Outsiders: How To Adapt H.P. Lovecraft In the 21st Century
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Thanks so much to everyone who contributed notes and advice to this project. I'll put up a higher-rez copy of the BTS stream we did last night later this evening :)
Outsiders: How To Adapt H.P. Lovecraft In the 21st Century (YouTube)
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Hey, I commented this on YouTube, but I figure you put enough care into your mental health that you likely don't read those comments often. So I'm signing up to my first patreon because I've thoroughly enjoyed your work and I hope you might see this. You came tantalizingly close to talking about "Get Out" you even had a frame of Jordan Peele's face during the Oscars. It is such a frightening variation of H.P. Lovecraft's fear of the other that it deserves mentioning. And while Lovecraft's fears were baseless and ignorant Peele's are legitimate especially in the developing political climate of the U.S. Anyway, love you, love your work.
I keep coming back to this video over and over again. It's deeply touching, not only because I relate (loving Lovecraft, bisexuality, etc.), but also because it describes so well a lot of the struggle I've had as an adult with reconciling my life as an "outsider" and who I am with the problematic art that was emotionally important to me and my personal development. Thank you for this.
What makes you think The Thing was influenced by At the Mountains of Madness? The book it's based on was published 2 years after At the Mountains, but neither the author nor John Carpenter have said there's intentional influence. If I'm misremembering what you said in the video, apologies.
'Who goes there?' was first published in '38... 'At the mountains of madness' in '36... 'The thing from another world' was released in '51... John Carpenter's 'The Thing' in '82. So while JC may not have been influenced by Campbell... Campbell MAY (and I say MAY) have been influenced by HP. We can only speculate.
Hey Hbomb, have you read The Doom That Came To Gotham? Lovecraftian Batman, be interested to know what you made of that one
I’m in the middle of playing Night in the Woods right now, and I can’t remember the last time I was this excited for someone’s take on a video game!
An absolutely interesting look into things I had never considered about Lovecraft's work. Not the racism thing, I totally understood that one. But the stuff about Othering I never really considered. I'm glad I'm subscribed to you.
This was a great video to watch.
I really loved this. Thank you.
Talk about feeling like an outsider I'm not even listed: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/SERctof.png" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://i.imgur.com/SERctof.png</a>
I'm not angry. Just disappointed. But, more seriously, is there something I need to do to fix this?
I tried looking through the Youtube comments and the Discord but couldn't find the idea I just thought up in the shower, so here goes. Bram Stoker? More like Gramsci Stirner!
Writer David Wong is in the comments and so far no one noticed. Great video
Loved this, amazing work!
Holy shit how did I miss Nyx Fears, thanks!
feelin' pretty famous getting into the credits
So proud of you <3
Yet another great video Hbomb! Anyway I already stated it in Discord and Twitter, but my name on credit page seem to have ended with invalid character as it stated "Mario Babi?". It should be "Mario Babić". But if in future "ć" is still invalid character, "c" should suffice. As in "Mario Babic". Otherwise, glad to support ya buddy!
So great! Really fantastic!
Bravo my guy. this was a fantastic video
Thanks for fixing the aspect ratio of those film clips. That was slowly driving me crazy in the rough cut version of this video.
Top notch again. Also, big thank you for promoting Nyx Fears. I've been binging her vids all day!
HP Lovecraft haunts me because I get the sense he was great at writing horror BECAUSE he was so scared of the world, and of everyone who was different than him. He turned a gross personality flaw (one so severe that it bordered on neurosis) into a nice creative career, and I sometimes fear that's what we're all doing.
Very nice
