Hellboy vs. Lovecraft

[Anathema]

There has been some debate to this movie between my husband and I. Am I the only person that can see some of the similarities between this movie and some of the creatures/idea concepts from H.P. Lovecraft's stories?

[Joey Deadcat]

The film is an adaptation of the Hellboy comics(actually, the first series, Seeds of Destruction) written and drawn by Mike Mignola. Lovecraftian fiction is one of the many influences (as well as pulp adventures, mythology & folklore, and Jack Kirby) Mignola uses in the different Hellboy stories. It was intentional that those elements figured into the film.

[phee]

In the Commentary of the Movie Del Toro (The Director) talks quite a bit about his love for Lovecraft

[Anathema]

In the Commentary of the Movie Del Toro (The Director) talks quite a bit about his love for Lovecraft

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ah. see i don't have the dvd of it. i just eep catching it on the movie chanels on cable. Me and my husband (who hasn't read Lovecraft) have gotten into one to many discussions about it and it's been driving me crazy.