what nightmares are made of

[vincent]

This critter would fit well within one of those Sigourney Weaver outer space horror monster movies.




www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12398727/New-species-sea-monster-20-arms-lurking-frozen-seas-Antarctica.html

[johannes]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness *

I, for one, welcome our new (?) crinoid overlords...

* What are the "giant Dornier planes" mentioned in the text? Dornier was famous for giant flying boats, but Lovecraft mentions skis, so those must have been landplanes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_Do_K
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_Do_P
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_Do_Y
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_Ka_87
reasonably big by early 30ies standards, but hardly gigantic

[johannes]

Aug 13, 2023 0:19:57 GMT 10 vincent said:

This critter would fit well within one of those Sigourney Weaver outer space horror monster movies.




As it is set in Antarctica, it also reminds me of John Carpenter's The Thing. Nowadays, nobody would dare to make a mainsstream movie with an all male, all working class cast of ten white men and a black man...