If you, like me, were extremely dissapointed when universal pulled the plug on this project please sign the petition to make the movie!
Petition to universal to make At the Mountains of Madness
It's never much fun to see Lovecraft's stories butchered by another bad movie -- there hasn't been a very good one yet from the big motion picture companies. Even though it wasn't explicitly Lovecraft, it would be difficult to top The Thing.
i agree, i still have not seen a good lovecraft movie. but this one had all possibilities to be the first good lovecraft movie. thats why ist so sad that they pulled the plug on it.
in the mouth of madness wasnt all bad, was it?
sorry about my poor writing, this forum doesnt work well with my phone...
Good Lovecraft movies: In The Mouth Of Madness, The Last Lovecraft - The Relic of Cthulhu, The Call Of Cthulhu, and The Whisperer In Darkness.
I also enjoyed The Reanimator for what it was worth... not precisely HPL feel but was entertaining at the time and it still gets quoted occasionally around here.
I am gratefull they pulled the plug on this, i know this is really selfish but after this movie it will be impossible to play the Mountain of Madness RPG campaign wich was released a few month ago in French 
Aarrgghh !!!
Didn't know that.
You ruined my day !!
I was totally behind the movie when Guillermo Del Toro was behind it, because I would love to see his take on it. However, and I may be wrong about this, I heard he left when they told him it had to be PG-13. There is really no way to do a proper telling of the madness involved in a Lovecraft tale with a PG-13 rating.
Cassive said:
I was totally behind the movie when Guillermo Del Toro was behind it, because I would love to see his take on it. However, and I may be wrong about this, I heard he left when they told him it had to be PG-13. There is really no way to do a proper telling of the madness involved in a Lovecraft tale with a PG-13 rating.
While I agree with you on the "It shouldn't be toned down" part, I'm not sure you would need an R rating for MoM... er... Mountains oM. You've got the gore at the campsite, but that could be glossed over by some discretion shots. I don't think the movie would be ireprably damaged by not showing explicitly the gross bodies of dogs and scientists. There's no sex (as with almost all Lovecraftian tales) and I can't remember any cursing, so I think PG-13 is definitely attainable, at least in that story.
Heck, if anything, it should be rated R for overly long periods of describing geology so Lovecraft can show he did his research.
Yeah, I'd agree with you that you could pretty successfully make a Mountains of Madness movie true to form and keep it rated PG-13, though honestly, I probably wouldn't want to subject a 13 year old to a well done depiction of eldritch horror induced insanity.
I guess my response mainly comes from my gut reaction to a film studio requiring a horror movie to be rated PG-13. My general opinion of such a move is that they want to be able to market the movie to a teenage crowd, which I'm fine with sometimes, but not with this movie. Any horror movie directed at teens automatically drains the cerebral part of a horror movie away, and ends up with half dressed teenagers running away from whatever is after them (I admit this is incredibly reactionary and over generalized, but this is what "make it pg-13" means in my brain).
Basically, a Lovecraft movie should not need to be marketed. The people who want to see it will see "Lovecraft" and want to go, providing the movie is done right. If you actually have to SELL it to someone who wasn't interested in seeing it in the first place, you're inevitably going to do the movie wrong.