# The best films based on and inspired by Lovecraft

From Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator to Color Out of Space, by way of Carpenter's cosmic horror: the H. P. Lovecraft-linked films recommended by Quinta Capa, A Gazeta and Feededigno.

- 39 votes · 11 items
- Jul 14, 2023 · bhframe24
- https://even.best/en/l/4363/the-best-films-based-on-and-inspired-by-lovecraft

## Top 11

1. **Re-Animator (1985)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Stuart Gordon. Herbert West and his serum that brings back the dead.
2. **From Beyond (1986)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Stuart Gordon. A machine that opens perception to other dimensions.
3. **In the Mouth of Madness (1994)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — John Carpenter. A horror writer whose books drive readers mad.
4. **Necronomicon (1993)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Brian Yuzna, Christophe Gans and Shūsuke Kaneko. Three Lovecraft stories.
5. **Color Out of Space (2019)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Richard Stanley. Nicolas Cage and a meteorite that warps everything around it.
6. **Dagon (2001)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Stuart Gordon. A Galician fishing village inspired by The Shadow over Innsmouth.
7. **The Lighthouse (2019)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Robert Eggers. Two isolated lighthouse keepers and madness.
8. **The Call of Cthulhu (2005)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Andrew Leman. A black-and-white silent film, made as if it were from the 1920s.
9. **The Thing (1982)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — John Carpenter. Cosmic horror at an Antarctic base.
10. **Annihilation (2018)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Alex Garland. An expedition into a zone that changes everything that enters it.
11. **Die, Monster, Die! (1965)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Daniel Haller. Boris Karloff and The Colour Out of Space in the sixties.

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