This month we talk about 2017's Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman and based off of the novel of the same name by Jeffrey Vandermeer. Portman is part of a team of scientists sent into "The Shimmer", an expanding zone of corrupted nature that arrived with a meteor strike. The team falls one by one as things get stranger and less reliable.

This infamous straight-to-video Stuart Gordon film stars Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, a castle, and a freak. While this is nominally a loose adaptation of "The Outsider", it mostly ends up being a gory and horny slasher film. And that's fine! But it's not without a brain or a heart, because just under the surface is Gordon's reaction to Lovecraft's conflicts about whether nature or nurture decide a person's fate.

This month we cover the 1981 film Possession, which is one of the strangest things we've watched and covered on the network. Mark returns home to find that his wife Anna not only wants a divorce, but is also acting very strangely. But Mark is unwell too. And there are greater forces pulling the strings here. This movie is hard to get ahold of and very hard to watch at points, but it's also unlike most horror or drama movies we've seen.

Aaron and Justin escaped a cult as kids, but a mysterious video tape draws them back to answer questions about what was really going on there. What they walk into is cosmically and existentially horrifying in a way that would actually spoil too much if I said too much about it here. Not gonna lie, we really like this movie, and we encourage you to watch it first before hearing our discussion. It's available on Netflix as of the time of this posting.

Re-Animator is an extremely fun movie. It was the debut of Stuart Gordon (rest in peace), Jeffrey Combs, and Barbara Crampton, and it looms large in the world of Lovecraft film adaptations. It takes one of Lovecraft's lesser stories and moves it to the present day, making it a straight-up horror comedy classic.

Necronomicon: Book of the Dead is a straight to video horror anthology movie. H.P. Lovecraft finds a copy of the fabled book, and reads three stories of woe out of it. The movie itself is mostly schlocky fun, but it's hard to call this a very good adaptation of any of Lovecraft's stories.

Richard Stanley's 2019 adaptation of The Colour Out of Space is a fantastic movie, and a great adaptation. It moves the story to modern times, while putting the Gardner family in the foreground so we can fully absorb the tragedy of what the Colour does to them. It accomplishes this through spot on acting, great practical effects, and a truly psychedelic back half. Watch this film!

We spill the beans about a phenomenal movie that defies genre. The Lighthouse is in the "Lovecraftian" side of our ledger. It's not a straight adaptation, but a thematic echo, and it hits on one of the main aspects of Lovecraft's tales that we don't see a lot of: insanity. Come for the performances, stay for the amazing production details.

This month we return to the work of Stuart Gordon with his 2001 film Dagon. This is an adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and it does a very good job of capturing the spirit of that story while still making some fundamental changes. It also has one particular scene that is extremely difficult to watch. So be warned?

Unfilmable is our show about different movies and television shows that have attempted to adapt the work of H.P. Lovecraft.

Though this Roger Corman film bears the title of a poem by Edgar Alan Poe, it's really an adaptation of Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". It stars Vincent Price, whose charisma brightens up a strange film that's at turns slow and schlocky, making it absolutely worth the watch.