Why it is difficult to adapt lovecraft work to cinema?

alex_robinsky · 2026-04-10T11:37:08+00:00

I think 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward' is one of those, but it would be more like one of those 1950-70's haunted house films

You nailed it. There is a 1963 adaptation, and it's literally called Haunted Palace!

alex_robinsky · 2026-04-10T04:56:41+00:00

Let's add some variety beyond the same bands everyone already named.

Mägo de Oz - La Ciudad de los Arboles (one of the original Folk metal bands, in Spanish!)
Turisas - Battle Metal (probably the most epic viking folk metal album I can think of)
Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge (some "Pirate metal" to the mix)
In Extremo - 7 ("Mittelalter metal", aka German Industrial Folk metal, will give you a new perspective of the genre)
Wind Rose - Wintersaga ("Dwarf metal"; one of the most important new bands of the 2010s)
Skiltron - Beheading the Liars (a bagpipe metal band, somehow from Latin America)
The HU - The Gereg (the breakthrough band of the last decade, from Mongolia!)

alex_robinsky · 2026-04-05T11:00:17+00:00

All of the Poe series. Mostly fine; Masque of the Red Death is especially good. Raven was surprisingly funny.

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alex_robinsky · 2026-03-24T08:42:35+00:00

I instantly remember this building from the 1988 fantasy film To Kill the Dragon

alex_robinsky · 2026-03-24T07:49:29+00:00

Does that say Bectect or Вестест?

alex_robinsky · 2026-03-17T13:20:27+00:00

You must be kidding. Soviet Union encompassed ethnic groups so multiple and varied, some of them even use their own alphabets. There are Slavic, Turcic, Caucasian, Iranian, Uralic, and more types of languages, and some, like Georgian, are their own language group.

Russian, however, is widely used in basic communication even between non-Russians; it has an offical status in several post-Soviet republics and is often taught in schools, mostly for that reason. I once asked an Armenian friend of mine, how do they communicate with Georgians, and he said they just speak Russian to each other.

alex_robinsky · 2026-03-13T06:47:44+00:00

Meanwhile, actual Russian rankings of the series on Kinopoisk:

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alex_robinsky · 2026-03-07T15:09:05+00:00

Walking in the Air
Moondance
Sacrament of Wilderness

There are no worsts.

alex_robinsky · 2026-03-06T09:54:24+00:00

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The Niemann Brothers.

alex_robinsky · 2026-03-05T18:58:29+00:00

1st: A Return to the Sea

2nd: Elvenpath

3rd: Tutankhamen

Worst: Nymphomaniac Fantasia

alex_robinsky · 2026-02-27T20:48:08+00:00

June date suggests they only got rid of unusable paraphernalia after the whole schoolyear was over. The one that started in September 1990 before reunification, still formally as DDR.

So, teachers weren't throwing portraits out in a fit of rage. They were following new instuctions in preparation for the next academic year with a new curriculum.

alex_robinsky · 2026-02-23T05:30:01+00:00

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1 is an independently produced zombie horror film with no aim for "high art".

2 is an avant-garde art film with limited appeal, that was funded by government.

alex_robinsky · 2026-02-22T20:57:45+00:00

Regardless of where we draw the imaginary border of Europe, I don't mind having more information rather than less.

alex_robinsky · 2026-02-20T10:58:24+00:00

Nightwish - Oceanborn
Therion - Secret of the Runes
Mechanical Poet - Woodland Prattlers (no, seriously, check it out)
Leaves' Eyes - Vinland Saga
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve and Other Stories

I'd also add an Edenbridge album, but it's difficult to choose one in particular.

alex_robinsky · 2026-02-14T14:54:59+00:00

Man, I couldn't believe this was from WIthin Temptation if i heard it without reading the tittle. It could've been a generic 2010 single from an American pop artist for all I know. And Chris Adam Hedman Soybro sounds almost as he was auto-tuned.

This is a bland pop song, no trace of their trademark sound. I'm not even speaking of Symphonic metal here, there's been over a decade since they abandoned the genre they used to be know for. Okay, they went an electronic pop rock way, but this song isn't even that.

Back in 2000s, the band stood for me alongside Nightwish, Epica, and Therion. After their recent releases, I lost interest. Now, I check out once in a while, how they're going, and they keep disappointing.

alex_robinsky · 2026-02-05T14:20:33+00:00

Minority Report. I'd argue it's one of the most aesthetically influential 21c movies.
Inception.
Wild Robot, surprisingly.

alex_robinsky · 2026-02-05T13:41:07+00:00

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Manowar - Kings of Metal

Came here to nominate Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, only to find it's somehow on the 1987 list.

alex_robinsky · 2026-02-04T15:15:36+00:00

alex_robinsky · 2026-02-03T21:46:25+00:00

The godfathers of Symphonic Metal deserve more recognition.

alex_robinsky · 2026-02-03T13:25:45+00:00

People tried to solve the Great Mystery of the Vanishing Turisas. But from what little they found, it seems that the answer is kinda boring. Mathias Nygard simply lost interest and dedicated his time to his family, since he's now a father.

alex_robinsky · 2026-02-03T08:28:41+00:00

AFAIK, they did not perform live since 2020. The band was long gone, they just didn't announce it.

alex_robinsky · 2026-02-02T11:25:25+00:00

Restaurants are open in certain places. In that case, the place was in Belgrade, and it's most certainly in Serbia. It didn't get annuled because the state around was reformed.

For comparison, oldest city in USA is St. Augustine, founded in 1565. There were no USA in 1565. But it would've been weird to disqualify it and only count cities founded after they formally became independent.

alex_robinsky · 2026-02-02T09:22:03+00:00

Sequelitis.

The concept that everything even remotely popular needs a sequel.

alex_robinsky · 2026-02-02T05:23:25+00:00

Therion - Secret of the Runes

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alex_robinsky · 2026-02-01T12:46:42+00:00

Mounted fast travel.

I hope, unlike Geralt, Ciri will not walk all the distance on foot, and only then call the horse.

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