Why Cosmic Horror is Hard To Make
“What is the limit of our humanity?”
There are plenty of films that deal with creatures beyond our understanding, such as IT or the Thing, where the creatures are constantly changing shape and shifting form. Many films call back to the work HP Lovecraft that wrote extensively on the subject, exploring the world of unnameable and inexplicable creatures. But why is it so hard to make a good cosmic horror film. Screened attempt to answer this question in a twisted little video that delves deep into the bowels of horror. Why Cosmic Horror is Hard To Make?
In this video we take a look at why Cosmic Horror (or Lovecraftian Horror) is so hard to adapt onto the screen because of its visual complexity and abstraction.
