Status:
Completed
An Imperfect Solution
(Cry of the Cadaver)
Production company: Crawling
Chaos Pictures
Directed by: Christian Matzke
Written by: Christian Matzke
Cast: Click here
for cast information.
Plot: Based on the story "Herbert West: Reanimator".
Read the story here.
Release date: Out now on DVD. Click here
to order.
Website: NA
IMDb: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0362754/
Soure: Personal correspondence with Christian Matzke.
update: An Imperfect
Solution, delayed for over a year, will finally
be released on (VHS) August 20th, the date of H. P.
Lovecraft's birth.
*
Angry and Moist: An Undead Chronicle
Production
company: Untamed Aggression Productions
Directed by: James Raynor
Written by: James Raynor
Cast: Vicky Crampton, Alex Eamonson, Nick Thompson,
Nicola Ford, Sabbi Stone, Dom Wynter, Rob Young, Brian
Gordon and Andy Smith
Plot: Dr. Norbert Crest has recently been released from
the Vin Deisel Memorial Institute and immediately resumed
the activities which got him put in there: experimenting
on the dead to find a cure for mortality. Accosted by
a combination of his revived subjects and some enthusiastic
God botherers, the question becomes not whether Norbert
survives the day, but which part of him? Based on the
story "Herbert West: Reanimator". Read
the story here.
Release date: Summer 2004
Website: http://www.untamedaggression.iofm.net/reanimator/
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436067/
Source: Personal correspondence with Christian Matzke
and James Raynor.
update:
Director James Raynor has informed me that shooting
has officially begun on Angry and Moist. View
production images here!
update:
I've added complete cast information, and director James
Raynor has informed me that the film is now in post-production.
* Behind the Wall of Sleep
(documentary)
Production company: TBA
Directed by: Bob Ziegler
Written by: TBA
Cast: TBA
Plot: Filmed during production of the feature film,
"Beyond the Wall of Sleep". Read the
story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Robin Hall, Matt
Green, and Bob Ziegler.
update: Although activity
has resumed on Behind the Wall of Sleep, there
are no current plans to release it.
* Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Production company: El Globo Films, Riverdance Pictures,
Visceral Pictures Inc.
Directed by: Barrett J. Leigh and Thom Maurer
Written by: TBA
Cast: Tom Savini
Click here
for cast information.
Plot: Based on the story "Beyond the Wall of
Sleep". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.beyondthewallofsleep.com/
IMDb: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0279688
Source: Official Website: http://www.beyondthewallofsleep.com/
update: I have been told
by several sources that Beyond the Wall of Sleep
will indeed be released (unconfirmed date).
update: According to sources,
the film has entered post-productions with a possible
fall release.
update: The official website
is coming soon.
update: Director Thom Maurer
has informed me that Beyond the Wall of Sleep
is now finished!
Beyond Re-Animator
Production company: Filmax (Fantastic Factory)
Directed by: Brian Yuzna
Written by: Jose Manuel Gomez
Cast: Jeffrey Combs and Jason Barry (as Howard Philips)
(note: Bruce Abbott does not return as Dan Cain)
Plot: A dozen years later we find West is an inmate
at a forbidding old Prison. In spite of his incarceration,
West has been continuing his Re-animation research,
using rats and mice for subjects, and electrocuting
them with a special jerry-rigged apparatus. West has
now identified an electrical phenomenon – the NEE
– which is discharged from the brain at the moment
of death…and which may be the ‘missing link’
in his studies: if the NEE is re-injected into a Re-animated
Corpse, it should restore the ‘subject’ to
full ‘reason’... Based on the story "Herbert
West: Reanimator". Read the story here.
Release date: October 4th on Sci-Fi (TV) December 30th
(video and DVD)
Website: http://www.beyondreanimator.com/
IMDb: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0222812/
Source: Various news articles and interviews. Check
out Unfilmable.com News for links.
Binding Silence
Production
company: TBA
Directed by: Ray Zablocki
Written by: Ray Zablocki
Cast: TBA
Plot: Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.bindingsilence.com/
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence Ray Zablocki.
* The Call of Cthulhu
Producer:
Sean Branney and Andrew Leman
Directed by: Andrew Leman
Written by: Sean Branney
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "The Call of Cthulhu".
Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.cthulhulives.org/cocmovie/index.html
IMDb: http://imdb.com/title/tt0478988/
Source: Personal correspondence with Bob Brinkman, Sean
Branney and Andrew Leman.
image © 2003
Best Destiny
* Casonetto's Last Song
Production
company: Best Destiny and Big Time
Directed by: Derek M. Koch and Brenda Dau
Written by: Brenda Dau and Derek M. Koch
Cast: David Jackson, Matt Ludwick and Jeff Argubright,
cameo by Andrew Migliore
Plot: Based on Robert E. Howard's weird tale 'Casonetto's
Last Song'
Release date: Mid- to Late 2003
Website: http://home.comcast.net/~dau.koch/Casonetto/index.html
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Derek M. Koch.
* Cool Air
Production
company: Filmwerks
Directed by: Albert Pyun
Written by: Cynthia Curnan
Cast: Morgan Weisser, Crystal Green, Wendy Phillips,
Virginia Dare and Norbert Weisser
Plot: Based on the story "Cool Air".
Read the story here.
Release date: October 2005
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: http://www.fangoria.com/
*
Dreams in the Witch House
Production
company: TBA
Directed by: Stuart Gordon
Written by: Stuart Gordon and Dennis Paoli
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "Dreams in the Witch
House". Read the story here.
Release date: Fall 2005
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/
* Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
(animated)
Production company: Guerrilla Productions
Directed by: Edward Martin III
Written by: Jason Thompson and Edward Martin III
Cast (voice): Toren Atkinson, Edward Martin III, Katrina
Martin Click here
to see the entire cast.
Plot: Based on the story "The Dream Quest of
Unknown Kadath". Read the story here.
The artwork comes from Jason Thompson's comic book of
the same name.
Release date: October 10, 2003
Website: http://www.petting-zoo.org/Movies_Dreamquest.html
IMDb: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0384057/
Source: Post from Edward Martin III on the HP
Lovecraft Yahoo Group. Personal correspondence with
Edward Martin III.
update: According to Edward,
the production has now hit the 60 minute mark!
update: Dream-Quest
animation is now complete!
update: Dream-Quest
is now complete, and will premiere at the HPLFF.
* The Eldritch Influence
Production company: Hermetic Productions
Directed by: Shawn Owens
Written by: TBA
Cast: S.T. Joshi, writers Neil Gaiman, Brian Lumley,
Ramsey Campbell, and director Stuart Gordon among others
Plot: A documentary meant to capture the spirit of Lovecraft
on film.
Release date: Out now on DVD. Click here
to order.
Website: http://www.hermeticproductions.com/index.html
IMDb: http://imdb.com/title/tt0388914/
Source: Andrew Migliore
update: The Eldritch
Influence is now complete, and will premiere at
the HPLFF.
* Enter the Dagon
Production
company: Spinning Grave
Directed by: Tom Gleason
Written by: Curt Markham
Cast: Click here
for cast information.
Plot: "Enter the Dagon" deals with
a serious fan's attempt at a faithful film adaption
of a cherished horror tale, and the corrupted form it
takes as it goes through the Hollywood process. Based
on the story "Dagon". Read the story
here.
Release date: October 2004
Website: http://www.cis.rit.edu/~jerry/Movie/dagon/
IMDb: NA
Source: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/enterthedagon/
update: According to
Tom Gleason, Enter the Dagon has now entered
post-production.
Experiment
17
Production
company: Not applicable
Directed by: Unknown at this time
Written by: Not applicable
Cast: Unknown
Plot: The films contents have not been fully released,
but it does prove that Hitler obtained a copy of the
Necronomicon.
Release date: Crawling Chaos Pictures' "Experiment
17" expose will be released by early fall.
Website: http://www.reanimator.8m.com/experiment17.html
(You can submit information or make donations for research
here.)
IMDb: http://imdb.com/title/tt0479907/
Source: Crawling
Chaos Pictures
* The Fog
(remake)
Producers:
John Carpenter and Debra Hill
Directed by: Rupert Wainwright
Written by: Cooper Layne
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on characters and situations from The
Fog.
Release date: October 21st, 2005
Website: http://www.escapethefog.com/
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432291/
Source: http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/
* From
Beyond
(stop-motion
animation)
Production company: Red Hatchet Films
Directed by: Michael Granberry
Written by: Michael Granberry
Cast: NA (animation)
Plot: Based on the story "From Beyond".
Read the story here.
Release date: July 2006
Website: http://www.redhatchetfilms.com/
IMDB: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Michael Granberry.
update:
Production has ended on From
Beyond. The short is
currently in sound mixing...
* Graveyard
Production company: Fizz Films
Directed by: Ed Brisson
Written by: TBA
Cast: Jon Mikl Thor, Joey Shithead, Toren Atkinson and
James McBurney
Plot: A bookstore owner uses the Necronomicon to turn
his staff into zombies. Release date: June 2003?
Website: http://www.fizzfilms.com/graveyard.html
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381223/
Source: Post from Toren Atkinson on the HP
Lovecraft Yahoo Group.
update: Graveyard
is now available on DVD. Click here
for more.
* The Halfway House
Production
company: BV Entertainment, Inc.
Directed by: Kenneth J. Hall
Written by: Kenneth J. Hall
Cast: Click here
for cast information.
Plot: Young girls are disappearing in and around the
Mary Magdalen Halfway House for Troubled Girls. Desperate
to find out what became of her sister, Larissa Morgan
goes undercover to infiltrate the Catholic-run institution.
Once inside, she encounters Father Fogerty, a priest
with a passion for punishment; Sister Cecelia, a nun
with a dark past plotting an even blacker future; Edwina
and her love-toy Cherry Pie; tough Latino Angelina and
her home girls and a sinister handyman named Lutkus.
It's not long before she's caught up in a twisted web
of sadism, violence, and wanton lust before finally
learning the ultimate secret of the Halfway House.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.halfwayhouse-movie.com
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390073/
Source: http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/
update: Halfway House
is now finished and awaiting a distribution deal.
* The Hole
(March the 13th, 1941)
Production
company: Big Belly Film
Directed by: Robert P. Olsson
Written by: Robert P. Olsson and Björn-Erik Karlsson
Cast: Robert Johansson
Plot: The year is 1941. Two Investigators are doing
research on an old well. One of the gentlemen climbs
down the hole and then they communicate through an military
phone. But something is strange, the place, the hole,
and then the phone. Based on the story "The
Statement of Randolph Carter". Read the story
here.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.bigbellyfilm.se
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436008/
Source: Personal correspondence with Robert P. Olsson.
note:
This
film has been placed in the rumor section due to the
fact that I have not confirmed it with anyone. It is
also based on a story that I am unfamiliar with. More
as it becomes available.
update:
I recieved an email update from Robert P. Olsson regarding
The Hole. According to Robert, the film has been finished
and will be submitted to the HPLFF in the fall...
* Innsmouth Legacy
Production
company: Guerrilla Productions
Directed by: Edward Martin III
Written by: Edward Martin III
Cast: Cast: Emily Hayes, Sheri Hinshaw, Mad Martian
as "Craig", Hannah Wyatt, David J. Gembala
and Scott Fink For a list of extras, click here
(they include director Aaron Lucchesi, HPLFF founder
Andrew Migliore and Unfilmable.com contributor Catherine
Fuller!)
Plot: Based on the story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".
Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.petting-zoo.org/Movies_Innsmouth.html
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427388/
Source: Dream-Quest update from Edward Martin
III.
update: According to Edward
Martin III, production has now begun on Innsmouth
Legacy.
update: Innsmouth Legacy
is an official selection of the 2004 H.P.
Lovecraft Film Festival.
poster image
© Pagan Productions
* London After Midnight
Production company: Pagan Productions
Directed by: Bruce G. Hallenbeck
Written by: Bruce G. Hallenbeck
Cast: TBA
Plot: London After Midnight is a very ambitious
project that began in 1997. It's a cross between THE
X-FILES, THE AVENGERS and H.P. Lovecraft,
with scores of actors and locations. The story is about
a man and a woman who investigate the paranormal and
find themselves battling a cult that worships the Lovecraftian
deity Shub-Niggurath.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.paganfilmproductions.net/id12.html
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Frank Hummel, Bruce
G. Hallenbeck.
LovecraCked!
The Movie
Production
company: BiFF JUGGERNAUT Productions
Directed by: Elias
Written by: Elias
Cast: Elias, Chvad SB, Lloyd Kaufman, Ryan Johnston,
Nick Basile, Mary Holloway, Brian Bernhard, Martina
Ganster, Richard Wine, Rich Casella, Anna Ganster and
Jean Schwarzwalder
Plot: The search of one investigative journalist for
the truth about H.P. Lovecraft may just upset the fragile
balance between fact & fiction, between life &
death, and between flesh & styrofoam...
Release date: TBA
Website: http://biffjuggernaut.com/lovecrackedthemovie
IMDb: http://imdb.com/title/tt0486617/
Source: Personal correspondence with Elias.
*
The Lovecraft Syndrome
Production
company: Sword & Cloak Productions
Directed by: David Schmidt
Written by: TBA
Cast: TBA
Plot: It's the story of a Grad student who has suffered
some terrible personal trauma, and has thrown herself
into writing her dissertation on Lovecraft's writing.
As she becomes more and more obsessed with his dark
universe, she starts to experience dark visions and
spiral into madness...
Release date: TBA
Website: http://swordandcloak.com/Lovecraft/lovecraft.htm
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with David Schmidt.
Manuscrit
d'un fou
Production
company: Weird Fantasy Productions
Directed by: Thibaut Brix
Written by: Thibaut Brix
Cast: TBD
Plot: Based on the story Le manuscrit d'un fou,
written by Thibaut Brix. Read the story here
(in French).
Release date: TBA
Website: http://weird-fantasy.hplovecraft-fr.com/home.php
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Thibaut Brix.
*
The Miskatonic Acid Test
Production
company: American Entropy
Directed by: Dark Lord Rob
Written by: Dark Lord Rob
Cast: TBA
Plot: In the late sixties, things went very, very wrong
at a psychedelic rock concert in witch-haunted Arkham,
Massachusetts. Thirty years later, a group of the survivors
are finding themselves compelled to repeat the experience.
Based on the novel "The Miskatonic Acid Test"
currently being written by Dark Lord Rob. Read the story
here.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://miskatonic.americanentropy.com/
IMDb: TBA
Source: Personal correspondence with Edgar Allan Lovecraft.
update:
According to director Dark Lord Rob, The Miskatonic
Acid Test begins shooting the weekend of November
19, 2004...
* Mortuary
Produced by: Tony Didio, Evan Katz and Captive Audience
(Greg Cannom and Keith Vanderlaan)
Directed by: Tobe Hooper
Written by: Adam Gierasch and Jace Anderson
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on Lovecraft's writings. It’s about
a family whose dad buys a cemetery/mortuary in Arkham,
Massachusetts, and spooky hijinx ensue.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://ver2.mortuarythemovie.com/web/index.php
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415167/
Source: http://www.fangoria.com/
* The Music of Erich Zann
(stop-motion animation)
Production
company: TBA
Directed by: Anna Gawrilow
Written by: Anna Gawrilow
Cast: TBA
Plot: A stop motion film based on H.P. Lovecraft's "The
Music of Erich Zann". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.trickfilmnoir.de/zann.html
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Anna Gawrilow.
*
Pickman's Model
Note:
This is a radio theatre adaptation.
Production
company: Willamette Radio Workshop
Written and Directed by: Chris Porter
Cast: Donald Stewart Burns and Scott Jamieson
Plot: H. P. Lovecraft takes us to the North End, 1925,
through a dark tangle of alleys, down into a dank cellar,
and into the mind of mad genius to find out why no one's
seen Pickman around the Art Club lately. Based on the
story "Pickman's Model". Read the story
here.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.radiowork.com/2004/in-studio/pickmans-model/
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Chris Porter.
* Pickman's Model
Production company: Dark Whisper Films
Directed by: Rick Tillman
Written by: Rick Tillman
Cast: John Williams Lynch, Rick Tillman, Don Lapora,
Alan Wilkie, Mary Hiney, Jim Serfling, and Dave Hiney
Plot: Based on the story "Pickman's Model".
Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.pickmansmodel.com/
IMDb: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0384427/
Source: Personal correspondence with Rick Tillman.
update: I've just received
word from Rick Tillman that Pickman's Model has
been completed and will be shown at the 10th Annual
HPLFF.
* Pickman's Model
Production
company: independent production
Directed by: Giovanni Furore
Written by: Stephen Durden (Stefano Sgambati) and Giovanni
Furore
Cast: Lorenzo Mori, Vittorio De Stefano, Alex Di Lorenzo
and Eva Chiorazzo
Plot: Based on the story "Pickman's Model".
Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: Coming soon
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Rick Tillman and
Giovanni Furore.
update: I've just received
word from Giovanni Furore that Pickman's Model
has been completed and will be shown at the 10th Annual
HPLFF.
image © 2003
Best Destiny
* The Picture in the House
Production
company: Best Destiny
Written and Directed by: Aaron Lucchesi
Cast: Derek M. Koch and Jayesunn Krump
Plot: Based on the story "The Picture in the
House". Read the story here.
Release date: Mid- to Late 2003
Website: http://www.bestdestiny.net (off-line)
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Derek M. Koch and
Aaron Lucchesi.
Read Me a Story
Production
company: Unfilmable Films, Electric Night Entertainment
and Dracomoon Productions
Directed by: Craig Mullins and Bret Mix
Written by: Craig Mullins
Cast: Rebekah Morrison, Gage Alexander Mullins and Conan
Rapson
Plot: Based on an original idea by Craig Mullins. Inspired
by the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.unfilmable.com/readmeastory.html
IMDb: NA
Source: Myself...
*
ReCreation
Production
company: Guerrilla Productions
Directed by: Edward Martin III
Written by: Edward Martin III
Cast: Jason Custer, Mad Martian, Katherine Macdonald,
Braden Beattie and Kiernan Beattie
Plot: "ReCreation" is a simple and
short story, about one man confronting his best friend
to help resolve a loss they've both suffered. Based
on the story "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath".
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.petting-zoo.org/Movies_ReCreation.html
IMDb: http://imdb.com/title/tt0484883/
Source: Personal correspondence with Edward Martin III.
* Shadowdog
(formerly Sundog)
Production
company: Guerrilla Productions
Directed by: Edward Martin III
Written by: Edward Martin III
Cast: TBA
Plot: NA
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.guerrilla-productions.org/Movie_Shadowdog.html
IMDb: NA
Source: Dream-Quest update from Edward Martin
III.
update: According to Edward
Martin III, production has now ended on Shadowdog.
*
The Statement of Randolph Carter
Production
company: Guerrilla Productions
Directed by: Edward Martin III
Written by: Edward Martin III
Cast: Sean Strauss as Harley Warren and "Mad Martian"
as Randolph Carter
Plot: Based on the story "The Statement of Randolph
Carter". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.guerrilla-productions.org/Movie_StatementOfRC.html
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0487049/
Source: Personal correspondence with Edward Martin III.
* Strange Aeons: The Thing on
the Doorstep
Production company: Maelstrom Productions
Directed by: Eric Morgret
Written by: Kelly Young
Cast: J.D. Lloyd, Angela Grillo, Jerry Lloyd, Pamela
Taylor, Frank Rongo and Erick J. Robertson
Plot: Based on the story "The Thing on the Doorstep".
Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.maelstromproductions.com/index.html
IMDb: http://imdb.com/title/tt0489410/
Source: Personal correspondence with Kelly Young and
Eric Morgret.
update: Principle Photography
has ended on Strange Aeons. The film will now
enter post-production...
* The Summoning
Production
company: Dark Whisper Films
Directed by: Rick Tillman
Written by: Rick Tillman
Cast: Alan Wilkie and John Williams Lynch
Plot: When Dr. Reid came into the possession of an ancient
tome, he got more than he bargained for. He thought
he could control what the book claimed to be able to
summon, though he was horribly dismayed to find out
just how wrong he really was...
Release date: October 2004
Website: http://www.thesummoning.net/
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426591/
Source: Personal correspondence with Rick Tillman.
update:
Rick Tillman has finished the screenplay and is currently
scouting locations.
update:
Shooting began this weekend on Dark Whisper Films,
The Summoning! View production images here!
update: Rick Tillman has
informed me that The Summoning is now complete,
and has been submitted to the HPLFF.
update: The Summoning
is an official selection of the 2004 H.P.
Lovecraft Film Festival.
The Thing on the Doorstep
Production
company: Maelstrom Productions
Directed by: Eric Morgret
Written by: K.L. Young
Cast: Beth Zumann, Erick Robertson, Oliver Spencer,
J.D. Lloyd, Jamie Morgan, Elizabeth Ammann
Music by: Parker Whittle
Director of photography: Angelo Comeaux
Plot: Based on the story "The Thing on the Doorstep".
Read the story here.
Release date: October 2003
Website: http://www.maelstromproductions.com/MPMovie_Doorstep.html
IMDb: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0380752/
Source: Personal correspondence with Christian Matzke.
update: Updated website
information has been added.
*
The Unnamable
Production company: TBA (independent from the MovieBrats
version)
Directed by: NA
Written by: TBA
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "The Unnamable".
Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Franklin Hummel.
update: This film is the
same one that Sascha Renninger is currently working
on. Thanks to Sascha Renninger for this information.
update: This earlier
version of The Unnamable has been re-edited,
and will appear on the DVD of Sascha Renninger's current
version of the film.
The Veil
Production company: Steam Powered Films
Directed by: Mike Jackson
Written by: Sam Dulmage & Mike Jackson
Additional dialogue and Lovecraft consultant: Toren
Atkinson
Cast: Corina Akeson, Mackenzie Gray, Charles Zuckermann,
Toren Atkinson, Robyn Forsyth
Plot: A young married woman is haunted by dark visions.
Is it her medication, or something more sinister? A
lovecraftian period piece.
Release date: Six-minute version - Oct. 2005; Eleven-minute
extended cut - May 2006.
Website: http://www.steampoweredfilms.ca/Shorts.htm
IMDb: NA
Source: Mike Jackson/Steam Powered Films; Personal correspondence
with Toren Atkinson.
