Savvy and sensational, you've never seen Lovecraft like this; jacoboller reviews HBO's LovecraftCountry
, an adaptation of Matt Ruff’s book of the same name, belongs more in a series of Weird Tales issues than in the current understanding of H.P. Lovecraft’s tentacle-ridden boogiemen, non-Euclidean geometry, and otherwise unknowable Old Ones. It’s a true pulp story, collected by showrunner Misha Green straight from the mill and bound with an exciting cast and setting to enrich its adventure. Savvy and sensational, you’ve never seen Lovecraft like this.
That Chosen One formula with familiar notes—a call from the incredible to someone lodged in the mundane—is undermined from the opening scene. A bold sci-fi wartime nightmare demystifies cartoonish takes on violence by colorizing its black-and-white palette, while ironic narration from Alfred E. Green’sintroduces “an American boy and a dream that is truly American.
is either high-octane flashy or pure pragmatism in its visuals. With a joyful amount of viscera and gore, these shocks to the system never failed to leave a Tom Savini-loving grin on my face. The Lovecraftian crutch phrase “sloughs off” has never been so tangible. Yuck.
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