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The Decline of Western Civilization is a 1981 American documentary filmed through 1979 and 1980. The movie is about the Los Angeles punk rock scene and was directed by Penelope Spheeris . In 1981, the LAPD Chief of Police Daryl Gates wrote a letter demanding the film not be shown again in the city.
The title of Pat Buchanan book The Death of the West, is a reference to The Decline of the West; Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall is an allusion to both The Decline of the West and Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; H. P. Lovecraft was heavily influenced by the book. William Gaddis was heavily influenced by the book.
The resonator then implodes. The series ends with a voiceover from West. He admits that dismissing spirituality was an oversight, but also emphasizes the value of repeated experiments and research. West is then shown continuing his experiments with a new version of his serum, which is now glowing and green in color.
More specifically, he thought that the West was in a state of terminal decline. [189] Starting in the 1920s, Lovecraft became familiar with the work of the German conservative-revolutionary theorist Oswald Spengler, whose pessimistic thesis of the decadence of the modern West formed a crucial element in Lovecraft's overall anti-modern worldview ...
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - "Lovecraft Country," a new drama on HBO, begins with a scene of degradation; soldier Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) emerges from a foxhole to see a winged, tentacled ...
The film chronicles the heavy metal club scene in Los Angeles during the 1987-88 time period, with an emphasis placed on the glam metal subgenre. [2] While many established artists such as Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne, Dave Mustaine, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley are featured in interviews, members of several unsigned L.A. club bands are also given a share of the spotlight, including ...
This period saw a few films using lovecraftian horror themes. 2007's The Mist, Frank Darabont's movie adaptation of Stephen King's 1985 novella by the same name, featuring otherworldly Lovecraftian monsters emerging from a thick blanket of mist to terrify a small New England town, [54] and 2005's The Call of Cthulhu, made by the H. P. Lovecraft ...
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