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Lovecraft Through the Lens

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Lovecraft Through the Lens game quiz
"The works of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft have often been described as unfilmable - but it hasn't stopped people from trying to film them. Here are a few questions about some of those attempts, successful or not."

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1. "Die Monster Die", which starred Boris Karloff and told of a scientist who uses a strange meteorite in experiments to enhance growth, was based on which short story by Lovecraft?
    The Colour Out of Space
    The Outsider
    The Thing On the Doorstep
    The Shadow Out of Time


2. Legendary schlock film-maker Stuart Gordon often drew on Lovecraft's work for his films. One of his most popular is "Re-Animator", the tale of a young medical student who is determined to overcome death itself. Who played the 'hero', Herbert West, in this and two sequels?
    David Warner ("Titanic", "Wallander")
    Kyle Maclachlan ("Blue Velvet", "Dune")
    Dean Stockwell ("Quantum Leap", "Air Force One")
    Jeffrey Combs ("The Frighteners", "House on Haunted Hill")


3. In the 1970s a film version was made of the story "The Dunwich Horror", in which the son of a terrible deity from beyond the stars tries to summon his father to our world. Who played the role of the semi-human sorcerer, Wilbur Whateley?
    Mark Kinsey Stephenson ("The Unnameable", "Domino")
    David Warner ("Time After Time", "The Omen" 1976)
    Jon Finch ("Kingdom of Heaven", "The Lurking Fear")
    Dean Stockwell ("Air Force One", "Quantum Leap")


4. Roger Corman, known for his many adaptations of the works of Edgar Allen Poe, also dabbled his toe in the Cthulhu Mythos. Which of his films was based on Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", in which a young man is possessed by his ancestor?
    The Masque of the Red Death
    The Haunted Palace
    The Terror
    Not of This Earth


5. In the comedy movie "The Last Lovecraft", H.P.'s unfortunate descendant is told he is the only one who can stand between mankind and horrors battled and documented by his ancestor. Who plays Jeff, the Last Lovecraft?
    Devin McGinn ("Unicorn City", "Crash Course With Shaun White")
    Josh Zuckerman ("Sex Drive", "Feast")
    Seth Green ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Goldmember")
    Kyle Davis ("Friday the 13th (2009)", "Dexter")


6. "The Unnameable", a monster flick based on a short story just seven pages long, was enough of a hit to spark a sequel, "The Unnameable Returns". In it, a group of college kids come across a hideous creature which has been trapped in a certain location since the 18th century. Where do they find it?
    The Whateley farm, Dunwich
    The Miskatonic University Library
    The old Winthrop house
    The Arkham Sanatarium


7. What veteran director (who also directed "Stuck" and "Space Truckers") went to Spain to create a movie based on the story "Dagon", in which the cult of a terrible marine god is uncovered in a decaying port town?
    Roger Corman
    Stuart Gordon
    Brian Yuzna
    Guillermo del Toro


8. Jeffrey Combs made his mark in Lovecraftian circles as Herbert West, the famous re-animator - but who did he play in the 1990s portmanteau movie "Necronomicon" (in which a man finds the famously evil book guarded by monks, and reads from it several unpleasant tales)?
    Henry Armitage
    H.P. Lovecraft
    Randolph Carter
    Wilbur Whateley


9. Which of these films is NOT inspired by or based on the works of Lovecraft?
    Nightbreed
    From Beyond
    The Resurrected
    Pickman's Muse


10. Even films not directly derived from Lovecraft tip the hat to the master. Which blockbuster film opened on a black screen on which appeared a quote from "De Vermis Mysteriis", one of the volumes of evil lore closely associated with the Cthulhu Mythos? The film also featured Nazi occultists, Rasputin, and the demon Sammael.
    Cloverfield
    Shutter Island
    Predators
    Hellboy


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Compiled May 21 13