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Please help me poison my mind...
I'd like to revisit two movies I saw long ago; they have lingered. I cannot recall names!
One I saw long ago, as a child. It featured a scientist who had created a machine to bring a paralell dimension into synch with ours. It made alien critters- horrific, lamprey-like floating things- visible to his senses. Unfortunately, it also made him visible to them! The machine was destroyed through the intervention of another charactor- a young assistant, perhaps? But the experience had caused physical changes in both men's brains. Their pituitary glands were stimulated and evolved into organs that brought them back into synch with the other dimension. They also developed a taste for human brains. They end up in an asylum, fighting one another, with the fate of the world in question. I don't even know, objectively, if the movie was good. It made a big impression on me, though!
The other I saw more recently. In it, a man- perhaps a writer or a film-maker?- returns to his childhood town after an incident of madness. But the town has changed- or is he still mad? He sees children chasing a dog, at first in innocent fun. But as the movie continues, the children change, the mood of the chase changes, and eventually he glimpses the dog running through the town missing a limb. No-one else seems to notice. Finally he confronts the children with the corpse of the dog. They turn, showing devolved faces. And they are not the only ones changing. Something is happening to him; some Lovecraftian heritage is claiming him.
I'd really like to take another look at these films.
So please- any info is appreciated.
ALSO- reccomend other movies with a Lovecraftian theme (yes, I'm familiar with Re-animator series).
THANKS ALL.
I'd like to revisit two movies I saw long ago; they have lingered. I cannot recall names!
One I saw long ago, as a child. It featured a scientist who had created a machine to bring a paralell dimension into synch with ours. It made alien critters- horrific, lamprey-like floating things- visible to his senses. Unfortunately, it also made him visible to them! The machine was destroyed through the intervention of another charactor- a young assistant, perhaps? But the experience had caused physical changes in both men's brains. Their pituitary glands were stimulated and evolved into organs that brought them back into synch with the other dimension. They also developed a taste for human brains. They end up in an asylum, fighting one another, with the fate of the world in question. I don't even know, objectively, if the movie was good. It made a big impression on me, though!
The other I saw more recently. In it, a man- perhaps a writer or a film-maker?- returns to his childhood town after an incident of madness. But the town has changed- or is he still mad? He sees children chasing a dog, at first in innocent fun. But as the movie continues, the children change, the mood of the chase changes, and eventually he glimpses the dog running through the town missing a limb. No-one else seems to notice. Finally he confronts the children with the corpse of the dog. They turn, showing devolved faces. And they are not the only ones changing. Something is happening to him; some Lovecraftian heritage is claiming him.
I'd really like to take another look at these films.
So please- any info is appreciated.
ALSO- reccomend other movies with a Lovecraftian theme (yes, I'm familiar with Re-animator series).
THANKS ALL.