H.P. Lovecraft Movies: Release Order
H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic horror has inspired numerous film adaptations since the 1960s, ranging from Roger Corman's gothic productions to modern independent features. This watch list includes all feature-length films directly adapted from Lovecraft's stories, excluding television productions and short films.
The adaptations vary wildly in quality and approach. Many films take significant liberties with their source material, relocating settings and modernizing themes, while others attempt meticulous fidelity to Lovecraft's prose. Notable patterns include multiple adaptations of The Colour Out of Space, and the successful Re-Animator trilogy that transformed its protagonist Herbert West into a recurring anti-hero.
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The Haunted Palace
A warlock who was burned at the stake returns from the dead to possess his great grandson's body and seek revenge against the descendants of those who executed him.
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Die, Monster, Die!
A young man visits his fiancé's estate and discovers her scientist father has found a meteorite that emits dangerous radiation, causing plants to grow to enormous sizes and threatening everyone nearby.
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Curse of the Crimson Altar
A man searches for his missing brother at a remote country house, where he encounters friendly hosts but senses an ominous presence connected to the legend of Lavinia Morley, the Black Witch of Greymarsh.
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The Dunwich Horror
When a student goes missing near the mysterious Whateley manor, occult expert Dr. Henry Armitage investigates and uncovers a dark family secret involving ancient evil forces.
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Re-Animator
A brilliant but obsessed medical student conducts secret experiments to bring the dead back to life, with horrifying consequences that spiral beyond his control.
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From Beyond
When scientists use a powerful machine called the Resonator to stimulate the sixth sense, they accidentally open a doorway to a hostile parallel dimension filled with deadly creatures.
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The Curse
A religious farmer and his family face a terrifying supernatural curse after a mysterious glowing object crashes on their property during a storm. As a real estate developer pressures local farmers to sell their land, the Hayes family must confront an otherworldly horror that threatens their community.
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The Unnamable
Students from Miskatonic University spend the night in a house believed to be haunted for 300 years, where they encounter the terrifying creature that has plagued the Winthrop family for generations.
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Bride of Re-Animator
Dr. West continues his twisted experiments with reanimating the dead, this time attempting to create new life using the heart of his assistant's deceased girlfriend.
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The Resurrected
A wealthy scientist discovers an ancient diary and uses human remains in his terrifying quest to achieve immortality.
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Necronomicon
This H.P. Lovecraft anthology follows the author as he researches the mysterious Book of The Dead, unleashing supernatural horrors that inspire three chilling tales of cosmic terror.
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Lurking Fear
In the abandoned town of Leffert's Corners, grotesque creatures emerge from beneath the local cemetery to terrorize the few remaining residents. When a group of townspeople attempts to destroy the monster-infested graveyard, their plan is complicated by the arrival of violent thieves searching for buried treasure.
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Castle Freak
When John Reilly inherits a castle in Italy, he and his family discover they're not alone—the ancient fortress harbors a terrifying creature with an insatiable thirst for blood.
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Bleeders
A man suffering from a mysterious disease travels to a remote island with his girlfriend, seeking a cure where his family once lived. He discovers his supposedly dead relatives are still alive, hiding in an underground community.
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Dagon
After a boating accident strands them in a remote Spanish fishing village, a young couple discovers the town harbors a dark secret involving the worship of an ancient sea god. As night falls, they must fight for survival against the village's monstrous inhabitants.
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Beyond Re-Animator
Dr. Herbert West continues his forbidden reanimation experiments while imprisoned, until a new prison doctor and someone from his past threaten to expose his deadly research.
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The Shunned House
Based on H.P. Lovecraft's tale, this horror film follows a paranormal journalist and his skeptical girlfriend as they investigate a dark, isolated chateau where three people died across different time periods. The interconnected stories of these deaths gradually reveal the house's sinister past.
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Strange Aeons: The Thing on the Doorstep
A talented poet begins exhibiting disturbing personality changes after marrying a mysterious woman, leading him to confide in his professor friend about his wife's sinister supernatural abilities and her father's questionable death. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's tale, this psychological horror explores themes of possession and identity.
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Cool Air
A struggling screenwriter renting a room in a rundown mansion discovers his mysterious upstairs neighbor is a doctor conducting strange experiments. When the writer suffers a heart attack and seeks the doctor's help, he's cured but at a terrible cost.
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Beyond the Wall of Sleep
A young psychiatric intern becomes obsessed with a mysterious mountain man imprisoned for murdering his family, believing the patient harbors a dark supernatural force. As bodies pile up and his sanity deteriorates, the intern risks everything to unlock the inmate's hidden power.
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Cthulhu
A Seattle professor returns to his Oregon hometown to settle his mother's estate, where he reconnects with a childhood friend and uncovers disturbing secrets about his father's cult that threaten apocalyptic consequences.
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Colour from the Dark
Pietro and Lucia live peacefully on an isolated farm until they accidentally release a strange alien force from their well. This sinister color gradually consumes their land and minds, bringing terror and destruction to their once-tranquil lives.
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The Dunwich Horror
When scholars discover a missing page from the dreaded Necronomicon, they must confront an ancient evil threatening to unleash supernatural horrors upon the world. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale, this supernatural horror follows the dark legacy of the Whateley family and their connection to otherworldly forces.

The Color Out of Space
When Jonathan Davis searches for his missing father in the German forests where he was once stationed after WWII, he uncovers a sinister mystery rooted in the past. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic horror tale, this film explores the dark secrets hidden deep in the Swabian-Franconian woods.

The Whisperer in Darkness
A folklore professor investigating strange creature legends in remote Vermont hills discovers a terrifying truth behind the mysterious stories.
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The Thing on the Doorstep
Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story, this psychological horror follows Daniel Upton as he investigates his friend Edward's disturbing behavioral changes after Edward becomes involved with a mysterious hypnotist named Asenath Waite. As unexplainable events unfold, Daniel must determine whether his friend is suffering from madness or something far more sinister.
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Color Out of Space
When a meteorite crashes into their remote New England farm, the Gardner family discovers it carries an otherworldly force that begins mutating everything it touches. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale, this cosmic horror follows their terrifying encounter with an alien presence that defies comprehension.
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The Deep Ones
A married couple's romantic getaway at a beachside Airbnb turns sinister when they discover their peculiar neighbors are part of a mysterious cult worshipping an ancient sea god.
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H.P. Lovecraft's Witch House
Graduate student Alice Gilman seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house while researching alternate dimensions, but unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Dreams in the Witch House.

Suitable Flesh
A psychiatrist's life descends into chaos when she becomes entangled with a supernatural curse that brings gruesome deaths and ancient horrors into her world.
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