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volchonokilli t1_j7uzsxv wrote

Reply to comment by VeryInnocuousPerson in Shoggoth by Departedart

How about The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath? I've read it recently, and it seemed to be pretty focused around the character. Although original story is a bit hard to follow at times leaving much of descriptions up to imagination, with adaption it could really fit well into a movie in my opinion

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VeryInnocuousPerson t1_j7v43l0 wrote

Yeah I’ll admit I had to look up the plot to that one because it’s been a decade or so since I read it. That’s probably a better candidate for adaption than most. Dunwich Horror is another one that has a more conventional plot.

The new Del Toro Netflix horror anthology adapts a couple Lovecraft stories, Pickman’s Model and Witch House. They had to add a lot of filler to get to the ~60 min run time. The anthology is decent but those episodes are sort of muddled in my opinion.

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volchonokilli t1_j7wjntc wrote

Feels so weird that they had to add filler to get more screen time, as when reading Witch House it felt like a lot of time has passed in my imagination :D

But remembering the story, it actually totally makes sense that when adapting it as a movie, it would be hard to get much to show for longer time. Didn't think before that adapting something from text to movie could cause such quirks! New perspective to see things from

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