Recent reports have revealed that the long awaited adaptation of H.P.Lovcraft’s At The Mountains of Madness from Guillermo Del Toro has been put on indefinite hold. This is a sad sad day as Del Toro is a fave of MVP and often cited as the best director working in the horror genre today. Del Toro’s horror output has been sadly non-existent since the 2007 release of Pan’s Labyrinth.
Just this week, MVP was thrilled to discover a new trailer for At The Mountains of Madness – not from Del Toro – but from a group called Cthulhu Films. In the past, Lovecraft adaptations have not fared well as the unspeakable horrors described in Lovecraft’s prose fail to impress when adapted to the big screen. There have been notable exceptions such as From Beyond, Dagon, or Call of Cthulhu – but for the most part, Lovecraft’s horrors are best left unseen. Let’s hope that is not the case with this latest adaptation.
