![]() This should perhaps not be a big surprise-after all, this same period has seen the average person go from being dimly aware of only a handful of Marvel superheroes, to likely being able to recite the names and powers of dozens of them, and our biggest Hollywood blockbusters revolve entirely around geek material that was once the stereotypical stuff of poor losers being walloped by cinematic bullies. ![]() Lovecraft were still the stuff of deep nerd cliché, a sort of “secret handshake” among horror geeks and 1980s horror movie buffs.Ī few decades later, awareness of the author’s life and his most famous creations has been utterly transformed, and the average person walking down the street now has a good chance of recognizing the name “Lovecraft,” or even that of Cthulhu. Some 20 years ago, the collected works of H.P. Nobody was seeking Lovecraftian horror movies. ![]() ![]() Horror fiction devotees could have told you about Lovecraft’s pantheon of elder gods and otherworldly beings at that point, but the average cinemagoer had little to no familiarity at the time with any of them, Cthulhu or otherwise. Lovecraft in the early 2000s, the man was still considered a fairly obscure figure in American pop culture, if not literary history. ![]() It’s sort of odd to think that when I first began reading the cosmic horror fiction of author H.P. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |