https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV8JJLJlfi4
Now my definition of cosmic horror boils down to movies that must have a terrified protagonist. Not because of the monsters or their dangerous surroundings, but because at some point in the movie, they realize that they have absolutely no power to change anything in the environment that surrounds them. Therefore films where the main characters struggle to fight against something that cannot be challenged, a battle that technically can’t be won. In short, movies that don’t have a happy ending. I’m going to be covering Cosmic horror-themed films. Movies that I feel do a fantastic job at adapting Lovecraftian themes. Not movies based on the works of HP Lovecraft.
List for TL;DW or otherwise known as hemomancer cheat sheet.
- Annihilation
- John Carpenter’s Apocalypse trilogy
- Event Horizon
- The Last Wave
- Possession
- The mist
- Uzumaki
- The Void
Possession from 1981? Love that one.
It may be heresy but Annihilation did nothing for me and I like Jeff VanderMeer’s writing and Alex Garland’s films so it should have been a dead cert.
It’s a fine movie as Syfy goes. That said i think that any Cronemberg movies can give you more “eldrich vibes”.
But that bear scene was so good!
My favourite scene, I believe - it’s been a while and I am not adverse to a rewatch, so…
But that’s all anybody ever says about the movie. It’s always that bear. They never mentioned the plant people they never mentioned the giant animals or that weird mimic thing at the end. Because the bear was the best part of the movie and in my opinion really the only part of the movie worth watching
Yeah, but the rest is almost interesting enough to sit through.
Aniara (2018)
