Prometheus has got me into H.P.Lovecraft

Always been a huge fan of Lovecraft, as a youngster we used to geek away days, weeks, months playing the RPG Call of Cthulhu - inspired by Lovecrafts novels. As a massive Alien fan as well, if SRS has taken a leaf out of Lovecrafts works then this movie should be the ultimate sci-fi horror thrill ride.....Lets just make it adult, give it the R rating it needs and be shocked out of our minds!

snap! I was reading the short story that inspired the movie 'the Un-nameable' the other day. I think its called the strange case of Randolph Carter or something along those lines. He is also a big inspiration to Stephen king too, The Dark tower rocks. I didnt know until recently that Prometheus and indeed Alien, had Lovecraftian inspirations. The mind of Giger is one hell of a crazy place to be, but in my humble opinion, as much as ridley created the movie, and as much as Dan wrote the script etc, Giger is directly responsible for the creature we all know and love, and the jockey and the derelict. Dark, dark, stuff

I checked it out, watched the film, found it impossibly boring, watched because of the connection to Giger...sorry, maybe I missed something there about him, gotta read some of his books I guess.

I am aware of how famous and awesome he is supposedly though, I just haven't caught up to you guys on him yet, got a lot of reading to do now, thanks!

Sparky, 'the un-namable' is low budget rubbish horror at its worst, well almost, lol how NOT to make a movie 101 lol

lol Gotcha, it was aweful...lol. I will read some of his stuff though now, have known about him since I was a kid just never took the time. I read alot too, just not him sadly.

@PerfectOrganism2 - that 'Randolph Carter' story is in there somewhere too. Looking forward to some decent reading. BTW everyone - my pic avatar has disappeared -help!

lovecraft, poe, milton, dante, giger, reznor, barker... thats my interest right there

Lovecraft was the bomb. Not a great technician necessarily, but he had great ideas. Check out his Dream Cycle anthology, which has two (3?) stories on the infamous Mr. Carter.

for all the reading you guys do, it apparently hasn't been too beneficial for your analytical and reasoning abilities. i posit that's an aspect of intelligence completely innate to the individual.

I never read any Lovecraft until seeing these posts, now I've just finished reading At the Mountains of Madness, and have downloaded every other book he has ever written - I plan to read them all. This guy is obviously the godfather or modern science fiction, I just wish I had read his stuff before. I had to laugh when I realized that most of the video games I've played had something in them borrowed from his works, like World of Warcraft for example. Scott should add a note to the beginning or end of Prometheus that acknowledges Lovecraft's influence, as H. R. Giger has with his Necronomicon tribute.