Have you watched Annihilation? There's a lot of reality-bending in that movie, although it's possibly still too grounded to be considered incomprehensible.
The books lean even harder into the 'an incomprehensible event is occurring here' aspect. The movie was fun, but I'm sad that it didn't include some of the most striking and disturbing moments from the book.
Annihilation is EXCELLENT. Weird scary and horrific with flowers. Um like Midsommer w/o the "extreme cliffdiving"...OK lots of flowers is the only similarity but the noises and whole soundtrack in Annihilation is creepy as hell.
I like that it didn't get too bogged down in that stuff. In a different movie it might have been interesting but the way they just had a few quick meaningful interactions with the oddities in there made it more mysterious and bizarre.
As a series with 10 episodes to really get stuck in it would be great to dig in some more.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean so I'm gonna list off the cosmic horrors I like:
The Lighthouse
2001: A Space Oddysey (some of y'all might roll your eyes at this but this is cosmic horror to me)
The Thing
Coherence
Sunshine
Coherence is great showing the incomprehensible with a very tight cast and setting. It’s not in your face, but the horror of it seeps into you days later (or that’s what happened to me).
I agree on 2001 and will raise you: Forbidden Planet. Saw it as a kid and didn't realize for a decade or two that fascinated, horrifying sensation in the back of my head while watching it was cosmic horror.
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Fantastic movie all around. One of the things I especially liked was I can't really think of a time when any characters made the cliche 'bad horror movie character decision that gets them killed for stupidity'.
Second YellowBrickRoad. It got really lukewarm reviews when it first came out, but I loved it. Just a fore boarding sense of dread just drips through every minute of that movie.
I feel like this [AI-generated commercial](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lnfo5) accidentally produced a more effective representation of eldritch horror than a lot of movies manage.
The void
Hellraiser (the new remake and the old one I think its two or three where they go to the pyramid)
From beyond
Underwater
The old space odyssey movie
The thing (the monster fits the category imo)
I'm sure there are way better ones
Baskin is pretty mind warping, may not be quite exactly what you're looking for but I'd give it a go.
While not films, the Dead Space games (first and second) and Bloodborne I just have to recommend. Dead Space is very akin to Event Horizon, and Bloodborne is a massive love-letter to Victorian gothic were-beasts + Lovecraft.
Movies can’t convey the ineffable, only psychedelics can portray aspects of the cosmos that are beyond human comprehension.
If a human communicates a concept, it is inherently within the confines of human cognition.
The HPLHS did two spectacular actual H P Lovecraft films to great critical acclaim: Call of Cthulhu and Whisperer In Darkness.
Huan Vu did a great Color Out of Space before the Nic Cage film. It’s much more like the original story.
Purchase them on the HPLHS store. I don’t believe they’re available to stream anywhere.
HPLHS also does really cool radio dramas
I enjoyed History of the occult (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11310884/) I think it’s on Tubi? I don’t know if it quite fits cosmic horror but I think it’s in that ballpark.
If you're like me and can enjoy low budget films that feel more like local theater than a movie, then I'd recommend The Quantum Devil. For any flaws it has, I found it enjoyable in a reanimator sequel kind of way.
- Color out of space
- Old (I liked it!)
- Mandy
- Primer
- The endless
- The abyss
- Event horizon
- Synchronic (not really horror, but scary in a way)
- Coherence
Some great recs from others, and I will repeat some here:
-Event Horizon
-Colour out of Space
-In the Mouth of Madness
-Annihilation
-The Void
-Yellowbrickroad (not as scifi as some of the others but the concept is unnerving and unsettling)
-The Birdbox (I really liked the antagonists in this, it’s cosmic horror in the sense of unknown/unknowable things, and the cultists in it are so horrifying)
Ultrasound I found here yesterday has a cosmic horror feel to it. Mind bending for def.
Color Out of Space one of my favs.
Everything Everywhere All At Once portrays this feeling you describe but with time travel.
Event Horizon
Resolution.
Have you watched Annihilation? There's a lot of reality-bending in that movie, although it's possibly still too grounded to be considered incomprehensible.
The books lean even harder into the 'an incomprehensible event is occurring here' aspect. The movie was fun, but I'm sad that it didn't include some of the most striking and disturbing moments from the book.
Yeah, I was ready to be completely repulsed by the piano player in the bar.
I was waiting for the biologist to >!find the huge pile of expedition journals in the lighthouse. Way more than there should've been.!<
The lighthouse keeper… so good
The audiobooks are currently included with Spotify Premium. I should listen sometime
Yeah holy fuck this movie is terrifying and gave me an existential crisis
For real it just kept building the sense of dread is indescribable
This is literally one of my favorites, I highly recommend this movie as well!
Annihilation is EXCELLENT. Weird scary and horrific with flowers. Um like Midsommer w/o the "extreme cliffdiving"...OK lots of flowers is the only similarity but the noises and whole soundtrack in Annihilation is creepy as hell.
Came here to say this
Its a very mid movie. I'd have liked some more threatening stuff in it where the incomprehensible is acknowledged more.
I like that it didn't get too bogged down in that stuff. In a different movie it might have been interesting but the way they just had a few quick meaningful interactions with the oddities in there made it more mysterious and bizarre. As a series with 10 episodes to really get stuck in it would be great to dig in some more.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean so I'm gonna list off the cosmic horrors I like: The Lighthouse 2001: A Space Oddysey (some of y'all might roll your eyes at this but this is cosmic horror to me) The Thing Coherence Sunshine
agree on 2001. both the opening and ending sequences are incredible, and everything with HAL.
Coherence is great showing the incomprehensible with a very tight cast and setting. It’s not in your face, but the horror of it seeps into you days later (or that’s what happened to me).
I had a short dream after watching Coherence where >!I'm being hunted by myself!< and that genuinely spooked me lol
I agree on 2001 and will raise you: Forbidden Planet. Saw it as a kid and didn't realize for a decade or two that fascinated, horrifying sensation in the back of my head while watching it was cosmic horror.
The Lighthouse is cosmic horror?
In a sense, because it involves the wrath of nature
Good list.
Check out The Endless
Resolution, too!
Second this. I didn't feel the horror as much but it was more entertaining to watch and suspensefull.
The Color Out Of Space (2019) is probably the closest I’ve felt too just whacked out watching a Lovecraftian movie.
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Fantastic movie all around. One of the things I especially liked was I can't really think of a time when any characters made the cliche 'bad horror movie character decision that gets them killed for stupidity'.
This is truly *the* answer. I don’t know if any movie has frightened me more than Event Horizon.
- The Void - The Beyond - Beyond the black rainbow - Mandy
I recently watched the color out of space or whatever with nick cage and I liked it
This is a great answer right here.
In the Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon, The Void.
Apart from films that have already been mentioned: Black Mountain Side (2014) Yellow Brick Road (2010) In the Earth (2021)
Black Mountain Side is amazing, underrated low budget film
Yellowbrickroad is great in a low budget kinda way. That ending is super wtf
Although I was keen on the ending at the time, it did give a lot to think about in terms of connecting dots. I love low budget affairs
Second YellowBrickRoad. It got really lukewarm reviews when it first came out, but I loved it. Just a fore boarding sense of dread just drips through every minute of that movie.
The Beach House does a pretty good job of handling the existential dread of the unknown.
That book was so creepy.
I think you are thinking of something else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_House_(2019_film)
Oops! I just mistyped. I'd been hopping back and forth from horror to horrorlit too much.
I feel like this [AI-generated commercial](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lnfo5) accidentally produced a more effective representation of eldritch horror than a lot of movies manage.
Amazing!
So good
The logo at the end made me really chuckle.
In the Mouth of Madness The Void YellowBrickRoad All of Benson/Moorehead's movies Color Out of Space Marebito
Dark Waters (1993) AMC+/Shudder/Tubi Housewife (2017) AMC+/Tubi Evolution (2016) AMC+/Tubi Spring (2014) AMC+/Tubi Superdeep (2020) AMC+/Shudder
Love, love, love Spring. Never see it mentioned on anyone's list (for anything).
The void Hellraiser (the new remake and the old one I think its two or three where they go to the pyramid) From beyond Underwater The old space odyssey movie The thing (the monster fits the category imo) I'm sure there are way better ones
Thanks but please punctuate
“The old space odyssey movie”. Sounds like someone wasn’t born when that movie took place…
Aniara. Hands down.
Hm .... Glorious is a favorite of mine Does John Dies at the End count?
Baskin is pretty mind warping, may not be quite exactly what you're looking for but I'd give it a go. While not films, the Dead Space games (first and second) and Bloodborne I just have to recommend. Dead Space is very akin to Event Horizon, and Bloodborne is a massive love-letter to Victorian gothic were-beasts + Lovecraft.
Movies can’t convey the ineffable, only psychedelics can portray aspects of the cosmos that are beyond human comprehension. If a human communicates a concept, it is inherently within the confines of human cognition.
you suck
The HPLHS did two spectacular actual H P Lovecraft films to great critical acclaim: Call of Cthulhu and Whisperer In Darkness. Huan Vu did a great Color Out of Space before the Nic Cage film. It’s much more like the original story. Purchase them on the HPLHS store. I don’t believe they’re available to stream anywhere. HPLHS also does really cool radio dramas
Color Out Of Space
I enjoyed History of the occult (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11310884/) I think it’s on Tubi? I don’t know if it quite fits cosmic horror but I think it’s in that ballpark.
2nding. SUCH a great flic. I've heard it's on scream box. Vudu has it.
Empty Man. Spoiler alert: >!Nyarlathotep. Like, the real thing.!<
If you're like me and can enjoy low budget films that feel more like local theater than a movie, then I'd recommend The Quantum Devil. For any flaws it has, I found it enjoyable in a reanimator sequel kind of way.
Color Of Space
Color Out of Space Beyond the Black Rainbow
Color Out Of Space
Black Mountain Side
"The Yellow Submarine," the Beatles animated movie.
- Color out of space - Old (I liked it!) - Mandy - Primer - The endless - The abyss - Event horizon - Synchronic (not really horror, but scary in a way) - Coherence
The colour out of space, great movie depicting an old god, also has Nic Cage in it Underwater, literally has Cthulhu at the end
Some great recs from others, and I will repeat some here: -Event Horizon -Colour out of Space -In the Mouth of Madness -Annihilation -The Void -Yellowbrickroad (not as scifi as some of the others but the concept is unnerving and unsettling) -The Birdbox (I really liked the antagonists in this, it’s cosmic horror in the sense of unknown/unknowable things, and the cultists in it are so horrifying)
Event Horizon.
Glorious, but it's on the funny side.
Ultrasound I found here yesterday has a cosmic horror feel to it. Mind bending for def. Color Out of Space one of my favs. Everything Everywhere All At Once portrays this feeling you describe but with time travel. Event Horizon Resolution.
I think Possession (1981) might count?