Quote from: LimpingFish on Thu 28/07/2011 02:42:02On topic, the problem with adapting Lovecraft is trying to make his "unfathomable" horrors a reality. Once you see Cthulhu as a shonky puppet, it sucks all the mystique from the mythos. Re-Animator works because it's basically a riff on Frankenstein. From Beyond gives us parasitic creatures, rather than cyclopean nightmares. Even Dagon works, because we never see the titular deity on screen (just a couple of randy tentacles). Dagon is actually based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth, which, like Herbert West-Reanimator and From Beyond, seems to lend itself better to cinematic adaptation, rather than the more cosmic of Lovecraft's creations.
You put Cthulhu up there, and he basically becomes Godzilla.
There's some fantastic depictions of Lovecraft's creations out there though - one of my favourites is SOTA's sculpt of Nyarlathotep - simply amazing!
On the subject of Cthulhu, we seriously contemplated adapting 'The Call of Cthulhu' for Arkham Sanitarium but decided against it in the end because we didn't want his first 'proper' screen outing to be anything less than perfect - right now, we simply don't have the resources to do him justice. Maybe in the future though...