.
Hmm, I wonder if that film was inspired by this book. Or was it 'Who Goes There?'
VoxNeruda "The Thing from Another World" (1951) was inspired by "Who goes there?" (1938) a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. John Carpenter took his inspiration from the same book. And stayed truer to the original story.
H.P. Lovecraft wrote and published "At the Mountains of Madness" in 1936, which inspired John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There", which inspired "The Thing From Another World". John Carpenter has mentioned in interviews that he was inspired by all three of these sources and creators when making "The Thing" and some of his other movies.
May the legacy continue...
I have to admit that it was great. Good work, really good. I hope to see more of your movies such like that.
Tekeli-li!
Fantastic. Really captures the Lovecraft feel. Really enjoyed it. Thank you!
Muchos seres creados por Lovecraft son extradimensionales, lo que me hace pensar que si un ser de otra dimension llega a la nuestra, su interacción sería totalmente distinta en la nuestra que en la suya. A lo mejor se vería como magia.Tan solo ideas. Pienso que es como los milagros. Hechos científicos que serán explicados eventualmente. Ojála estos chicos hagan mas cortos con obras de Lovecraft.
Years and years later and I always come back to this
Faltó la guerra contra los Mi-Go y los pingüinos gigantes blancos y ciegos, además de los pólipos.
Siete fantastici, grazie per creare e condividere le ambientazioni, le atmosfere di Lovecraft in maniera fantastica, complimenti.
genial!!!! exelente !!!
Is italian not spanish
Ignorant
Andrea Garzia disculpa amigo yo hablo español :D asi que quise hacer mi comentario en mi idioma, me entiendes?
Ah sorry i hope you were american but i dont understand what you said sorry
Joe Must Die tenemos q entender ingles pero no mueven un dedo para usar un traductor por un comentario en español ¬¬ y encima mas de uno insulta.
Just a thought add use Close Caption for english Subs in the description next time
Io, Sommo Adepto del Culto del Trapezoedro Lucente, stimo appieno questa Vs. realizzazione, anche emozionante (stupende le sequenze della colonizzazione e dello scontro tra l'esercito di Cthulhu e quello degli Antichi).
Lo dico in inglese? A masterpiece.
Ciao e in bocca allo... shoggoth ;)
What language is thisssss
175BPM italian,you silly!
Wow, just absolutely wonderful. The story is perhaps the pinnacle of cosmic horror that all other writers in the genre should strive to achieve. Lovecraft really created something special when he began writing these cosmic horror masterpieces.
Something lets me think that the person telling the story (not Lovecraft, but the scientist) is full of bullshit:
In the story they are in those caves for a day before they leave again and there's no word about them taking pictures of the hieroglyphs they find - and yet in this short time they not just understand the carvings from an alien culture a *little* but so good that they get details out of them like the alien society being "socialist".
No. Fucking. Way.
The guy simply murdered and ate his colleagues (except for the guy who went mad witnessing it) and then made up a story about aliens that's about as believable as the shit on the history channel...
+Commander Kruge this was written in 1930.
My thoughts exactly. No one could understand so much from just drawings; actually it would be impossible to even convey so much information with the use of carvings (i.e. without the use of text or at least some kind of metaphorical pictures, both of which would be incomprehensible to someone unfamiliar with the culture and/or the way of thinking of the elder race).
Dimm Vargr yeah, nobody ever learned anything about ancient civilizations by looking at their drawings in real life. oh wait, that's exactly what we did.
Hmmmmnope.
But enlight me: How would you draw "socialist society"? Mind you - no Marx or Hammer and Scythe and stuff like that, since you're not from Earth...
Also this isn't stuff Egyptologists or other researchers of ancient history do just like that. It takes time to study to get such complex stuff.
And yes, it was written in 1930, but that's not really an excuse. On the other hand it's just a little nitpicking of details and doesn't take away from the general fascination of Lovecraft's stories.
This is well done, You have picked a great starting point begin the tale and you have stayed as true to the visual descriptions as much as possible. The attention to detail in regarding the interior and the story of the cosmic war is very good. Most important you finished and presented an interpretation which is more than most can say.
1931 - no guys with long hair. No shaggy beards. Males then were classy and dapper without being rich. They prided themselves as being well-kept. Also, the eye glasses used are not 1930's wire framed varieties used. Bring the era to the present - do not muddy decade eras. Like a motion picture, the costuming has to be according to the time periods they are meant to convey.
Considering your marketability in Italian Versus English . . . .the global usage of English FAR exceeds the Roma lingo. Do the voice-overs in English for better campaigning for Western investment. /// 1931 - Non ci sono ragazzi con i capelli lunghi. Non ci sono barbe irsute. Maschi poi erano di classe ed elegante senza essere ricco. Si vantavano come essere curato. Inoltre, gli occhiali usati non sono 1930 varietà filo incorniciato utilizzati. Portare l'epoca ad oggi - fare epoche decennio non fangosi. Come un film, i costumi deve essere secondo i periodi di tempo essi sono destinati a trasmettere.
Considerando la vostra negoziabilità in italiano Versus inglese. . . .il l'utilizzo globale di inglese supera di gran lunga il gergo Roma. Fare le voci fuori campo in inglese per una migliore campagna per investimenti occidentali.
Would you like to think yourself so vain in temperatures upto -40 degrees Centigrade to be able to shave every day? You have to be joking! Don't forget the mountainous areas including the many volcanoes including Mt. Erebus, the most southerly active volcano. A new sub-ice sheet volcano was discovered a few years ago due to increasing seismic activity. I do agree about the glasses; maybe earlier explorers wore goggles. They certainly needed snow & sun glare protection.
Valentin Koscheyev I enjoyed the use of Italian. Considering it's not a language much spoken outside of Italy, it adds an extra layer of foreignness to the story.
Valentin Koscheyev, they had been in a long trip to the artic in a ship so they are portrait that way cause you can just randomly shower in the cold of the artic
This is awesome! Stumbled upon it 8 years late unfortunately...