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December
31: Mortuary in theaters!
Fangoria.com
reports that director Tobe Hooper’s Mortuary
will get a limited theatrical run at six Fresno,
California locations. The film will be released
on Friday, January 13 and may go wider depending
on grosses. The distributor, Echo Bridge Entertainment,
also has Mortuary slated for DVD, but a date
has yet to be announced.
Visit
the official
website for theater locations and more...
(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/)
December
29: Witch House DVD extras announced!
Dread
Central did some digging and came up with a list
of extras for Stuart Gordon's "Dreams in
the Witch House" DVD! The following extras
will be on the March 28th release:
~
"Dreams, Darkness and Damnation:
An Interview with Stuart Gordon"
~ Behind The Scenes: The Making of "Dreams
in the Witch House"
~ SFX: Meet Brown Jenkin
~ Audio commentary by writer/director Stuart Gordon,
Actor Ezra Godden and DVD Producer Perry Martin
~ Trailers
~ Still Gallery
~ Storyboard Gallery
~ Stuart Gordon Bio
~ Original Screenplay (DVD-ROM)
~ "Dreams in the Witch House" by
H.P. Lovecraft (DVD-ROM)
~ Screen savers (DVD-ROM)
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
December
29: Lovecraftian films make years best...
Several
Lovecraft inspired films made bloody-disgusting.com's
best of 2005 lists including Dead Birds,
The Halfway House and Marebito. The
remake of The Fog made the worst list...
Click
here
for the complete listings...
(Thanks
to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)
December
29: Another Creature script review
Click
here
for Dread Central's script review for the upcoming
Creature from the Black Lagoon remake...
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
Happy
Holidays from Unfilmable.com!
December 21: Creature script review...
Latino
Review posted an exclusive script review of the
Creature from the Black Lagoon remake. The
screenplay was written by Gary Ross, and will be
directed by Breck Eisner...
You can read it here...
(Thanks
to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)
December
21: Mortuary DVD details!
While
there are still no plans for a US release, you can
now pre-order the 2 disc German release (region
2) for Tobe Hooper's Lovecraftian zombie film, Mortuary.
The street date is February 3rd, 2006, and specs
include English and German audio, Hooper's commentary,
a "making of" featurette, an interactive
zombie game, and more. Click here
for further specs (in German) or to pre-order it...
The
film’s official site has also been updated
with a new Flash intro (containing a certain quote
from a certain author!), new images (under the 'Press'
section) and a new international trailer (although
it doesn't seem to be working at the moment). Check
it out here...
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
December
20: Hellboy vs. the Fairy world?
According
to Dread Central, Guillermo del Toro gave Empire
Online the plot for the upcoming sequel to Hellboy:
"It’s
about the fairy world and the mythical creatures
all rebelling against humanity and saying it’s
the end of mankind and it’s the season for
the sons of the Earth. And basically Hellboy has
to try to repress or suppress that rebellion."
The
film is still being budgeted, so no start date has
been announced...
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
December
20: Silent Cthulhu reviewed
The
Dunwich Herald reviews H.P. Lovecraft Historical
Society's The Call of Cthulhu in their latest
issue. You can read it by clicking here...
Fangoria.com
also mentions Cthulhu's appearance at the
forthcoming Slamdance Film Festival here...
(Thanks
to The
Dunwich Herald and http://www.fangoria.com/)
December
20: More Marebito news and reviews...
Dread
Central reports that Moviefone has another extended
clip from Taksashi Shimizu's Marebito. Check
it out here...
Upcominghorrormovies.com,
fangoria.com
and Dread
Central all have recent reviews for Marebito...
(Thanks
to Dread
Central, http://www.fangoria.com/
and http://www.upcominghorrormovies.com/)
December
19: Cthulhu trailer surfaces
The new Cthulhu (directed by Dan Gildark
and starring Tori Spelling) trailer is now online!
Check
it out here...
(Thanks
to Grant Cogswell)
December 19: Ray Harryhausen POE project update
Creature-corner.com reports that the Ray Harryhausen
produced adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The
Pit and the Pendulum (directed by Marc Lougee)
could premier as soon as February/March 2006 (in
select cities)...
The
official website can be found here.
(Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/)
December 19: New animated
Conan adventure (non-Mythos
news!)
Robert E. Howard's most famous creation, Conan,
is starring in a new animated adventure based on
the story Red Nails. Conan will be voiced
by Ron Perlman (Hellboy).
The
official
website has news, character profiles, images
and more.
(Thanks to Aaron Vanek)
December
14: Witch House DVD news!
According
to Dread Central, Anchor Bay will release Stuart
Gordon’s Dreams in the Witch House on
March 28th. No features have been announced...
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
December
13: Are you ready for Spook Wars?
Writer/director
Rob Sibley informed me recently that his feature
film based on and around Lovecraft's "The
Nameless City" is no more. Funding on the
project fell through, and it has been put on the
back burner for now...
Rob
hasn't let this obstacle stop him though as he has
already begun production on his next Lovecraft inspired
project, Spook Wars! Loosely based on "The
Call of Cthulhu", the film will be shot
over a six month period starting in the summer of
2006. Look for a more detailed look at the production
in the next week or so...
(Thanks
to Rob Sibley)
December
13: Lovecraft by the Lakeside!
Bob
Brinkman reports that a new Lovecraft inspired short
film, written and directed by Neil Sarver, is currently
lensing in Seattle! The film, called Lakeside,
revolves around a girl who moves to a small town
and falls for the wrong guy, a fellow who is a member
of a cult who worships an ancient and unnamed God.
The official website can be found here.
The site includes stills, cast and crew info, a
store, a message board and more.
Updates
as they become available...
(Thanks
to Bob Brinkman)
December
13: SciFi reviews Cthulhu!
Click
here
to read scifi.com's very positive review of the
H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society's adaptation
of "The Call of Cthulhu".
The
film has recently been selected to screen at the
Weekend
of Fear Film Festival in Erlangen, Germany...
(Thanks
to Bob Brinkman)
December
13: 'Tis the Season once again!
Enjoy
the horror of the holidays with twenty-five of your
favorite seasonal songs infused with an insane dose
of the Cthulhu Mythos. Click here
for more...
(Thanks
to http://www.cthulhulives.org/)
December
10: Zann gets a new home
Anna
Gawrilow's stop-motion animated short, The Music
of Erich Zann, has a new home on the web. The
8 minute short, which premiered October 25th, can
now be found here.
The
new website contains images and downloads from the
film, as well as sections on the puppets, the set,
crew info, and the making of...
(Thanks
to Anna Gawrilow)
December
7: Call of Cthulhu to screen at Slamdance 2006
Call
of Cthulhu has been selected as one of eleven
films to screen in the Narrative Feature Competition
at Slamdance 2006. It was chosen (along with 99
other films) out of over 3,000 submissions.
Click
here
for more...
(Thanks
to Mike Tice)
December
7: CoC composer interviewed
Click
here
to read an interview with the composer from Call
of Cthulhu...
(Thanks
to Steve Walker)
December
7: Cthulhu on hiatus
Screenwriter
Grant Cogswell recently updated me on the status
of the feature length film, Cthulhu. The
Arkham NW Production (based around The Shadow
Over Innsmouth and the Cthulhu Mythos stories)
is currently on hiatus during the holidays, and
production on the $450,000 + film will commence
in the new year.
According
to Grant, "The cast is terrific, in particular
the highly underrated Tori Spelling."
Editing
of the 24 hrs of footage shot so far (in Astoria,
WA) is currently underway, so expect an updated
trailer soon. The official
website has also been updated with cast and
crew info, images, music, and a blog from the production...
(Thanks
to Grant Cogswell)
December
7: Peter Jackson's Madness?
Ain't
It Cool News reports that Peter Jackson and Universal
are in talks with Guillermo Del Toro about directing
the video game adaptation of HALO (which
Jackson will produce). This is only of note because
(as AICN mentions), "Guillermo hooking up
with Weta (effects work on Lord of the Rings, King
Kong) and Peter Jackson is a very very good thing,
and could be the start of a relationship that could
eventually pay Lovecraft dividends with IN THE MOUNTAINS
OF MADNESS (should read: At the Mountains of Madness)
that must must must be made with WETA! So for now,
consider this a confirmed rumor that Guillermo is
at the very least in serious talks, that are very
very close to being finalized. I guess I should
find out what HALO is."
More
as it becomes available...
(Thanks
to http://www.aintitcool.com/)
December
7: Watch Marebito online
The
first 8 minutes from Marebito are available
online through filmforce.ign.com. Tartan releases
the film in theaters this Friday...
Check
it out here.
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
December
4: New Marebito review
Check
out bloody-disgusting's review of Marebito
here.
(Thanks
to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)
December
3: The latest from Guerrilla Productions!
Click here
to read all the latest from Guerrilla Productions
(Flesh of My Flesh, The Statement of Randolph
Carter)!
(Thanks to Edward Martin III)
December 3: BtWoS on Lions Gate DVD?
Negotiations
are currently underway between Lions
Gate Home Entertainment and the creative team
behind Beyond the Wall of Sleep that may
see an official DVD release in the coming year.
According to fangoria.com, the release is already
scheduled for June 2006...
More
details as they become available.
(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/
and Barrett Leigh)
December
3: More Marebito!
Above
you will see the "unrated" Marebito
poster in which the girls ankle is chained. The
un-chained version can be see on the November
news page. The chain was removed at the request
of the MPAA...
The
new trailer for the U.S. release for Marebito
can be found here...
Marebito
opens in limited theaters on December 9th and a
free screening will take place at Cinespace (in
Hollywood). Visit the official
website for further details...
(Thanks
to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/
and Dread
Central)
December
3: Reviews from around the web
Creature-corner.com
reviews the recently released Blind Dead
Collection (including the Lovecraft inspired 4th
film, Night Of The Seagulls) here...
Click
here
to read Dread Central's review of the Book of
the Dead Limited Edition Set DVD...
Dread
Central also reviews
the unrated edition of Alien Vs. Predator,
which contains minor similarities to Lovecraft's
"At the Mountains of Madness"...
(Thanks
to http://www.creature-corner.com/
and Dread
Central)
December
3: Fog DVD announced
The
Fog remake hits shelves on January 24th,
2006 in both a PG-13 and unrated edition. Extras
include deleted scenes, featurettes "Feeling
the Effects of The Fog", "Seeing
Through The Fog", "Whiteout Conditions:
The Remake of a Horror Classic", and
more.
It
can also be purchased in a two-pack with Carpenter's
original (and vastly superior) film...
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
December
3: Evil for the PSP
Anchor
Bay Entertainment will release Evil Dead
II in the UMD format (for Sony PSP) on January
3rd, 2006...
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
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