HALLOWEEN: Lovecraft Movie Moment #15 - The X-Files

For Halloween this year, I thought it'd be fun to count down the most Lovecraftian moments I've seen in horror films (and at least one outside of the genre).  I plan to give no supporting evidence other than pairing images from the films with text from Lovecraft's stories.  There will be a new entry every two days.

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15. Exploring the Spacecraft

The X-Files: Fight the Future, Rob Bowman   1996

It would be cumbrous to give a detailed, consecutive account of our wanderings inside that cavernous, aeon-dead honeycomb of primal masonry; that monstrous lair of elder secrets which now echoed for the first time, after uncounted epochs, to the tread of human feet.

 This is especially true because so much of the horrible drama and revelation came from a mere study of the omnipresent mural carvings...

The building which we had entered was one of great size and elaborateness, and gave us an impressive notion of the architecture of that nameless geologic past.  The inner partitions were less massive than the outer walls, but on the lower levels were excellently preserved. Labyrinthine complexity, involving curiously irregular differences in floor levels, characterised the entire arrangement...

After thoroughly examining the upper regions and the glacial level we descended story by story into the submerged part, where indeed we soon saw we were in a continuous maze of connected chambers and passages probably leading over unlimited areas outside this particular building.  The Cyclopean massiveness and giganticism of everything about us became curiously oppressive; and there was something vaguely but deeply inhuman in all the contours, dimensions, proportions, decorations, and constructual nuances.

"At the Mountains of Madness," Chapter VI 

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ALL ENTRIES
02. In the Mouth of Madness - "The Music of Erich Zann"
03. King Kong, The Call of Cthulhu - "The Horror at Red Hook"
04. Cthulhu - The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
05. The Mist - "Dagon"
06. The Thing - "At the Mountains of Madness"
07. The Little Mermaid - "The Call of Cthulhu"
08. Dagon - "The Temple"
09. The Descent - "The Lurking Fear"
10. Hellboy - "The Other Gods"
11. Ghostbusters - "The Dunwich Horror"
12. From Beyond - "From Beyond"
13. Vampyr - "The Silver Key"
14. Evil Dead II - "History of the Necronomicon"
15. The X-Files: Fight the Future - "At the Mountains of Madness"