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~ Does anyone have any information on this hat? It was up for auction on eBay (which I lost). It was accompanied by the following text. ~Here is a rare hat that was given to movie crew who worked on HBO's LOVECRAFT, HBO's series on H.P. LOVECRAFTS stories. Embroidered logos. IN MINT CONDITION NEVER WORN. One size fits all with and adjustable strap.~ Is this in reference
to the film Cast A Deadly Spell? The original screenplay was
entitled LOVECRAFT. At one time HBO had a Lovecraft series in
the works (Tim Burton was attached), but nothing ever came of it.
December 30: H.P. Lovecraft's "The Last Mile" When Professor George Angell dies suddenly in the rural deep south, Miskatonic University Instructor Melissa Angell uncovers a dark mystery better left forgotten among her late grandfathers estate. Her discovery soon attracts the attention of the "Order of Dagon" a forgotten religious sect bent on the resurrection of the "Great Cthulhu" and the mythic "Elder Gods." Melissa soon finds herself trapped in a frightening world between the reality she knows and a world of darkness and myth where a forbidden and ancient secret has been kept since the dawn of man... Click here to read more. (Thanks to Steve Hergina) December 28: ARMY OF DARKNESS BoomStick Edition Here's the cover. December 24: Happy Holidays Everyone! December 18: Lovecraft films and trailers online. The following Lovecraft films and film trailers can be found online. These prove that some of the best in Lovecraft cinema is being done outside Hollywood! I will be adding more as I find them. If anyone knows of or has a film or trailer online, email me at: pickman@unfilmable.com All contents copyright their respective owners. Enjoy, Craig "Call of Dagon"
by Dave Flora December 17: Wendigo DVD released
Wendigo (2001) "When this was shown at Fantasia 2001, the reviews came back very mixed. Some found it very boring and slow, others thought it was one of the greatest horror films made in a long time. Interesting how some movies do that...Now it's your chance to decide for yourself, and make sure you read Girlcreeture's review when you're done." This film was also shown at the 2001 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) Stuart Gordon plans to direct a film based on the Wendigo story. The film will be based on the novel "Where The Chill Waits" by T. Chris Martindale. (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) December 15: Gordon's next Lovecraft adaptation? After reading several interviews with filmmaker Stuart "Re-Animator, Dagon" Gordon (including filmthreat.com and the new issue of Cinefantastique), it looks like his next Lovecraft adaptation will be "The Thing on the Doorstep". When asked (by Film Threat); "Will this chain of Lovecraft- inspired horror films continue to grow?" He had this to say; "Probably. I’m currently toying with a project based on his story, The Thing on the Doorstep. You know how they say people look more like each other the longer they’re married? Well, in this story, the people actually turn into each other. It’s Lovecraft’s ode to marriage." Jean-Paul "The Unnamable" Ouellette attempted a film version of this same story around the time he filmed "The Unnamable II" (Fangoria #106), but nothing ever came of it. (Thanks to http://www.filmthreat.com/) December 12: ANOTHER Bruce DVD!? As for Bruce coming back again, here's a new Army of Darkness DVD who think four different versions is not enough, "Announced for a March 4th debut is yet another edition of Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness (aka Evil Dead III), the two-disc "Broomstick Edition." (I think this is supposed to say Boomstick, Craig) Full details have not yet been released, other than that the set will include both the theatrical and extended cuts of the film (both previously available) and collectible packaging." (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) December 11: Horror Soundtracks Just found out that Numenorean Music, the company behind the recently released soundtrack for DAY OF THE DEAD and Tom Savini's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, will release in January the complete scores to RE-ANIMATOR and FROM BEYOND! (Thanks to http://www.gorezone.net/) December 6: ANSWER THE CALL That wonderful, caring, loving cannibal known simple as "Dan" to most submitted these nine brand-spanking new screen shots for the upcoming PC game, 'Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth'. In case you couldn't tell by the title, the game is heavily steeped in the Lovecraft mythos. Click here to see these images. Click on the little one to see it full size. For more info on the game, check out it's official site: http://www.callofcthulhu.co.uk/ie.php (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) November November 30: John Strysik's ARKHAM There's an interview with John Strysik up on the acid logic site (from October 16, 2002). In it he mentioned this upcoming project. 'On the other hand I just started a script called ARKHAM - it's an inside out re-telling of Lovecraft's THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD. That one I'm just letting it take me where it will.' The entire interview can be seen here: http://www.acidlogic.com/johnstrysik.htm (Thanks to http://www.acidlogic.com/index.htm) November 21: 'Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth' A while back you may remember our UK man on the video game scene known as Dan Whitehead dished out some info on a very cool sounding new PC game called 'Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth'. The game was said to put you right smack dab in the middle of a Lovecraft story and promised some very cool gameplay. Then, much like the Old Ones themselves, the info just disappeared. It didn't seem like the game would ever finish being made and would soon be just another cool idea left for someone else to pick up on in 5 years. But glory be to the Dark Ones, such is not the case. A press release that was issued today states the game is set for completion in the 3rd or 4th quarter of 2003, and it will be released on the Xbox as well as PC. The production team, Headfirst, are now awaiting a publisher that will have the balls to get behind it. But that's not all...it seems while being plagued with unholy issues trying to get the game completed, Headfirst already started work on it's sequel, 'Beyond the Mountains of Madness' and a possible PS2 exclusive due for the 4th quarter of 2004 (though I'm sure the PS3 will be out by then...) called 'Tainted Legacy'. Damn, that's a lotta Lovecraft. You can get a lot more info on the game, including more beautiful screenshots like this one, at the game's official site, located here: http://www.callofcthulhu.co.uk/ie.php (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) November 21: Dream-Quest News! I turned in my first
assignment for the Dream-Quest project (see Classifieds)!
It was a very enjoyable experience, and I'm looking forward to assignment
number 2. Thanks again to Edward Martin III for letting me be part of
this exciting production. If you would like to help out check the following
link: Edward is also the first person (to my knowledge) that has linked to Unfilmable.com! Thanks for your support! November 20: Del Toro Speaks! (Hellsite2 has an informative interview with Guillermo Del Toro. The following excerpt contains his thoughts on H.P. Lovecraft. To read the rest of this interesting interview click here: http://www.hellsite2.com/interview.html) Lovecraft is a big influence on Hellboy and on your work. What is the importance of Lovecraft? I love Lovecraft because he has not been done pitch-perfect in movies. And he has not been understood even for people who like horror. Sometimes they just fixate on Lovecraft being a guy that created tentacled, fishlike monsters and stuff like that. And you know, most people just see the monster aspect of his literature. And I think that what was great about Lovecraft that he inherited from people before him was the capability of saying horror has a cosmic dimension. A cosmic sized conflict that is seldom explored in literature. Meaning, man is an ant in a cosmic picnic. We're coming in to feast and thrive in the ashes of what was once already a fertile, fully realized world. A world sooo much larger than us. The awe that Lovecraft
produces by saying, before us there were
older creatures, more cruel creatures, that created life on Earth as
a
joke. And we are indebted to them without knowing and we are their
servants, and we eat their scraps. And we will be face to face with
them and realize the absolute insignificance of our plight. And how
absolutely immaterial it is if we live or die. You walk to your house
and on the way you crush ten ants. And this is literature written from
the point of view of those ants. And that has never been done except
accidentally, I think that one of the films that portrayed this difference
in dimension of horror is Alien, the first Alien, is very
Lovecraft. But
other than that, it's very rare that it's portrayed accurately. I think
another
film that did that for a good chunk of its duration was M. Night Shyamalan's
Signs. Signs has a little bit of that cosmic horror. Then
it changes and they (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) November 20: An interview with director Guillermo del Toro (Entertainment Insiders did this interview with del Toro in August, 2002. Here is what he had to say about "At the Mountains of Madness". To read the interview in it's entirety click here: http://www.einsiders.com/features/interviews/guillermodeltoro.php) KEN: That's good. The next one is, At the Mountains of Madness? DEL TORO: The movie of my life! KEN: Is that something that's coming in the future? DEL TORO: Either right after Hellboy, or two movies down. To me, Mountains of Madness is like... Titanic for me. KEN: Give me a quick breakdown of the story. DEL TORO: A group of scientists go down to Antarctica to do an investigative drill. To collect fossils. And they discover a civilization that predates anything known to man by several millions of years. It's a race of cosmic beings, that are as large as a house or as small as a man. They basically were creators of life. Accordinging to the ruins that the scientists find, they actually created life on Earth as a cosmic joke! So here we are, finding what remains of our masters, and the horror that comes from some of those creatures still being alive. (Thanks to http://www.countingdown.com/) November 18: The Colour out of Space At the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival (on October 13) director Aaron Vanek (Return to Innsmouth, The Yellow Sign and a member of the Lurkers) leaked that he would love to helm a feature version of Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space". "The Colour Out of Space" has been described as H.P. Lovecraft's favorite story, and was previously filmed as 1965's "Die Monster Die" and "The Curse" (1987). Today Aaron informed me that "It's in development." (Thanks to Aaron Vanek)
image © 2002 Guerrilla Productions Barely-alive moviemaker
Edward Martin III, in an effort to stave off the evergrowing numbness
that is Life, has decided that -- on a lark -- he must make a feature-length
adaptation of Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath".
Although his original plans called for the entire movie to use stick
figures and finger puppets, he negotiated with artist Jason Thompson
to use existing and new artwork from and inspired by Thompson's awe-inspiring
graphic novel adaptation of the same work. Award winning composer Cyoakha
Grace has also signed on to compose the haunting, surreal soundtrack.
The project is unique among feature-length Lovecraft adaptations in
that it is a distributed animation project, with animators and artists
from all over the world contributing. It's not unique in that it has
-- essentially -- a shoestring budget, something on the order of $5000.
But Edward figures having a movie is way cooler than having another
used car. People interested can sling the following URL into their browsers:
And here's a Help Wanted: (Click below to access the Dream-Quest image gallery.)
image © 2002 Jason B. Thompson (Thanks to Edward Martin III) November 17: Beyond
the Wall of Sleep (The above image is courtesy of http://www.creature-corner.com/) November 17: George Clooney's THE THING remake not happening Fango caught up with RETURN TO HORROR HIGH early-kill/actor George Clooney over the weekend and asked him about whatever happened to his FAIL SAFE follow-up, WHO GOES THERE? - a planned live-TV version of the John W. Campbell Jr. story that was the basis for THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD and, of course, JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING. "No, no," Clooney replies, shooting down the hope that the announced CBS project was still going to happen. "(Live television) requires the right project. You can't just say, 'let's do a teleplay live.' You got immediacy by the idea that it was live and there was tensions - that's why ON GOLDEN POND doesn't work. You're going to watch somebody rot to death live? So, you really need to find the right one. It's the one medium that film can't do." So, no WHO GOES THERE? from Clooney. Clooney's new film, the abstract science fictioner SOLARIS, opens on November 27th (though no word on the release date for the as-yet-unreleased GRIZZLY II: THE PREDATOR from 1987 which also starred Clooney). (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) November 16: CD Exclusive: 'Mountains' Decision Coming Soon! Director Guillermo del Toro confirmed for CountingDown recently that DreamWorks and himself will come to a decision within the week as to whether they will be the studio to bring del Toro's adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's 'At the Mountains of Madness' to the big screen! For more from del Toro, check out the link below! Click here for more on
Guillermo del Toro's future projects: (Thanks to http://www.countingdown.com/) November 15: Synapse sets LEMORA for DVD release On the heels of its successful showing at New York’s Lincoln Center, Richard Blackburn’s cult favorite LEMORA: A CHILD’S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL is now on its way to DVD. Don May Jr.’s Synapse Films will release the disc next year for the movie’s 30th anniversary. “We’re doing a high-definition, 16x9-enhanced anamorphic transfer from the original negative, supervised by Richard, who of course is also doing an audio commentary,” May tells Fango. “We are treating it with the utmost care; believe me, no one has ever seen the film look like this.” No date has been set yet, but May anticipates a summer debut, and adds that the disc will include a dedication or tribute to LEMORA’s recently deceased star Cheryl (Rainbeaux) Smith. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) November 4: Evil Dead 4 At the Chiller Theatre convention last week in New Jersey, the female stars of the series "commented that they are in talks with Sam Raimi & Bruce Campbell about a possible Evil Dead 4". (Thanks to http://www.darkhorizons.com/) November 1: RIP Cheryl (Rainbeaux) Smith Over at the Mobius Home Video Forum, it has been reported that actress Cheryl (a.k.a. Rainbeaux) Smith passed away October 25 from complications of hepatitis. The actress, whose LEMORA: A CHILD'S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL recently played at the Lincoln Center horror festival (and is the subject of a FANGORIA retrospective in an upcoming issue), is also remembered for films such as MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH, REVENGE OF THE CHEERLEADERS, CAGED HEAT and many others. You can read more details here: http://www.mhvf.net/forum/cult/posts/15168.html (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) October October 31: DAGON DAGON is one of the greatest horror movies ever made and certainly the greatest adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft`s literature. See, Lovecraft is one of the toughest writers to crack because his obssessions are so dark and vivid that the cinematic horror overcomes the basic suspense and becomes a surreal nightmare. This is why deadpan adaptation by Corman and Curtis Hanson didn`t cut it with DUNWICH HORROR and Stuart Gordon`s RE-ANIMATOR worked on another level which had nothing to do with Lovecraft`s original concept. Stuart Gordon is very near to solving the case in DAGON. Even though this isn`t actually the film Lovecraft would authorize, it`s pretty damn close. The story of two contemporary civilans meeting the strange breed of marine god worshippers is done with unmatched energy. This film grips you and never lets go. It even never misses to be spot-on when it comes to measuring the number of accents and inteludes. The main thing about this film is Gordon`s direction. He perfectly controls the style of this film. It sure does get funny at times but it ain`t because of attempted humour. To the contrary, it gets funny because it is to scary to actually scare you. It makes you look for the bright side, as if when you get into trouble and try to be optimistic. The acting is top-notch. The main role was obviously tailor made for Jeffrey Combs but he is too old now and Ezra Gooden made it as good as Combs would. The whole point with this cast of mostly unknowns is that these characters are not presented by performers. You don`t get distracted by all the movies you detect when you see actor`s face. You don`t get distracted by their virtousity. It`s just that acting is so good that DAGON feels like a stylish documentary. Brilliant. Gordon`s framing is perfect and he not only gets the most out of the moderate budget but he also manages to make this budget look perfectly fitting. Because the more expensive movie would be studio controled and cut. This one can be released on whatever format and still make enough money to repay itself. This is why Spanish labels Filmax and Fantastic Factory pretty much rule my world. God bless, Ethan (Thanks to Ain't
It Cool News October 28: Jeffrey Combs
joins NYC Weekend of Horrors
Exclusive Preview: BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR http://www.fangoria.com/fearful_feature.php?id=541 (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) October 28: Remakes and Sequels? John Carpenter and Debra Hill are reportedly looking around for cash to fund a remake of "The Fog." ... Universal, meanwhile, is interested in making a sequel to "The Thing" with Kurt Russell. However, Carpenter might not get involved in that project. ... (Thanks to http://www.esplatter.com/) September September 6: Segura & others join BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR Well-known Spanish star Santiago Segura (DAY OF THE BEAST, TORRENTE, BLADE II) has joined the cast of the now-lensing BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR. The long-awaited sequel's other leads include Spanish thespians Elsa (EL ARTE DE MORIR) Pataky and Simón (BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE) Andreu, as well as Irish actor Jason Barry. Despite what you read here, actor Danny Nucci is not in the film; Barry, not Nucci, is the TITANIC veteran on board. Producer/director Brian Yuzna will be shooting the prison-set BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR in Barcelona and Valencia till the end of October, with frequent collaborator Screaming Mad George (SOCIETY, BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR) handling the FX. Spain's José Manuel Gómez tackles the scripting chores, from a story by FRIGHT NIGHT II's Miguel Tejada-Flores. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) September 1: Combs talks BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR, reveals co-star At the junket for FEAR DOT COM, which opens today, Jeffrey Combs told Fango that he would "probably, probably be on a plane next week" headed for Barcelona to shoot BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR. "The premise of it is that Dan Cain turned state's evidence and Herbert West has been in prison this whole time," explains Combs. "But, on the night that he was taken by the police at the end of the last movie, there was a young boy in a camp-out in his backyard, and without giving too much away, I, surreptitiously dropped some of my fluid - not my bodily fluid - my re-animating fluid on the ground before I'm put into the police car. So, this boy - you jump-cut and he's now grown and has gone to medical school and has pulled some strings to be assigned to be the physician at the prison so that he can connect up with the infamous Dr. West and get to the bottom of what exactly this is." After two movies and so many years later, audiences can rest assured that only one thing is still on West's mind. "I think Herbert is something of a guy who just doesn't change, frankly," Combs admits. "I think he's in a relentless pursuit of whatever it is and I think it's just a matter of overcoming whatever obstacles are in front of him, so needless to say, though he's in prison, I still think he's pursuing new avenues of his work and has new theories on how he can improve upon on what he's trying to do. On the other hand, what I want to explore is there has to be a certain element of frustration and anger at being incarcerated for so long - unjustly, I might add!" Joining Jeffrey Combs in the movie will be Danny Nucci (Combs said that it was the kid who boarded the Titanic with DiCaprio in TITANIC and I believe that actor was indeed Danny Nucci, who was also in FIRESTARTER 2: REKINDLED)(Okay, so that proved false - it is actually Jason Barry who will take the role as we learn here) playing the young doctor. As for its chances to be seen on the big screen stateside (particularly after the quite good DAGON was unjustly denied a theatrical release), but Combs remains optimistic. "I think it's theatrical in some places in the world, certainly Spain, but U.S., that's what Brian's hope is, that it would get a theatrical release, but whether or not it will is up to how good it is, I guess," Combs says. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) August August 25: More on Del Toro's MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS At Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors, Guillermo del Toro gave even more of a peek into his upcoming post-HELLBOY Lovecraft adaptation, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, as well as an update about where the script is currently. "We're writing right now, my partner Matthew Robbins and I, on the weekends," says del Toro. "I work on HELLBOY Monday through Friday, then he comes from San Francisco. We lock ourselves up on the weekends, work on the story. He's going to do the screenplay while I'm gone." "There's a huge aspect of Lovecraft that has never been captured on film. Never," del Toro explains. "What we're doing, is we're trying to preserve-if you read the book, the book is 90 percent atmosphere. It's not a book about a concrete act and there's not an arc, there's not an escalation. There's no structure really, so what we're doing is we're trying to capture the Lovecraft sensibility and feeling, but putting in the coolest fucking monsters ever committed to film." Though many artists have tackled Lovecraftian monsters, del Toro suggests that, like in movies such as JAWS or ALIEN, they won't ever really be seen in MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS. "That's one thing-you will not seem them that clearly for most of the movie, but you will get glimpses," del Toro enthuses. "The whole movie, the main plot takes place during an Arctic storm, so when they step out of their little tents, it's limbo. It's white. And something comes out of the white and grabs them. There's a great scene where a guy falls under the ice and he's drowning, but the creatures are above. So, you never get a three hundred and sixty-degree panorama of the creature, but you get a lot of the feeling." (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) August 13: Del Toro talks AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS At this year's San Diego International Comic Con, director Guillermo del Toro talked about his upcoming big-budget adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's classic novella AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS that he's working on with his MIMIC co-writer, Matthew Robbins. "What is great about that one is no one has done that kind of Lovecraft right," del Toro enthuses. "No one has really tried to make Gothic monsters and cities and the dimension of existing in a world that is basically the breadcrumbs of a cosmic picnic. We're here because someone made a little joke. That's the whole credo of Lovecraft. Some creatures created life on Earth as a joke. It's really just a perspective that is rarely or never seen on film. So, we're trying very hard to get that. It will take a while." As Lovecraft's work has been interpreted and re-interpreted by artists throughout the years, the marriage to del Toro, who focuses a lot of his attention on concept art and production design, seems like a no- brainer. In fact, del Toro is already recruiting his team. "The book is difficult because if you've read it, it's all atmospheres," del Toro explains. "These atmospheres are a very big thing. What we're doing-- Mike (Mignola) will be there, but of fucking course, and Wayne Barlowe will be there, but the next person that I called immediately was Gahan Wilson because that is a guy who knows Lovecraft back and forth. So, I'm talking to him, too, to come and join the team to come up with ideas and have them create a real Lovecraftian universe. That's what stage it's at right now. I said to the studios, look, to me, this is my TITANIC. This is the biggest thing I will ever do in my life. It's huge, it's difficult, we will shoot in the glaciers, I will probably lose a lot of weight." Finally, for hardcore Lovecraft fans that may think a filmic adaptation of MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS could never cross over without big changes, del Toro made a point of saying how closely he wants to follow the book. "I can tell you it's not your regular horror movie from Hollywood," del Toro says. "With MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS we're doing the best to give you the sense of the Lovecraft mythology and if it doesn't work,if the studios don't see it, we will not do it. We will not do an alternate. I will not change that. We're doing it 'period' because I think the worst thing you can do to Lovecraft is set it in the present day. The whole thing takes place exactly in the time of the expedition with the people in the expedition and we're doing it faithful to the book." (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) August 8: Jeffrey Combs: BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR finally happening After several years of planning on the part of director/producer Brian Yuzna and anticipation on the part of the fans, it looks like the third RE- ANIMATOR film is finally ready to roll in Spain as part of Yuzna and Julio Fernández's Fantastic Factory lineup. Series star Jeffrey Combs' participation has always seemed to be a given, but the actor tells Fango that such was not the case. "I have for three-plus years denied that I have a deal for BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR," Combs states. "It goes to show you that the Internet can give you bad information. The Internet Movie Database had stated as fact that I am doing it and, up until this point, I could not say that it was true. But it looks like we're getting ever closer to my doing it now. I don't have a deal memo yet, but we're now agreeing on some things that up until now we had not agreed upon, if you catch my drift. "So we are getting close to BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR happening, but it has been kind of frustrating for me," he continues. "My desire on this project all along was to be on it and involved from the ground floor. For whatever reasons, that has not happened, much to my chagrin. At this point I am going to show up and do what I can rather than be a part of the whole creative process. But it looks like it is coming together." A much older Combs project that fans still wonder about is PULSEPOUNDERS, a horror anthology shot way back in the '80s which to this point remains uncompleted. (While the IMDb lists a 2002 release date, no official announcement has been made regarding its completion or distribution.) "PULSEPOUNDERS is a real curiosity," Combs says. "It's a movie--or a segment of a trilogy--that I did back in the 1980s while over in Italy. As far as I knew, that movie never got finished. Empire Pictures, Charlie Band's company at the time, tanked. So that film was in pieces and incomplete, and so far as I'd heard just lost in the wars. Now it's showing up on the Internet as something that's coming out. I did my segment soon after RE-ANIMATOR with Barbara Crampton, the late David Gale and David Warner. Other than the dailies I saw at the time, I never heard or saw anything about it again until information about it suddenly turned up on the Internet. So who knows about that. Maybe the next time I talk to Charlie Band, I'll ask him about it. "I was in a segment called 'The Evil Clergyman,' based on a Lovecraft story," he continues. "They did a short TRANCERS/Jack Deth story which I think Helen Hunt was in. And they did one more with Richard Moll, based on another Empire Pictures movie [DUNGEONMASTER] that had been successful. So it would have been three little odd and hastily connected pieces. They'd all been shot, but they were never able to finish them up. So it would be interesting to see if that does come out-- and if it does, well, Charlie owes me some money." (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) July July 9: Lovecraft film SHUNNED HOUSE is coming Italy's Ivan Zuccon, writer/director of the Lovecraft-inspired THE BEYOND and UNKNOWN BEYOND (the latter due on video this fall from Leo Films), has just wrapped his latest H.P. Lovecraft pastiche, THE SHUNNED HOUSE. "It's a combination of three Lovecraft short stories: 'The Shunned House,' 'The Music of Erich Zann' and 'Dreams in the Witch-House,' " Zuccon tells Fango. "The stories are set in the same place but in three different ages: the ' 20s, the '40s and today. The audience will be thrown back and forth in time following the action, which links the three stories together. "Present and past lodgers, unaware of the dark secrets and the plot wrapped up around them, walk helplessly in the snare laid by who's-or what's-been living in the inn for centuries and made it a kingdom of blood and horror," Zuccon adds. The film is being shot in both English and Italian versions. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) |
