Talk:Cthulhu Creature/@comment-216.169.91.252-20161214181445

The correct term would be "Cthulhumanoid." But the Deep Ones, as described in "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," aren't described as having tentacles. Lovecraft mainly uses the term "fish-frogs." There is no such movie as "Into the Mouth of Darkness." There is a John Carpenter movie called "In the Mouth of Madness," starring Sam Neill and Julie Carmen, with Jurgen Prochnow as the sinister author Sutter Cane. That film is directly inspired by Lovecraft's work, but not actually based on any of his stories. "At the Mountains of Madness" is a novella by Lovecraft which has thwarted all attempts by Hollywood to adapt it (mainly because John W. Campbell Jr.'s story "Who Goes There?", the basis for all movie versions of "The Thing," is generally acknowledged to have been inspired by "Mountains," so a movie version of "Mountains" would be very similar to "The Thing"). And most of the movies based on Lovecraft's work ("From Beyond," "Re-Animator," "Lurking Fear" and "The Dunwich Horror," among others) have been very *loosely* based on it. I have my doubts that this creature is inspired by any of those movies. Davy Jones from "Pirates of the Caribbean" is a similar-looking character, yes, but so is Zoidberg from "Futurama," Tessek (aka "Squid Head") from "Return of the Jedi," or the Illithids (or "Mind Flayers") from the Dungeons & Dragons RPG. There are many others; forgive me if I missed some. There's something very weird and alien about cephalopods; human beings are quite averse to and repulsed by them. Lovecraft was and he knew others were. He was a genius. The best of his work, to be perfectly vulgar, reaches right down and squeezes you by the balls.