Lovecraft? ---- SPOILERS!

Not so much.
I mean... the thing he pulls out of her... it was squicky and weird... and I don't think it was a fetus... more like an antenna. But one weird critter doesn't make it Lovecraftian.
IMO, for something to be Lovecraftian it has to line up with the themes of mankind staring out into the void and realizing how small and insignificant he is... alien gods or not.
Lovecraft's alien beings are dangerous to humans because we are so primitive to them that we barely register... they would step on us like ants and never notice.

Compare that to the changes that come over Bea and there is a different tone. Bea seems to become more appreciative of life. She mentions having killed frogs and how they screamed... but later she is annoyed at her husband catching one in a net. She also chides him for abusing the ants.
It doesn't entirely line up with what appears to be the shadow beings' disregard for the husbands... who seem to be disposable.
Whatever is going on humans, or at least human females, seem to have some value or import. Lovecraft's weird alien gods wouldn't hardly recognize them as sentient life.

I thought the story and theme were very Lavecraftean. Impregnation by some type of cosmic entity, insanity/altered thoughts and memories, and it’s all set at remote backwoods cabin; sounds like Lovecraft to me.

I actually had the same reaction to the ant flicking scene. I think that is exactly what the filmmakers wanted us to take away from it. Sort of a comparison to how the aliens, or whatever they were, view us.



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Dead Space Brethren Moons = Lovecraftian. (Video game but a good example. Look up the first hallucination cutscene from Awakened where they are introduced in plural. They're Lovecraftian as hell.)

These guys = Disturbing and freaky, but not Lovecraftian in any way.

I will say, I appreciated that for once, the creatures aren't shoved in your face but implied. It left a sense of suspense and dread rare in films these days!

I felt some of the Lovecraftean vibe myself. SPOILER ALERT: Of course if you are reading this I assume you had to of seen the film. Seeing the ending was sort of vague in some ways you could image these creatures being anything. Aliens from another world or creatures from another dimension, future or anywhere. Creepy film to me and at times I don't mind a mystery or leave it to your imagination.

It reminded me more of cronenberg, yes. I like that it was a woman and centered around her vagina and uterus. What I got from it was that it was a body horror film reflecting how much women's bodies and lives change during pregnancy and then after. Not all women fantasize about having children and how wonderful it will be. Speaking from my own experience, it absolutely terrifies me.

Yes the story recalls vaguely the Dunwich horror, but in Lovecraft we had cooler human-alien hybrids.

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