"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 43 - The Beach House (2019)
Episode 42 - Starfish (2018)
Episode 41 - Lifeforce (1985)
Episode 40 - The Empty Man (2020)
Episode 39 - Lord of Illusions (1995)
Episode 38 - Society (1989)
Episode 36 - Resolution (2012)
Episode 35 - WandaVision (2021)
Episode 34 - Annihilation (2018)
Episode 33 - Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
Episode 32 - Cold Skin (2017)
Episode 31 - Black Mountain Side (2014)
Episode 30 - The Call of Cthulhu (2005) with Andrew Leman & Sean Branney
Episode 29 - The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)
Episode 28 - The Haunted Palace (1963)
Episode 27 - The Crimson Cult (1968)
Episode 26 - In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
Episode 25 - Lovecraft Country Review
Episode 24 - Event Horizon (1997)
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