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Hello everyone, I am posting this quick note to inform you that my computer is down. Do to this fact, there will be no further updates to Unfilmable.com (or my other websites) until the problem is corrected. I will also be unable to send or receive emails for the time being. If you have tried to contact me in the last week or so, please be patient, your information will be added, and you will receive a reply. I apologize for any inconvenience, and look forward to the time when I can again bring you the latest in Lovecraft media news! Thank you for your time! Thought I'd pass this along... Hi, my name is Robert Mattoso, the founder of the first Forest Theater Short Film Festival. I wanted to spread the word and keep filmmakers informed on what's happening with the festival this year. This festival will incorporate a diverse selection of short independent films, and will give independent filmmakers a great opportunity to expose there work to a crowd of fresh eyes. The festival will be taking place in the ideal film festival town of Forest Grove, Oregon, just a few miles west of Portland. With an April 10th, submission deadline coming up, I feel the need to personally hit the web and ask filmmakers to join us for the festivities. The dates set with the theater give us ample time to feature over 100 short films, however we are willing to extend that time to feature more if necessary. Once again, this is a great opportunity for any filmmaker to gain exposure to his or her work. I am personally asking everyone to submit your short or shorts and brace yourselves for a opportunity of a lifetime. Think about it, and if you have questions feel free to e-mail us at forestfilmfest@yahoo.com or check our web site at http://www.forestfilmfestival.com/ I appreciate your time. I look forward to previewing each and every film and can guarantee you, if you think your film deserves it, so do we. (Thanks to Robert Mattoso) February 24: Lovecraft inspired CD released John W. Patterson, is a sci-fi/fantasy/horror writer deeply influenced by H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith. His works appear online in such places as Berglund's Nightscapes, Shoggoth.net and The Eldritch Dark.com. He has just finished and have released a CD, Codex Hypnos, full of dark ambient, fantastic horrorscapes, and soundtrack-type, electronic voids. Nyarlahotep is featured on the CD art (John's own work) and it runs 78 minutes... John writes, "Though the songs are named in the sc-fi / fantasy mode -- I have come to realize that I could have very easily named each piece as being related to the Cthulhu Mythos. The work is getting great press so far and I just wanted to let fans of fantastic horror that there is a perfect soundworld available now to read, write, dream, or scream along with." More info and noisome sounds here: http://eer-music.com/SourceCodeX/index.html (Thanks to John W. Patterson
aka SourceCodeX) Jay Woelfel's Lovecraft inspired film, Beyond Dream's Door will get the full blown DVD treatment soon. According to Jay, the film will be a new "directors cut" with lots of extras. Release date has not been announced. There is an interview with Jay in the current Cult Cuts Magazine. (Thanks to Jay Woelfel) According to Ain't It Cool News, John Carpenter has admitted that he is not working on a sequel to his masterpiece, The Thing. This seems to be a rumor that will not die... Click here for the full article. (Thanks to http://aintitcoolnews.com/) CountingDown.com had an opportunity to sit down with Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro. During the course of the interview he updated the status of several of the films he has in development, including "At the Mountains of Madness". CD: The internet has you attached to about 20 different movies on any different day - which ones are currently moving ahead, and have any dropped off the radar completely? Which seems like the project you'll move to after 'Hellboy'? GDT: I tried to clarify that a little bit in one [message board] posting. A rundown: The Creature from the Black Lagoon, I'm not involved. I have never officially been involved, I will not be involved. The Wind in the Willows is gone. We're still turning in Mountains of Madness to the studio this month, we'll see what happens with that. I'm trying to raise financing for Monte Cristo. I've put away Crimson Peak, because I feel I have so many other pending ones, that I'd rather start getting them out. Mephisto's Bridge, unfortunately, is not showing any signs of being able to be financed. I want to do a Spanish movie that is the counterpart to Devil's Backbone, it is again in Spain during the fascist years and it's called Pan's Labyrinth. And, you know, part of me really feels like going to Spain and doing that, because it's almost like a vacation to be able to do another quirky smaller totally art house oriented little fairy tale, y'know? But, if any of the big ones, be it Mountains of Madness or Monte Cristo, would happen, I would love it. We're still developing Domu, we just got the rights. We're gonna have 30 days of a window to be able to find someone to partner with. I continue to produce, Alfonso Cuaron and I are finishing producing a movie in Ecuador. I may try my hand at producing a couple of horror things in the states. And I dunno, I mean it's very active, but I found out the hard way that whatever your plans are have very little to do with the way your career really goes. CD: Heh, yeah. So in an ideal world, would you want to follow Hellboy up with Mountains of Madness? GDT: In an ideal world, if it was a Hollywood project, I would like to do Mountains. In an ideal world, if it was a non Hollywood project, I would do Pan's Labyrinth. Click here for the entire interview. (Thanks to http://www.countingdown.com/) Brian Brethauer and Darkwater Filmworks have just announced their next project, Out of Oblivion. This is the follow-up to their previous Lovecraft adaptation, "What the Moon Brings". Based on Ex Oblivione, Out of Oblivion follows an old mans journey into the world of dreams. Will he learn the secret that will allow him to pass from this life into the dream-world, forever... According to director/writer Brian Brethauer, the short film is currently in production and will start shooting in March. Once finished, the film will be released on DVD with "What the Moon Brings". Darkwater Filmworks previously announced adaptation of "The Lurking Fear" is still in the works, possibly as a feature. Unfortunately, their version of "The Unnamable" has been cancelled due to funding... You can find the Darkwater Filmworks website here. More information is forthcoming. (Thanks to Brian Brethauer) February 18: The Old Ones Interesting link of the week! The following website is for the Lovecraft inspired band, The Old Ones. The name of their 2003 release was Al Azif. The Old Ones reside here! (Thanks to Robert Grgurinovic) Contributing Sources: creature-corner.com As I reported some time ago, John Carpenter has expressed interest in doing a sequel to "The Thing". A scooper for countingdown.com came across a Carpenter interview SFX Magazine which stated that he has a script "ready" should Universal want to do Thing 2. According to the article, firm video game sales from The Thing game have spurred interest from the studio. (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets will be playing at Vancouver, BC's Railway Club on Friday March 19 with G.G. Dartray. Click here for more. (Thanks to Toren Atkinson) Just a reminder... Shawn the Touched wish's you a Happy Valentine's Day, and H.P. Lovecraft, too! Check it out here! (Thanks to Shawn the
Touched) I've just added a new
review for Edward Martin's animated "The Dream-Quest of Unknown
Kadath". The review is courtesy of Gavin Smith who runs Gavinicuss
Books (books by Lovecraft and related authors, as well as, special order
books). Gavinicuss Books can be found here. February 13: Greek Shunned
House DVD release Here is the final cover for the Greek DVD release of "The Shunned House". You can find further information here. Salvation's official website can be found here. (Thanks to Ivan Zuccon) February 13: "Enter the Dagon" now on scarycamp.com Thomas Gleason's "Enter the Dagon" is now listed on the Scary Camp website. From scarycamp.com: ~"ENTER THE DAGON": Ever wonder what it would be like if the H.P. Lovecraft mythos met the martial arts film genre? Neither had we, but apparently Tom Gleason and the folks at Spinning Grave Productions did, and the result is an insanely unique foray into weirdness. Tom has duly warned us that “the troops are assembling to invade Scary Camp” for the WORLD PREMIERE of what I like to think of as The Necronomicon With Nunchuks-- and what the producers refer to as Kung Fthulu!~ I'll post screening times as soon as it's available. Check out the official trailer here! (Thanks to Thomas Gleason) February 13: Campus Crusade for Cthulhu Interesting link of the week! The following website is for a group of Lovecraft fans at MIT. You can find MIT's Campus Crusade for Cthulhu here. (Thanks to Jonathan Monsarrat) February 13: "The Halfway House" second screening According to Lynda Williams, a second screening of The Halfway House has been scheduled after Indiefest closes. When: February 17th, 9:00 p.m. Where: The Roxie Theater Contact the Indiefest at info@sfindie.com for more info. (Thanks to Lynda Williams) According to BV Entertainment, Inc., tickets for the San Francisco Indiefest screening of "The Halfway House" are going fast! They are in the top ten of their best-selling events! What this means is that if you are planning to attend you will need to purchase your tickets online, before you go up, as there is a good chance this movie will sell out prior to the screening. Tickets are available online up to 11:00 PM the day before the screening. To purchase your tickets online, go here. The interface is very easy to use. The full schedule can be found here and details about "The Halfway House" are here. As always, we'll continue to keep you posted as information about other festivals and screenings develop! The Production Staff (Thanks to BV Entertainment,
Inc.) Source: fangoria.com Anyone who has seen Brad Anderson's chilling psychological horror film SESSION 9 knows that a good deal of the film's creeps come from its location, the disused Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts-in fact, the director was inspired to make the movie by this unique location. Now it is scheduled for demolition, and Fango reader Michael Carey has started on on-line petition to save the building, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Click here to add your name to the list, which has already been signed by over 2,000 people. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) February 9: Is the Madness still on? According to a scooper for Ain't It Cool News, Guillermo del Toro talked about "At the Mountains of Madness" at the LA Comic Convention. He again referred to it as his 'dream project'. Let's hope his dream becomes a reality... (Thanks to http://aintitcoolnews.com/) February 9: The Resurrected DVD update Michael Allred has asked that I remind you of the following: Hello again, this is
the fella running the "Resurrected" DVD campaign. I
have an update [for you] regarding the project. Michael Allred The Lovecraftian horror film, Dahmer's Daughter (I've read the script, and it's great.) is currently underway. Scenes have already been shot with Debbie Rochon (Cremains, Dead Clowns), and Jeffrey Arsenault and Bruce G. Hallenbeck (London after Midnight) have joined the cast. The film was written by Kevin J. Lindenmuth and Bruce G. Hallenbeck. Kevin Lindenmuth is directing... More as it becomes available. (Thanks to Kevin J. Lindenmuth and Bruce G. Hallenbeck) February 6: This Movie Ain't Gonna Shoot Itself Found the following article in a creature-corner.com news update for a film called "Hide and Creep", and thought it was worth sharing with everyone... This is recommended reading for anyone thinking of making your own Lovecraft film (or film in general). You can find the article here, courtesy of moviepoopshoot.com. (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) I just bought and read the new Lovecraft comic from Vertigo and it is outstanding! There's a great introduction by John Carpenter in which he praises Lovecraft quite highly and acknowledges his debt to the Old Gent. But the comic itself is simply amazing. The story weaves together Lovecraft's life with characters and concepts from the Mythos. While this isn't particularly original (August Derleth himself probably started the trend), this version is surprisingly moving. Great little details like Lovecraft's belief as a child that he was a girl, and later his role-playing as Abdul Alhazred are wonderfully incorporated. The madness of both his parents, the death of his grandfather, and his growing hatred of New York are all given Mythos spins that could have been heavy handed or demeaning, but writers Keith Griffen and Hans Rodionoff make them subtle and unnerving. The art is breathtaking. I was actually disturbed by some of the panels in a "Jacob's Ladder" sort of way. Enrique Breccia's drawings of Shoggoths, Brown Jenkin, the Lovecraft family etc. are twisted and wonderful. His use of color wonderfully conveys the shifts between realities. This is yet another of the high quality Lovecraftian comics published in the last few years. After decades of maltreatment (much like in the movies) Lovecraftian comics are truly having a rebirth of creativity and fidelity. Buy it, borrow it, see for yourself: this one's a keeper. Click here for more! (Thanks to Christian
Matzke) Ivan Zuccon's "Unknown Beyond" has just been released on DVD in the UK, courtesy of Xploited Cinema. Features on the Region 0 (PAL format) DVD include original trailer, stills gallery, essays on H.P. Lovecraft and Italian horror films, Cadaveria 'Spells' music video and the short film - Catharsis directed by Owen Tooth. The DVD sells for $24.95. Click here for more. (Thanks to Ivan Zuccon) According to Christopher K. Philippo, in one of the stories in "The Offspring" (a 1987 anthology horror movie), there's something called "Lovecraft's Traveling Amusements." Then in the wraparound segment, there's the following exchange, after another one of the segments concludes: Bess Chandler (portrayed by Susan Tyrrell): "That's quite an origin. Like something out of Lovecraft or Poe." Julian White (portrayed by Vincent Price): "Lovecraft and Poe, haha! I'll drink to those two masters of horror!" Price, of course, starred in the Lovecraft adaptation "The Haunted Palace" (1963), and one of The Offspring's writers, C. Courtney Joyner, was director of the Lovecraft adaptation "Lurking Fear" (1994). (Thanks to Christopher K. Philippo) February 4: Enter the Necronomicontest! Would you like to win a beautifully bound, hand-made, insanely complete and terrifyingly authentic 17th-century style Necronomicon? The insane propmakers at the HP Lovecraft Historical Society are working on just such a book, and they want your help! Enter the HPLHS Necronomicontest and contribute your own chapter, spell, and/or artwork to this dreaded tome, and help us create an amazing volume that would make even Abdul Al Hazred nervous. Write yourself into occult history and bag cool prizes! Sordid details, submission
guidelines and much more at: http://www.cthulhulives.org (Thanks to Sean Branney) Richard Blackburn's Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1972), which is partially based on Lovecraft's tale "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", will make an appearance on the big screen Friday, February 20th. Director Richard Blackburn will attend a Q&A following the film. The screening (which takes place at 7:30) is part of the UCLA Film and Television Archive film retrospective, Going to Hell: Horror from the 1970's and '80s. The retrospective will take place at the college beginning Friday, February 13th and concluding on Wednesday, February 25th. The films will screen at the James Bridges Theater in Melnitz Hall, located on the northeast corner of the UCLA campus, near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Hilgard Avenue. Tickets are available at the theater one hour before showtime. Admission is $7 general; $5 students, seniors and UCLA Alumni Association members with ID. Click here for a complete schedule. (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) According to Christopher K. Philippo, the Necronomicon makes an appearance in the original script to 1939's "Son of Frankenstein". Below is an excerpt to the original script by Willis Cooper. 18 at the bookcase. He fingers the books on the shelves. WOLF He is jubilant at having proved to himself that he remembers such details after all these years. He puts the Avicenna back, takes out the next book, which is a musty, tattered leather-bound book of the journal type. The script appears in it's entirety here. (Thanks to Christopher
K. Philippo) Microcinema
Fest, The Festival for Truly Independent Moviemakers, is now looking
for submissions. The festival (now in its forth year) is a cooperative
effort between three Microcinema news and review sites (rewindvideo.com,
b-independent.com,
and microcinemascene.com),
several independent film and video production companies and the State
Film Commission of South Dakota. The event has been held in Rapid City,
South Dakota since 2001. Combining low festival submission fees, deals on accommodations, networking forums and three nights of screenings in two theaters, Microcinema Fest is a nearly weeklong event hosted by people who make movies for people who make movies. It's a party with a purpose - a celebration of the art of moviemaking with little-to-no money. The festival will take place July 5 - 11, 2004, and the submission deadline is Friday, May 14, 2004. Click here for more. (Thanks to http://www.b-independent.com/) February 2: The Cinema Edge Awards Wicked Pixel Cinema's The Cinema Edge Awards celebrate artistic / genre / non-mainstream cinema produced at the indie, micro-budget level... Have you made a short or a feature for any budget amount from $250,000 down to $25? If so, send it in! Projects could win in one of 5 categories, with all winning projects receiving a certificate of award and a nifty prize package. The feature length movie winning the grand prize gets international DVD distribution through Sub Rosa Studios! Categories include: Cinema Edge Grand Prize (overall best director/movie), Best Actor (male or female, lead or supporting), Best Visual Presentation – Cinematography / Production Design / Editing, Best Music Score and Most Inventive Story / Concept All entries must be received
by July 31st, 2004, and winners will be declared sometime before the
end of October, 2004. (Thanks to http://www.b-independent.com/) |
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