If you are tracking H. P. Lovecraft’s Biography, Net Worth, Fact, Career, Awards and Life Story, this article provides essential context worth reading.

Films based on the writings of H. P. Lovecraft include the following.

• The Haunted Palace (1963), directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, and with Lon Chaney Jr.. Marketed as “Edgar Allan Poe’s The Haunted Palace“, the film is actually based on The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and also includes elements taken from The Shadow over Innsmouth and “The Dunwich Horror”.
• Die, Monster, Die! (1965), directed by Daniel Haller, and starring Boris Karloff and Nick Adams. An adaptation of “The Colour Out of Space”.
• The Dunwich Horror (1970), directed by Daniel Haller, and starring Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, and Ed Begley. Based on the short story of the same name.
• Re-Animator (1985), directed by Stuart Gordon, and starring Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, and David Gale. An adaptation of “Herbert West—Reanimator”.
• From Beyond (1986), directed by Stuart Gordon, and starring Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, and Ken Foree. Based on the short story of the same name.
• The Curse (1987), directed by David Keith, and starring Wil Wheaton. Based on “The Colour Out of Space”.
• The Unnamable (1988), directed by Jean-Paul Ouellette and starring Mark Kinsey Stephenson. Based on the short story of the same name.
• The Resurrected (1991), directed by Dan O’Bannon and starring John Terry, Jane Sibbett, and Chris Sarandon. Based on The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
• The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1992), directed by Jean-Paul Ouellette and starring Mark Kinsey Stephenson. The film combines story elements from “The Unnameable” and “The Statement of Randolph Carter”.
• Necronomicon (1993), an anthology of three stories based on “The Rats in the Walls”, “Cool Air”, and The Whisperer in Darkness, with a framing story featuring a fictionalized H. P. Lovecraft.
• Castle Freak (1995), directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton. Inspired by “The Outsider”.
• Dagon (2001), directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, and Raquel Meroño [es]. Based on The Shadow over Innsmouth.
• The Call of Cthulhu (2005), a silent black-and-white featurette designed to look like it was released in the late 1920s, when the short story “The Call of Cthulhu” was published.
• Cthulhu (2007), directed by Daniel Gildark, and starring Jason Cottle, Cara Buono, and Tori Spelling. Based on The Shadow over Innsmouth.
• The Whisperer in Darkness (2011), a black-and-white film designed to look like it was released in the 1930s. Based on the short story of the same name.
• Color Out of Space (2020), directed by Richard Stanley and starring Nicolas Cage. Based on “The Colour Out of Space”.