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April
26: New Flesh of my Flesh teaser online!
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Click
here
to check out the new trailer for Guerrilla
Productions's Flesh
of my Flesh! The teaser premiers at
this weekends Zompire Film Festival (see:
April 22 for details)...
The
film, now in post-production, chronicles the
last hours of the War of the Undead, as told
through the eyes of the people trapped in
the middle. In the teaser, Ron Richardson
starring as Doctor Herbert West, explains
a few of the facts of life. Director Edward
Martin III says of the teaser, "We're
very excited about this project, and I'm really
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we can show a trailer that even creeps US out,
and still keeps secret things secret." |
(Thanks
to Edward Martin III)
April
25: Back From Beyond
The
May issue (# 56) of Rue
Morgue covers the long-awaited Director's
Cut of Stuart Gordon's classic, From Beyond!
The film, premiering next month on Monsters HD,
contains material that had been removed to satisfy
the MPAA. In the RM interview, Stuart talks
about how the footage was recovered and restored...
Stars
Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton and screenwriter
Dennis Paoli also discuss the making of the film...
The
magazine also contains an article on Lovecraft's
Providence...
(Thanks
to Eric Morgret)
April
24: Stuart Gordon speaks of Poe and the White House
At
a recent Masters of Horror get-together,
Stuart Gordon spoke of his future plans with Jeffrey
Combs...
"Jeffrey
Combs is hoping to be in my next episode of Masters
of Horror," says Gordon. "I’m
doing Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat. I've
asked Mr. Combs to play Mr. Poe, and we hope to
do another Re-Animator, which is set
in the White House."
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
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April 23: The Strange Sound of Cthulhu!
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Gary
Hill and the Music Street Journal will release
a new book later this year called "The
Strange Sound of Cthulhu - Music Inspired
by the Writings of H.P. Lovecraft".
Over a year and a half in the making, the
book will include a forward by Lovecraft expert
S.T. Joshi, and cover a wide variety of bands
(and genres), including The Unquiet Void,
Gwar, Mekong Delta, Black Sabbath, Metallica,
Fields of the Nephilim and the Darkest of
the Hillside Thickets. Info on the bands (and
their music) will include a question and answer
segment with the artist, a history of the
group focusing on their Lovecraft based contributions,
a description of the music (each song), excerpts
from the lyrics and an analysis of how the
lyrics connect to Lovecraft's work...
Chapters
include: H.P. Lovecraft: The Man and his
Musical Legacy, Peace, Love, Dunwich:
H.P.L.s Influence In Psychedelic Rock,
Miskatonic Mellotrons Progressive Rock
and H.P. Lovecraft, The Crunch Meets
Cthulhu: Heavy Metal and Lovecraft Part One
any many more (14 chapters in all). The roughly
300-page book will street on August 20th (Lovecraft's
birthday) and retail for $24.99. Cover art
was designed by Joseph Vargo (Nox Arcana)...
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Visit
the Music
Street Journal on MySpace for further details.
(Thanks to Gary Hill)
April
23: The Shadow-Haunted Outside
Jason
Wallach will be premiering 4 tracks from the Unquiet
Void's forthcoming CD, The Shadow-Haunted Outside,
on MySpace Sunday. The CD is the second (after Poisoned
Dreams) in a planned trilogy of Lovecraft inspired
albums. The tracks will be available for one week
only...
You
can find The Unquiet Void's MySpace page here.
(Thanks
to Jason Wallach)
April
22: Zompire: The Undead Film Festival
For
Immediate Release:
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"Vampires
are just zombies that look better"
-- producer Brian Yuzna
From
the creators of the annual H.P. Lovecraft
Film Festival (http://www.hplfilmfestival.com),
comes a new film festival for the northwest
celebrating all things undead. Join us for
our first annual gathering in Portland Oregon
in the historic Hollywood Theatre on April
28th and 29th. Come spend a weekend with the
undead watching cult classics like "Dead
Alive" by Peter Jackson (director
of Lord of the Rings and King Kong)
and the 1980's vampire fan favorite "Fright
Night" starring Chris Sarandon.
Feature
films will include: On Friday April 28th Vampire
night starting at 7pm: "Fright Night",
"Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter",
and a special secret screening. On Saturday
Zombie night starting at 7pm: "Night
of the Comet", "Dead Alive"
and the cult classic "Return of the
Living Dead".
Shorts and Trailers will play before each
main feature including shorts by local Portland
filmmakers such as "Con of the Dead",
and a peak at "Flesh
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Evening
passes are $10 on Friday and $12 on Saturday.
The
Hollywood Theatre is located in Portland, OR on
4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd., near the cross-streets of
NE Broadway and 41st Avenue.
Get
all the details at http://www.zompire.com
Artwork by Lee Moyer
(Thanks
to Andrew Migliore)
April
22: Finally, it's Ash vs. Jason!
Click here
to watch Ash vs. Jason, created (through
clever editing) by writer/director Ryan Schifrin
(Abominable)...
(Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)
April 21: More Call pics!
| photos courtesy
of Dale Snowberger |
Here
are several more images from the set of Aaron Vanek's
forthcoming short, The Call of Tu-tu!
Included are pictures of 'the set' and Aaron with
actress Jennifer Knighton...
Unfilmable.com
correspondent Bob Brinkman also pointed out that
The Call (see:
April 13) and The Call of Tu-tu are
actually one and the same!
(Thanks
to Aaron Vanek and Bob Brinkman)
April
19: Call of Tu-tu: behind-the-scenes!
photo courtesy
of Jennifer Knighton
Here's a behind-the-scenes
look at Aaron Vanek's The Call of Tu-tu.
Aaron (on the left) is pictured with actor Dale
Snowberger...
(Thanks to Aaron Vanek)
April 19: Images From Beyond!
Here are more great images
from Michael
Granberry's From Beyond!
(Thanks
to Michael Granberry)
April
19: Cosmic trailer online!
The teaser trailer for Woodruff Laputka's experimental
short film, The Yawning Abyssm of a Horrible
Cosmic Possibility, is now online...
Check it out here!
(Thanks to Woodruff Laputka)
April 18: Cultcuts reviews Witch-House
Cultcutsfilms.com
reviews Stuart Gordon's Dreams in the Witch-House
here...
(Thanks
to http://www.cultcutsfilms.com/)
April
17: The Call of Tu-tu!
Aaron
Vanek (Return to Innsmouth, The Yellow
Sign) is shooting a new Lovecraftian short called
The Call of Tu-tu this Tuesday. The
screenplay was written by Richard Becker, and Dale
Snowberger (The Yellow Sign) is set to star.
Aaron will be shooting in Super 8 film...
The
story-line revolves around a man in an asylum who
has a story to tell...
(Thanks
to Aaron Vanek)
coming
soon to Unfilmable.com...
The
Yawning Abyssm of a Horrible Cosmic Possibility,
a short film by Woodruff Laputka
April
15: The Eldritch Gazette interviews Bryan
Moore!
Woodruff Laputka (a name you'll be seeing a lot
more of in these pages) has started MySpace.com's
first (and finest) Lovecraftian film page called
The Eldritch Gazette. The page is full of
news; reviews, links and frequent blog updates,
but the meat of the site will be the monthly issue
of The Eldritch Gazette! The first issue
just hit the web, and it contains (among other things)
an interview with Cool Air writer/director
Bryan Moore and a review of Unfilmable Films Read
Me a Story. There are also a couple of short
stories, several more reviews, and a comparative
essay on Stuart Gordon's Film Dagon and H.P.
Lovecrafts tale The Shadow Over Innsmouth...
Click here
for all this and more!
(Thanks
to Woodruff Laputka)
April
15: New Lurker discs forthcoming!
Lurker Films will release Volume 1 of the Weird
Tale Collection this summer (possibly in time
for the Fangora Weekend of Horrors). The DVD will
include Aaron Vanek's feature The Yellow Sign...
Volume 4 of the H.P. Lovecraft Collection
is also in the work for sometime this summer. Several
versions of Pickman's Model and Geoffrey
Clark's animated In the Vault will be included...
(Thanks to http://www.lurkerfilms.com/)
April
15: Lovecraft at the World Horror Con
The World Horror Con (May 11-14 in San Francisco)
will screen Aaron Vanek's The Yellow Sign
and the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's The
Call of Cthulhu.
Click here
for more...
(Thanks to Aaron Vanek)
April
13: The Lurker From Below
A
new short film called The Lurker From Below
is currently location scouting in the Phoenix, Arizona
area. Writer/director Rolando Gutierrez has finished
the script, and stop-motion animation models and
sets are currently being built. The 20-minute film
will be shot on DV and could be part of an anthology
(containing four shorts) with a wrap around, not
unlike Brian Yuzna's Necronomicon...
Updates
coming soon!
(Thanks
to Rolando Gutierrez)
April
13: From Beyond is finished!
Michael
Granberry dropped me a line to say that his stop-motion
adaptation of From Beyond is finished (and
to provide the cool new image you see here)! A copy
of the film has been sent to the H.P. Lovecraft
Film Festival, so hopefully it will make it's big
screen debut this fall!
(Thanks
to Michael Granberry)
April
13: More Colour from Out of Space!
Even
before Frank Difficult officially announced the
demise of his adaptation of The Call of Cthulhu
(see April 7th), he began work on Lovecraft's
The Colour Out of Space! The script is finished
and financing is currently being sought. Frank told
Unfilmable.com that, "The House of Wrong's
The Color Out of Space will be an faithful adaptation
- keeping the same story set in the original location
and time. I will let you know more as we progress..."
(Thanks
to Frank Difficult)
April
13: Do you hear The Call? ~
updated ~
Bob
Brinkman sends word that a new Lovecraft inspired
short film will begin production in the coming weeks.
The film, titled The Call, is being shot
in and around LA...
Details
as they become available.
update: Bob Brinkman
has pointed out that The Call and Aaron Vanek's
The Call of Tu-tu (see: April 17,19
and 21) are actually the same project...
(Thanks
to Bob Brinkman)
April
13: Miskatonic site gets overhauled!
Dark
Lord Rob has just overhauled the Miskatonic Acid
Test site will all kinds of 60's coolness! He
say's the animation on the 'cast page' was [somewhat]
inspired by the titled sequence for The Dunwich
Horror and several new mp3s have been added
to the download page including "Come to
Arkham" and "Erich Zann".
There are also a great deal of images and lobby
cards like the one you see above...
The film is currently in post-production with editing
being the main focus. The projected finish date
is early May...
Check out the new, improved site here!
(Thanks to Dark Lord Rob)
April
13: Cogswell talks Cthulhu
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Fangoria.com
has all the latest on writer/producer Grant
Cogswell's adaptation of Lovecraft's "The
Shadow Over Innsmouth", titled Cthulhu.
The film, budgeted at about $750,000, is currently
in post-production with a completion date set
for July. Grant doesn't reveal Cthulhu's monster
(saying that it's "classified material"),
he does say however, that FX lab Modern Digital
(Skeleton Man) is responsible for creating it.
He also talks about the films onscreen violence
and how he hopes they've "done it in
a way that takes it seriously." He
goes on to say, "I hate this parallel
movie world with offhand killing that doesn’t
muss a hairdo or raise a pulse. Real violence
exists in an atmosphere of extremity, one which
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represent. It’s terrible, and should be
truthfully rendered. If you saw someone killed,
it would physically shock you. I hope the violence
in our film has that sickening, repellent quality." |
Grant
also relates several stories about why they chose
to film in Oregon (instead of the East Coast), among
them, "A very nice Satanist [originally
from Astoria], with subcutaneous horns on his forehead,
told us that he believed Astoria to be the real
Innsmouth, citing about 40 uncanny resemblances
between the Oregon area and the fictional town."
and how there was, "…a Coast Guard
cutter tied up near a dock where we were shooting
called the Alert. In Lovecraft’s story 'The
Call of Cthulhu,' the crew that discovers the lost
city of R’lyeh is on a merchant ship called
the Alert. We didn’t notice until we were editing
the film. What the hell are the chances of that?"
The
films stars Jason Cottle, Tori Spelling and Cara
Buono, and with any luck, could see a theatrical
release in the fall of 2006...
You
can find the official site here,
and the rest of the interview (with casting, music,
production news and more) can be found here!
(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/)
April
13: New Lurker in the Lobby on the horizon!
Night
Shade Books will release the second edition of Andrew
Migliore and John Strysik's "The Lurker
in the Lobby: The Guide to Lovecraftian Cinema"
on May 2nd...
The
book will cover feature films, television shows,
independent films, and include interviews with Guillermo
del Toro, John Carpenter (among others). There is
also a 16 page full-color section with work by Richard
Corben, Bernie Wrightson and more. Cover art is
by Lee Moyer.
Priced
at $19.95, you can pre-order it here...
(Thanks
to John Strysik)
April
13: Cool Air in post!
Albert
Pyun gave fangoria.com the latest on several of
his current projects, among them, Cool Air.
According to Pyun, the film is currently being edited...
No release date was mentioned, but I'll keep you
posted!
(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/)
April
13: Official Host poster
While I don't think the film is intentionally Lovecraftian,
I couldn't help but post the new poster for Joon-ho's
film, The Host...
...the
storyline revolves around a carnivorous mutant in
Seoul's Han River that attacks city residents.
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
April
13: New Halfway House review...
You
can read a new review of Ken Hall's The Halfway
House here,
courtesy of Trash Film Orgy...
(Thanks
to Kenneth J. Hall)
April
13: Cthulhu reviewed...
Click
here
to read the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Press review
of The Call of Cthulhu…
Sean
Branney also informed me today that the film is
still going strong in the festival circuit with
an upcoming screening in Denmark.
(Thanks
to Hodgson and Sean Branney)
April
10: LovecraCked and Story screenings!
Rottwieler
Productions presents the first annual Graveyard
Smash Film Festival in Wooster, Ohio. Located at
the Big Picture Theater, the festival will take
place on Saturday, April 29th. Among the films slated
to appear are BiFF JUGGERNAUT Productions LovecraCked!
The Movie and Unfilmable Films Read Me
a Story…
There will be a full awards ceremony, and winning
filmmakers will be presented with Rottwieler Productions
own SawBone award! FX Make-up artist Ricky Lee and
director Len K (Killer Wolf Films) will be on hand
to sign autographs and there will also be a costume
contest and dealer's room …
The festival starts at 12:00 pm, and tickets go
for $5 in advance ($7 day of show). A full schedule
will be posted a week before the show…
Film
submission info can be found here.
(Thanks
to Dustin Austen)
April
10: Mortuary streets tomorrow...
A
reminder…
Echo
Bridge Entertainment will release Tobe Hooper's
Mortuary on DVD tomorrow.
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
April
7: Cthulhu Rises no more...
Frank Difficult has informed me that Cthulhu
Rising is no longer in development. Details
to come...
(Thanks to Frank Difficult)
...I've updated the Forthcoming
Terrors pages...
April 6: New Colour Out of Space film in
the works!
Dustin Austen sends word that
Rottwieler Productions (out of Wooster, Ohio) are
currently in the script-writing stages on a new
adaptation of The Colour Out of Space. Dustin
states that they are interested in doing a faithful
rendering of Lovecraft's tale, but that some elements
of the story have been changed. The script will
also contain elements of John W. Campbell's "Who
Goes There?"…
Dustin tells Unfilmable.com that the film will,
"…center on a group of Miskatonic science
and media students who are sent to document and
experiment with an mysterious asteroid that has
fallen on a small farm in Arkham. Of course the
infernal thing that lives in the well soon begins
spreading its otherworldly infection throughout
the group. As their minds and bodies begin to fall
apart they are forced to fear both the unspeakable
horror in the well as well as each other."
Production is slated for this summer, so look for
possible set visits by Unfilmable.com!
In
the meantime, you can visit Rottwieler Productions
official
website for more...
(Thanks
to Dustin Austen)
April 6: Night of the Evil Dead!
For Immediate Release:
Head Productions presents
a midnight screening of Sam Raimi's The Evil
Dead at the Midway Cinema in Elyria, Ohio. The
screening takes place Saturday, April 22nd, and
doors open at 10 pm. Tickets are $12.00 in advance
and $15.00 day of show. FX artist Tom Sullivan will
be on hand with his Evil Dead museum and
actress Ellen "Cheryl" Sandweiss will
be there signing autographs...
Fore more information, call (440)-324-2578 or (440)-324-2580.
(Thanks to Head Productions)
April 6: Fango's Mortuary set visit...
Click here
for a taste of fangoria.com's Mortuary
set visit...
(Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/)
April 5: Really Scary Stuart Gordon interview
Stuart
Gordon talks Dreams in the Witch-House,
The Black Cat, the From Beyond director's
cut and more courtesy of reallyscary.com...
(Thanks
to http://www.reallyscary.com/)
April
5: The Love Craft awaits!
Maelstrom
Productions brilliant Lovecraft inspired parody
The Love Craft is now online for everyone
to see! The short film debuted at the 2004 H.P.
Lovecraft Film Festival and was previously only
available on their Thing on the Doorstep
DVD...
Check
it out here!
(Thanks
to Maelstrom
Productions)
April
5: Wall of Sleep release date announced!
~ updated ~
Fangoria.com reports that Lions
Gate Entertainment will release Thom Maurer
and Barrett Klausman's Beyond
the Wall of Sleep (co-starring Tom Savini
and William Sanderson) June 6th. The DVD will include
a filmmaker commentary.
Update:
Dread
Central did some digging and came up with the remainder
of the BtWoS DVD special features. Along
with the already mentioned director's commentary,
the disc will include an anamorphic transfer of
the film, a featurette called "Talking Heads",
a storyboard gallery, and various trailers...
(Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/
and Dread
Central)
April
5: Lovecraft's Hostile Hauntings!
Pendulum
Pictures will re-release
Ivan Zuccon's The Shunned House and Steve
Sessions Hellbound: Book of the Dead
(aka Cadaver Bay) on their Hostile Hauntings
DVD collection. Accompanied by four other films
(none of which are Lovecraft inspired), the
DVD will retail for $9.98 and street April 18th.
Click here
for more...
(Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/)
April 4: Evil Dead DVD news...
Frank
Woodward (producer of the "Working with
a Master" segments on the Masters of
Horror DVDs) spoke with Dread Central recently
and revealed that he was conducting interviews for
the Evil Dead 25th Anniversary Edition
(to be released later this year) when he was approached
to work on MoH. The interviews will be part
of a new featurette, and will focus on how the film
has influenced the careers of several as yet unnamed
horror icons...
Horror
Movies.ca also caught up with Book of the
Dead creator Tom Sullivan, who announced that
the DVD will feature a brand-new transfer and come
packaged in a mini cabin...
(Thanks to Dread
Central)
...you still have almost a
month to submit those pictures for the Starry
Wisdom contest! Click here
for details...
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