The Lovecraft Adaptations in Cabinet of Curiosities

  My wife and I recently had a baby, so my television time is limited these days, but I made sure to check out the H.P. Lovecraft adaptations in Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.

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The Pulpy Prehistory of the The Thing IV – The Thing

Nothing reveals an artist’s talent quite like telling a story which has been told before. Lovecraft began a theme of alien Antarctic horror, and Campbell spun those elements into a new narrative. The Thing from

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The Pulpy Prehistory of the The Thing III – The Thing from Another World

Where John Carpenter fans might find Who Goes There? familiar, like coming home after a long absence, its 1951 adaptation is more like viewing the story through a funhouse mirror: anything recognizable is distorted, and

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The Pulpy Prehistory of The Thing II – Who Goes There?

In his long journey home, Odysseus was forced to pass between the fearsome monster, Scylla, and the vast, ship-swallowing whirlpool, Charybdis. A similar danger confronts anyone tasked with describing the origins of John W. Campbell’s

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