Lovecraft Films in Order of Release

The Archive holds 36 screen records: 25 productions that adapt a chronicle on file, and 11 Unfiled Occurrences, which invoke the same ground without adapting any one chronicle. Every entry carries a status stamp recording how the film relates to its source, and the Dispatch on fidelity explains the stamps. The register below runs from the earliest, The Haunted Palace (1963), to the most recent, which is The Viewing (2022) at the time of writing.

All screen records, by year of release

1. The Haunted Palace (1963) — SCRUBBED. Adapts The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
2. Die, Monster, Die! (1965) — DECOY. Adapts The Colour Out of Space.
3. The Dunwich Horror (1970) — SANCTIONED. Adapts The Dunwich Horror.
4. Cool Air (1971) — SCRUBBED. Adapts Cool Air.
5. Pickman's Model (1971) — DECOY. Adapts Pickman's Model.
6. The Music of Erich Zann (1980) — SANCTIONED. Adapts The Music of Erich Zann.
7. Evil Dead (1981) — CONSISTENT. Unfiled Occurrence: it invokes the same ground without adapting a chronicle on file.
8. Re-Animator (1985) — DECOY. Adapts Herbert West—Reanimator.
9. From Beyond (1986) — DECOY. Adapts From Beyond.
10. Evil Dead II (1987) — UNACCOUNTED. Unfiled Occurrence: it invokes the same ground without adapting a chronicle on file.
11. The Unnamable (1988) — UNACCOUNTED. Adapts The Unnamable.
12. Bride of Re-Animator (1990) — DECOY. Adapts Herbert West—Reanimator.
13. The Resurrected (1991) — SCRUBBED. Adapts The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
14. Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1993) — UNACCOUNTED. Adapts The Rats in the Walls.
15. In the Mouth of Madness (1994) — UNACCOUNTED. Unfiled Occurrence: it invokes the same ground without adapting a chronicle on file.
16. Castle Freak (1995) — DECOY. Adapts The Outsider.
17. Bleeders (1997) — SCRUBBED. Adapts The Lurking Fear.
18. Dagon (2001) — SCRUBBED. Adapts Dagon.
19. Beyond Re-Animator (2003) — DECOY. Adapts Herbert West—Reanimator.
20. The Call of Cthulhu (2005) — UNACCOUNTED. Adapts The Call of Cthulhu.
21. Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2006) — DECOY. Adapts Beyond the Wall of Sleep.
22. Cthulhu (2007) — SCRUBBED. Adapts The Shadow over Innsmouth.
23. The Dunwich Horror (2009) — SCRUBBED. Adapts The Dunwich Horror.
24. The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) — UNACCOUNTED. Adapts The Whisperer in Darkness.
25. The Cabin in the Woods (2012) — DISPUTED. Unfiled Occurrence: it invokes the same ground without adapting a chronicle on file.
26. The Void (2016) — CONSISTENT. Unfiled Occurrence: it invokes the same ground without adapting a chronicle on file.
27. The Endless (2017) — CORROBORATING. Unfiled Occurrence: it invokes the same ground without adapting a chronicle on file.
28. Annihilation (2018) — CONSISTENT. Unfiled Occurrence: it invokes the same ground without adapting a chronicle on file.
29. Color Out of Space (2019) — UNACCOUNTED. Adapts The Colour Out of Space.
30. The Lighthouse (2019) — CONSISTENT. Unfiled Occurrence: it invokes the same ground without adapting a chronicle on file.
31. The Deep Ones (2020) — SCRUBBED. Adapts The Shadow over Innsmouth.
32. The Empty Man (2020) — DISPUTED. Unfiled Occurrence: it invokes the same ground without adapting a chronicle on file.
33. Underwater (2020) — CORROBORATING. Unfiled Occurrence: it invokes the same ground without adapting a chronicle on file.
34. Dreams in the Witch House (2022) — UNACCOUNTED. Adapts The Dreams in the Witch House.
35. Pickman's Model (2022) — DECOY. Adapts Pickman's Model.
36. The Viewing (2022) — CONSISTENT. Unfiled Occurrence: it invokes the same ground without adapting a chronicle on file.

Where to begin

A viewer who wants the closest keeping to the chronicle should start with The Call of Cthulhu (2005) and The Whisperer in Darkness (2011), the two period productions in the manner of the 1920s and 1930s. A viewer who wants a film at all costs has the Re-Animator trilogy. The Dispatch on fidelity separates the two.