"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
- H.P. Lovecraft
"Adding a Lovecraft quote to your film doesn't make your film Lovecraftian."
- The Cast of Cthulhu
So, we're talking about The Endless, a film that pays lip service to Lovecraft, but we're also talking about so much more than that, so check out the timecode notes below if you want to get straight to the discussion of a film that raises more questions about its world in its attempt to give us answers and that fundamentally misunderstands the term "Lovecraftian" (if that's even what the filmmakers were intending in the first place).
We don't get into that discussion until 42:03 though as we first spend some time to encourage listeners to pick up Battleship Pretension's 101 Best Movies of the 2010s at 1:13, discuss our thoughts on #TheSnyderCut at 3:45, and discuss the horrific allegations against Richard Stanley and why we support his "canceling" (and also why we hate that term) at 19:18.
For more information on AAPI organizations to support in the wake of the horrible actions of a white supremacist, check out this link and let's all contribute to stopping Asian hate.
Episode 81 - Interview with S.T. Joshi
Episode 80 - Interview with Sam Liu
Episode 79 - Lily C.A.T. (1987)
Episode 78 - Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023)
Episode 77- Dark Sea (2013)
Episode 76 - The Deep Ones (2020)
Episode 75 - Harbinger Down (2015)
Episode 74 - Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993)
Episode 73 - The Thing (2011)
Episode 72 - Prometheus (2012)
Episode 71- Cthulhu Mansion (1992)
Episode 70 - Colour From the Dark (2003)
Episode 69 - The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009)
Episode 68 - Apostle (2018)
Episode 67 - Dreams in the Witch House (2022)
Episode 66 - Pickman’s Model (2022)
Episode 65 - Hellraiser (2022)
Episode 63 - Interview with H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival Co-Director Gwen Callahan
Episode 63 - Glorious (2022)
Episode 62 - The Innsmouth Book Club
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