Cinema of the Damned
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Lovecraft CountrySeries
›TV-MA2020 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Wunmi Mosaku
The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.
Gemini Home EntertainmentSeries
›TV-142019 · Mystery, Documentary · 2 seasons · Remy Abode, Remy Abode, Jack
Gemini Home Entertainment is a found-footage–style analog horror web series presented as recovered public-access broadcasts, educational tapes, and emergency alerts from a corrupted media archive. Using lo-fi VHS aesthetics and ominous interruptions, it implies a hidden history of cosmic threats and government cover-ups. The series is widely regarded as one of the most influential examples of analog horror on YouTube.
Creepshow
›R1982 · Horror, Comedy · 120m · Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver
Five grisly tales from a 1950s-style comic, including a murdered father rising from beyond, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.
Necronomicon
›R1993 · Horror · 96m · Jeffrey Combs, Tony Azito, Juan Fernández
H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead and his unwitting release of a monster and his writing of the following horror segments "The Drowned", "The Cold", and "Whispers".
H.P. Lovecraft's Witch House
›2022 · Horror · 82m · Portia Chellelynn, Julie Anne Prescott, Andrea Collins
Graduate student Alice Gilman is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; a historic home with an ominous past. Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, she unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Based on the H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Dreams in the Witch House.
The Dunwich Horror
›R2009 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Griff Furst, Sarah Lieving, Jeffrey Combs
In Louisiana, in the wicked Whateley House, Lavina delivers two babies whose fate is written. Ten years later, three scholars of the occult discover that one page of the “Necronomicon,” the unspeakable book, is missing and the Black Brotherhood has summoned the ancient gate keeper to free legions of evil gods and monsters from the dimension of chaos.