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** Guillermo del Toro (the director of ''Hellboy'' and ''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]'') had a screenplay prepared, although it will be quite a while before anything comes of it, what with [[The Hobbit|one thing]] and [[Frankenstein|another]]. Although it had [[Tom Cruise]] and [[James Cameron]] involved, it was cancelled in light of The Wolfman reboot flopping.
*** The film ''Alien V. Predator'' bears a remarkable similarity to ''At The Mountains of Madness''...
**** John Carpenter's ''[[The Thing (film)|The Thing]]'' is even closer. Indeed, a genealogical connection is plausible: the film is an adaptation of [[John W. Campbell]]'s short story "[[Who Goes There?]]", published in ''[[Astounding Stories]]'' in 1938. Campbell -- who became editor of ''Astounding'' that year -- would surely have been reading it in 1936, when it published ''At the Mountains of Madness''.
* ''The Call of Cthulhu'' -- [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|Cthulhu]] briefly wakes, and fills the dreams of men with madness. The first and best-known Lovecraftian [[Tabletop Games|Tabletop RPG]] is [[Call of Cthulhu|named after it]] and reprints the story in full.
** ''[http://www.cthulhulives.org/toc.html The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society]'' [[Lovecraft on Film|adapted]] this story [http://www.cthulhulives.org/cocmovie/ to film] in 2005, faithful to the original, in the style of a classic 1920s black-and-white silent movie. A must-see.
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* ''[[The Dunwich Horror]]'' -- Invisible abomination terrorises the Massachusetts countryside.
** Filmed in 1970 as a not-entirely-faithful [[Cult Classic]] starring Dean Stockwell and Sandra Dee. ''Yog-Sothoth!''
*** There was also a 2009 remake by the [[
* ''[[The Colour Out of Space]]'' -- A toxic meteorite that's of a colour [[Not of This Earth]] devastates a small farm in Massachusetts. Lovecraft insists upon using the English spelling, as always.
** A big part of the inspiration for the "Weeds" segment (starring self-professed Lovecraft fan [[Stephen King]]) in ''[[Creepshow]]''.
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