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February
2005
February 24, 2005 Portland Oregon's Guerrilla Productions announces that Principal Photography is complete for their next feature film, an action/horror movie entitled "Flesh of my Flesh". Filmmaker Edward Martin
III ("Innsmouth Legacy", "The Dream-Quest of
Unknown Kadath") reports "What a ride! This has been
just one amazing shoot. We had setbacks and miracles and all sorts of
craziness. We shot through an ice storm, teenage invasions, police interventions,
and bitterly cold weather. Our cast and crew stepped up to the plate
and hit a freakin' home run. The footage we have looks like a million
bucks!" The actual Production budget for "Flesh of
my Flesh" was, in fact, $10,000. The final scenes were filmed in Dammasch State Hospital, a disused mental institution south of Portland. "Our location was awesome. We had a completely constructed laboratory, with walls and ceiling and floor and we could shoot in any direction. Our locations, our props, our set dressing, and our hordes and hordes of rampaging flesh-eaters, everything has come together to make the perfect last scene for this movie," he added. Some second-unit shooting is still scheduled and post-production has already started. Guerrilla Productions,
fueled almost entirely by caffeine, released their first feature, "The
Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" in October 2003 (and has already
sold out of its first pressing) and has released a second DVD, called
The Cosmic Horror Fun-Pak (http://www.petting-zoo.org/OrderForm.html),
which includes a collection of short movies, as well as the first teaser-trailer
for "Flesh of my Flesh". "Flesh of my Flesh" chronicles the last eight hours of the War of the Undead, from the point of view of the people trapped in the middle, and stars Heather Rose Walters, Matthew Martin, Ron Richardson, Rex Irae, and many other local Portland actors. For more information, please contact Edward Martin III Please visit the official
"Flesh of my Flesh" website at http://www.FleshOfMyFlesh.com! images © Gil Luna
2005 (Thanks to Edward Martin
III)
Looks like the stars are finally coming into alignment... finally after many years Out of Mind is coming to DVD. The DVD will contain commentary by actor Christopher Heyerdahl and Director Raymond Saint-Jean. This disc will also contain John Strysik's The Music of Erich Zann (with the new 5.1 Dolby Surround sound) and Aaron Vanek's The Outsider and My Necronomicon. S.T. Joshi will also be interviewed for his always interesting and factual backgrounders on the stories these films are based on. We are also glad to announce that there will be several trailers for upcoming films including HPLHS's The Call of Cthulhu, Sascha Renninger's The Unnamable, and possibly the trailer for the soon to be released Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Check http://www.lurkerfilms.com for updates in the next couple of weeks. (Thanks to Andrew Migliore) The film will be released on SE DVD by Sony Pictures March 15. The story is as follows: When a group of criminals on the run after a bank robbery take refuge in an abandoned house, they have no idea what evil they have come upon. Isolated and presumed deserted, the house is anything but safe...As the night wears on and a thunderstorm grows outside, each member of the group begins to have visions of the atrocities that occurred within the house, haunting it forever. Voices in the well, visions of mangled bodies and clawing under the stairs plague their waking hours. As the fear in the group begins to grow and the supernatural forces in the house start to manifest themselves, the group turn on each other and exact the wrath of the soul trapped within the walls. You can read an interview here, in which the director also mentions the films Lovecraft influence. You can also read a review of the film here, courtesy of Dread Central... (Thanks to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/,
http://www.sagindie.com/
and Fangoria) Andrew Migliore and Lurker Films will be attending and presenting at the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors in the Burbank Hilton, Burbank California on June 5 & 6, 2005. For further details, click here. (Thanks to http://www.lurkerfilms.com/) February 27: From Beyond DVD pushed back... Bloody-disgusting.com reports that MGM may be pushing the release date for the From Beyond SE DVD back to 2006. This is so they can catch up "cast and crew as well as give a respectable presentation for fans eager to see the newly found footage". MGM is apparently also working on a DVD release for Stuart's 1987 film Dolls. (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) February 27: The Mist
update According to Dread Central, Frank Darrabont recently gave the moderator of King's official message boards some news about the status of The Mist... "Tell all enquiring minds that I'm mere weeks out from finishing. Tell them also that the death of Norm the bag boy is the most appalling and outrageous screen death ever...bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" (Thanks to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/) Actress Sandra Dee who
starred in The Dunwich Horror passed away at the age of 63 (though
a number of movie Web sites put her birth date variously at April 23,
1942, and April 23, 1944, which would have made her 62 or 60). CNN reports
that she died (February 20th) at the "Los Robles Hospital &
Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California, where she had been treated
for 14 days for complications from kidney disease and pneumonia". (Thanks to http://www.cnn.com/ and Bob Brinkman) February 27: Alone in the Dark, what could have been... Bob Brinkman passed along this link to an interview with the original screenwriters for the film Alone in the Dark. It seems they had hoped to keep the Lovecraftian feel that was absent from the finished film. Check it out here. (Thanks to Bob Brinkman) Some additional info regarding submission for the anthology: Our submission deadline isn't until June 30th, 2005 so if you're considering making a short film or animation specifically to submit for this anthology, I encourage you to do so, but please try to have your short film or animation completed and in the mail by our June 30th deadline, otherwise I unfortunately cannot guarantee that you will be considered for this project. Got a special circumstance or just some questions or comments? Feel free to write me at elias@biffjuggernaut.com and let me know what's on your mind:) I look forward to seeing
some great Lovecraftian flicks:) (Thanks to Elias)
(Photo © SOTA) SOTA Toys used the New York City Toy Fair to spread the word about many of it's upcoming releases including, a boxed diorama from John Carpenter's The Thing (recreating the classic Dog Kennel confrontation), Kurt Russell (The Thing) as R.J. MacReady, and the Nightmares of Lovecraft. The first three figures in the Nightmares of Lovecraft line include Cthulhu from "The Call of Cthulhu", the Ghoul from "Pickman's Model" and Dagon from "Shadow Over Insmouth". President Jerry Macaluso from SOTA Toys said in a statement, "I wanted this line to be about taking the classic Lovecraft stories and combining them with an original take by our artists," he went on to say, "I want these to be beautiful and terrifying all at once." Each figure will range in size and
come with multiple points of articulation and ball-joints. Release
date is late 2005. February 27: The Fog's first victims... Columbia/Revolution Studios have signed on the first actors for their remake of The Fog. The film, to be directed by Rupert Wainwright from a Cooper Layne script and produced by the original's John Carpenter and Debra Hill along with David Foster, has cast Tom Welling (the young Superman of the WB's Smallville) as a local boat owner, and Maggie Grace (Shannon on ABC's LOST) as the heroine (a local girl just returned home from college). No word on the rumor about Chris Isaak playing a small part... Dread Central also reports that CG effects company Hydraulx has been awarded the computer visual effects job on the film. Shooting begins soon for October 14 release. (Thanks to http://www.gorezone.net,
http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/
and Frank Hummel) Check out Fantasia’s official site for submission information and to download the form you’ll need to enter your movie. Fantasia runs from July 7th to July 24th in Montreal... (Thanks to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/) February 27: More from the Evil Dead camp... Bloody-disgusting.com recently interviewed Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, and the subject of all things Evil Dead came up. Topics include The Evil Dead remake, Evil Dead 4 and Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash... Click here for more. (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) February 27: Cool Session 9 location pics The Horror Channel's latest Horrors Hallowed Grounds is loaded with location pics from Brad Anderson's film Session 9. Filming took place at the incredibly cool Danvers State Mental Hospital in Massachusetts... Check them out here! (Thanks to http://www.horrorchannel.com/) Judges for the competition include Stan Winston; director Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Mortuary); Jeff Katz creative executive at New Line Cinema; development executive Michael Grady; Alex Franklin, Director of Development of Lions Gate Films and David Kopple, motion picture literary agent for the Gersh Agency. Film entries are being accepted in the categories of Best Feature, Directing, Cinematography, Editing, Special Effects and Musical Score to name a few. In addition, there are special categories for Best Animation, Best Short, Best Documentary and Best Student Film. The normal deadline for film submissions is July 15, with a late deadline of August 15. Screamfest accepts film completed after January 1, 2001. The deadline for screenplay submissions is June 15, with a late deadline of July 15. For more information or to download a submission form visit: http://www.screamfestla.com (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) An avatar of Hephaistos, god of fire and enemy of Athena, signs a pact with Nyarlathotep to use the armor of the Great Old Ones, the most powerful armor in the universe. Hephaistos doesn't know that Nyarlathotep is a liar and manipulator, and that his soul will be lost. The first episode will consist of the four hero saints, using old armor (Pegasus, Dragon, Andromeda and Cygnus), fighting against Hephaistos's troops and the Great Old One saints... Click here for more. (Thanks to Bob Brinkman and Thibaut Brix) February 6: Dead of Winter
article... Check it out here. (Thanks to Bruce and
Rosa Hallenbeck) The auction page contains excerpts from the script, and can be found here. (Thanks to Aaron Vanek) February 6: No Ash for Evil Dead remake... Source: Coming Soon, LatinoReview According to gorezone.net, Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert have confirmed that the Evil Dead remake is almost certainly not going to be a PG-13. There will also not be a character named Ash, at Bruce Campbell's request. Sam went on to say (in a Coming Soon interview), "Rob and I would try to get a young director with brand new ideas with his own cast and his own take on the thing" says Raimi who confirms that as of right now they're "waiting to find the right director for the project, that thinks he can really bring something new... the goal of this director should be to terrify the audience in a very intense, and merciless way". If they don't find someone, they would "put it on hold. I don't think we'd abandon it, but we won't make it unless we have a really good script and a really great director, somebody we feel is just right for it". As for Evil Dead 4, Raimi told LatinoReview, "I think the fans are really smart. I don't think they'd be confused (if the two films came out close to each other). I'd like to make a part four. There's this very small audience for EVIL DEAD 4, and if we ever make a movie called ED4, which I'd like to make with Rob at some point and starring Bruce Campbell, I'm not saying there's a million people, but there's 100,000 people that will know exactly what it is and that's about as big as the crowd is, honestly. It's not a giant crowd. They're a great crowd". They gone on to mention that Rob Tapert realized that the sequel might have to be Army of Darkness II, since Universal produced the most recent sequel. (Thanks to http://www.gorezone.net) Fangoria.com scored one of the first ever images from Tobe Hooper's upcoming film, Mortuary. Check it out here! (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) February 4: Pete Von Sholly is Morbid! Artist and Unfilmable.com contributor Pete Von Sholly (click here) has an upcoming collection of 'wild horror and sci-fi stories told in a series of photos and rendered art' (including a story that takes place in Dunwich) called Morbid 2. The 96-page full-color book will debut March 30 from Dark Horse Comics, and retails for $14.95. Click here for more, or click here to visit Vonshollywood! (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) February 4: To much Evil Dead... There seems to be an endless supply of news articles circulating the web about the various Evil Dead projects in the works. From another edition of Evil Dead on DVD (gorezone.net reports that it will be released sometime in 2006) to Sam Raimi tackling Evil Dead 4, here's a round-up of the never ending Evil Dead parade... ~ Click here to check out what the future holds for Evil Dead fx man Tim Sullivan, including the Books of the Dead: Devilhead comic and more. ~ Sam Raimi talks Evil Dead 4 (yes, Bruce Campbell will return!) and the Evil Dead remake here and here. ~ Dante Tomaselli's (Satan's Playground) outline for what his Evil Dead remake would be like can be found here. (Thanks to http://www.gorezone.net, http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/, http://www.creature-corner.com/ and http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) February 4: Cthulhu: Dark Corners update Dread Central reports that Take Two Interactive sub-brand 2K Games has announced it will be co-publishing Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. The game is supposedly due out on April 18th for the PC and sometime early this year for the Xbox. As usual, the official website can be found here. (Thanks to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/) Source: Arkham N.W. Productions Here's an odd item: father of the Seattle Monorail Grant Cogswell has teamed up with Portland Director Daniel Gildark to make a feature adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth', to be filmed in Seattle and Astoria, OR this summer. Co-screenwriter Cogswell says 'Cthulhu' is a "Gothic, apocalyptic, anti-Bush, gay horror film unlike anything you've ever seen". The script, which has been well-received around the Seattle film community, is, says Gildark, "a cross between 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Dawn of the Dead', and 'My Own Private Idaho', with edgy local music and gloomy Northwest locations." For further info, or
to help: (Thanks to Daniel Gildark) According to bloody-disgusting.com, director Dante Tomaselli has expressed interest in directing the upcoming remake of the Evil Dead. Dante told Movieonline (in a recent interview); "Needless to say, I'd love to direct an Evil Dead project. I've been wanting to make an all-out zombie splatter film for a long time. Something hard-core and gory as hell. I like that Tapert wants to produce a film that is an "assault." I have a track record...3 features now -- and I can certainly work on low budgets. Hell, I even have Ellen (Cheryl from the original) Sandweiss in my new film, Satan's Playground. She had so many interesting stories to tell about the making of the original. I'm planning on shooting The Ocean next, but I'd drop everything if this opportunity presented itself. I'm a die-hard Evil
Dead fan; I saw the cult classic in 1981 in theaters when I was
11." (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) The Dunwich Herald recently interviewed Cthulhu One organizer Darrick Dishaw. Topics covered include Cthulhu One and the Empire of Satanis RPG. Check it out here (under 'mythos in madison'). (Thanks to Darrick Dishaw) Check it out here. |
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