What Lovecraft story would you like to see made into a movie

[Andrew]

Wasn't "The Shadow over Innsmouth" what they based most of the movie version of Dagon on? or am I thinking of another story?

"Dagon" is probably about 60% "The Shadow Over Innsmouth."  There is a little bit of "Dagon" in it and the rest, I guess, is creative additions.  Its not bad at all.  I don't think it is as good a movie as some other Lovecraft-inspired films, but I'd definitely recommend it to anyone.  It's above the middle of the pack.

[RCMerchant]

 I read a story years ago in a Lovecraft collection called "the TOMB and other tales"  about an astronaut on Venus...-lost in some weird maze...I'll be damned if I remember the title...but karma to any body who can! That would make a great movie-if done by the right director.

[Andrew]

I read a story years ago in a Lovecraft collection called "the TOMB and other tales"  about an astronaut on Venus...-lost in some weird maze...I'll be damned if I remember the title...but karma to any body who can! That would make a great movie-if done by the right director.

In the Walls of Eryx.  It is one of his stories that stands out for being more science fiction focused.  That would be a pretty good one and a tale of helplessness and despair.

[Shadow]

It strikes me that the the Masters of Horror series, with the hour long time limits for each movie/episode, would be the perfect place to adapt a Lovecraft story.

[RCMerchant]

I read a story years ago in a Lovecraft collection called "the TOMB and other tales"  about an astronaut on Venus...-lost in some weird maze...I'll be damned if I remember the title...but karma to any body who can! That would make a great movie-if done by the right director.

In the Walls of Eryx.  It is one of his stories that stands out for being more science fiction focused.  That would be a pretty good one and a tale of helplessness and despair.

THANK YOU!!!! That story has stuck in my head for YEARS!!! I read it in about-gee-1974-and not since...and it still stands out in my mind as a creepy,claustropbic nightmare!!!!     

[Allhallowsday]

The bit in Creepshow with Stephen King sprouting moss also owes something to the story.

Doesn't everything STEPHEN KING has written owe something to another writer...?     Frankly, any number of his stories and novels are exceedingly close to well-known, and obscure, Horror writers (one thing to be said of KING, he's well-read...)  That doesn't mean I didn't like several of his books (I think The Dead Zone and Misery are extremely well written).

[nshumate]

Wasn't "The Shadow over Innsmouth" what they based most of the movie version of Dagon on? or am I thinking of another story?

No, you're right.  There were some elements of the story "Dagon," but mostly it was an adaptation of "Innsmouth" (a story Stuart Gordon had been trying to film for almost 20 years).

[Neville]

Wasn't "The Shadow over Innsmouth" what they based most of the movie version of Dagon on? or am I thinking of another story?

True.