[b.miller]

yeah I was a big Lovecraft fan at a formitive age so I still hold out hope for a decent Mythose movie (what I picture is more of a period detective story with aspects of the Mythos at the heart of a mystery, not tentacled monsters running around killing people). To my knowledge, his racism wasn't terribly out of place back in his day and his location. New England has always been very stodgy and wary of outsiders (even today) and in the mass immigration of the 20s and 30s, I can kind of see how someone in his closed circly of life would see anything new as a threat. Not to say it's the right way to think, but my hunch is that the culture was much more nationalistic back then in most places not just America.

What I find more interesting than his racism is his lack of any vice. From what I've read, he never drank or smoked opium or any of it. It's pretty damn hard to believe that given much of what he wrote.

In my opinion, a successful Lovecraft movie would be much like the man himself: straight-laced and proper on the exterior, dark and wet and unspeakable on the interior.