Why hasn´t anyone mentioned the apalling similarities of the movie with the short stoey "The hounds of Tindalos" by Frank Belknap Long? I thought it pretty much was lifted off from there. I mean, the obsessive guy taking an ancestral drug, the mind-time-travelling, the eldritch effects on the user?
I wonder if the writer of the novel and movie ever read the story? I´m thinking yes.
"Apalling" as in, you feel the Lovecraft estate should be compensated for theft of intellectual property?
I am in a blissful state, so don't bug me.
No, not that apalling. But I think it´s pretty close to the story.
nice query, elpaga... interesting to think about, and i didn't directly draw the connection, though as soon as i saw your subject line, i was intrigued and starting filling in... yep, yep... although enough details are changed that one could say they 'heavily borrowed thematic elements' without actually stealing the story, right?
shareThere is no Lovecraft estate. He died without heirs, leaving everything he wrote to an aunt who herself died without bequeathing it. Everything by Lovecraft is in the public domain.
shareInteresting, too, that much of this film was shot in Boston, which figures prominently in many of Lovecraft's works.
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I don't know the specific short story but Lovecraftian it is.
I read a lot of Lovecraft stories and didn't think of the connection to this film while watching it but once you mentioned it here... yes, you are very right!
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