Lovecraft's horrors are not evil. Nobody deserves what they get, because virtue itself is an illusion. Really, the horror of Lovecraft is not having a place in the natural order. No matter how bad how things get, you've only scratched the surface... and there's nothing you can do about it.
As Lovecraft established it, suffering is inevitable because consciousness is actually a piss-poor tool for understanding the universe. Rather than being this all-important thing, the human mind and the human soul are actually just shitty, broken steps on the evolutionary ladder - accidents and failures of nature. Dead ends.
This is what film has yet to delve into...
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