Adapting the tales written by Lovecraft is often a tricky thing, often due the vague and deliberately ambiguous descriptions of the otherworldy horrors present in most of his work. On paper, they tend to work very well since the fear factor is left to the imagination of the reader. In movies, however, that's another story.
There is also the fact that most of the tales adapted into the big screen tend to be relatively short, forcing the writers to add a lot of stuff to the script which in most cases doesn't add very much.
At the Mountains of Madness, ironically enough, is one of the stories big enough to carry its own film: I have to disagree with those who claim this book it's "unfilmable". It's only unfilmable by the modern (non)standards by modern Hollywood, obsessed with franchises, cinematic universes, and appealing to all demographics.
This animated short is a rather abridged adaptation, but it works, There is an odd contrast between the almost cutesy visuals with the dark story, and while I think the way in which one of the main characters is driven into insanity happened in a somewhat rushed manner, the overall result is effective enough, disregard of the dated CGI.
To this day, The Call of Cthulhu short from 2005 remains as the best adaptation of Lovecraft into a film.
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