10 Things That Deserve Great Movie Adaptations

H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos is arguably the most influential work in modern horror. It has inspired countless authors, artists and filmmakers, and its influence can be felt in everything from Silent Hill to True Detective. While there have been several films directly based on these stories, from Stuart Gordon's Spanish-language Dagon to the 2005 silent film The Call of Cthulhu, nothing has quite captured the true wonder of Lovecraft's insanity-inducing dark deities.

We've yet to see Cthulhu fully realised on the big screen. When the first teaser for Cloverfield dropped, people speculated that it could be a story based on the Cthulhu mythos. Sadly, that was not to be, but somewhere down the line, we need to see the most iconic and feared monster in modern literature appear in a movie.

Whether it's a direct adaptation of one of Lovecraft's stories (or indeed one of his disciples, August Derleth or Clark Ashton Smith) or a brand new story set in that universe, horror cinema is crying out for more weird fiction. 2016's highly underrated The Void truly captured the feeling of Lovecraft's tales, but was obviously not part of the mythos.

Lovecraft wrote about the things that terrify us most; isolation, insanity, unknowable abominations existing just outside of our reality. It's a horror goldmine, and one that has not been fully explored. There's a whole genre of revolutionary film making ready to be brought to our screens, if only someone with the skill and inclination would grab hold of it.