Image courtesy of Pete Von Sholly

I'm moving across town this weekend, so I'll be offline for a few days, but expect a huge update around the middle of next week!

February 14: Aaron Vanek's latest on YouTube!

Aaron Vanek's latest Lovecraftian effort, The Call of Tutu, can now be found on YouTube and Google Video! Written by Richard Becker and starring Dale Snowberger and Jennifer Knighton, The Call of Tutu is the story of an old man describing his cat. But is it really just a cat?

The film will also screen as part of Sydney, Australia's A Night of Horror!

(Thanks to Jennifer Knighton, Bob Brinkman and Aaron Vanek)

February 14: Dr. West is coming!

SOTA Toys have announced that they will release their Herbert West (Re-Animator) 12-inch statue this year...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

February 14: The Old Ones in name only?

An upcoming film titled The Dark is Rising (based on a series of books by Susan Cooper) focuses on a youth, Will Stanton, who discovers at age 11 that he's the last of a group of immortals "the Old Ones" dedicated to fighting a growing presence of dark forces. He comes to the realization he's been charged with saving the world...

I'm not sure if this is a direct reference to Lovecraft's work or a coincidental one, but I'll do some digging and see what I can find out!

(Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)

February 14: The Golden Army release date announced

Universal Pictures will release Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy 2: The Golden Army on August 1st 2008...

(Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)

February 14: Another Lovecraft actor interviewed

Rachael Robbins who stars as Keja, a 400-year-old witch, in David Hohl's In Search of Lovecraft gets the interview treatment from evildread.com...

(Thanks to David Hohl)

February 10: See The Love Craft on the big screen!

A reminder...

Maelstrom Productions short The Love Craft will screen at MegaCon in Orlando, FL! The convention will take place February 16th – 18th, with screenings on Friday and Saturday...

Guests include Dick Giordano, Voltaire, Lloyd Kaufman, Sean Astin, Jamie Bamber and Mary McDonnell...

(Thanks to Eric Morgret)

February 10: Flesh of my Flesh seeks CG artist!

For Immediate Release:

Flesh of my Flesh is hurtling its way out of post-production and we need a few small CG touches here and there.

We offer screen credit, website credit, links, and we'll forward the credit to IMDB, and of course, a finished copy of the movie. And we're not talking about some dinky ol DVD-R, nope, we're talking about the commercial DVDs, with all the printed matter and all the extra bonus features and everything. Ain't no reason you shouldn't get something that looks great on your shelf!

We've produced two DVDs so far, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and The Cosmic Horror Fun-Pak and this'll be our third (and not our last, either!).

If you're interested, please drop me a note (here) and let me know the kind of stuff you like doing. We have simple things, and complicated things, and one mamma-jamma of a composite shot. Explosions, gunshots, fighter jets, hunks of heart flying through the air, we got it all!

Feel free to pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, or to repost, or whatever.

(Thanks to Edward Martin III)

February 9: Lovecraft gets Unwholesome!

Stoneworks Entertainment (The Cthulhu Chronicles Episode One The Ropes) are currently in pre-production on a feature-length film called Unwholesome. The feature, which is inspired by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, will conclude the Cthulhu Chronicles series of shorts.

Written by Jason Smiley (who is also set to direct) and starring Jayson Argento, the film is scheduled for a 2009 release...

Also in the works from Stoneworks Entertainment is a series of screenplay shorts based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft also meant to be further episodes of Cthulhu Chronicles. The shorts are being written by Mike Turner.

(Thanks to Bob Brinkman and Jason Smiley)

February 9: Investigate the Unbirthen'd!

Unbirthen'd, a film I first learned about during the HPLFF, has been steadily ramping up it's web presence while pre-production on the film continues. The website contains archived news, sample script pages, loads of images (on Photobucket) and more! The production is currently seeking a director and cast before they shoot a twenty minute 'rough edit show reel' for investors.

About the film: While on a camping trip, a group of friends perform a forgotten ritual, half opening a doorway to another plane. Now they must try to survive as they navigate a world that is half there own and half something else. Strange creatures from beyond surround them as they slowly begin to realize that not only has the forest changed, but some of them may be changing as well... and not for the better. As the infection spreads, so does the horrifying truth of what they have done. "Do not with what you not know."

Click here to learn more about Unbirthen'd!

(Thanks to Dr. Nothing)

February 9: Cthulhu images arise! ~ updated ~

According to Dread Central, Cthulhu, a modern-day take on The Shadow Over Innsmouth, is ready for this years festival circuit! The film follows Russell Marsh, a young, successful history professor at Cascadia University in Seattle. Russ had moved away from his hometown of Rivermouth, Oregon as a young teen, escaping the troubles of growing up gay in a small town. Now, years later, he receives a phone call from his only contact with the family, his kid sister: their mother has died. For reasons he cannot understand he has been named executor of her estate and must return to Rivermouth immediately to honor her final wishes. Upon his arrival, things are even more confounding than he expected and just keep getting stranger. Russ again fights his father while trying to reconcile broken ties, as a worldwide environmental and political catastrophe spins out of control to threaten the very survival of mankind. Russ, investigating the cult his father presides over, uncovers a connection between his family and the fate of the world. Struggling against time Russ must choose between accepting his loyalty to those he loves and his seemingly unavoidable destiny in this ancient town

Dread Central also scored a bunch of cool images from the film (like the ones you see above), so click on over and check them out!

update: Cthulhu writer Grant Cogswell passed along the following: "We are about two weeks from a final cut and new trailer. We'll be having a crew-friends-and-family screening in Seattle very soon after that, and submitting the film to festivals and screening for distributors. The new trailer will be up on our website at www.cthulhuthemovie.com."

(Thanks to Dread Central)

February 8: Closet Space teams up with The Unquiet Void!

The new trailer for Mel House's Closet Space is now available and it features music from The Unquiet Void!

Check it out here courtesy of Dread Central!

(Thanks to Mel House)

February 8: Knightgaunt goes full color!

K.L. Young and John Fulton's Knightgaunt comic (which debuted at last years HPLFF) has been picked up by Saturna Inc for publishing! Artwork is being handled by John, who is hard at work on a new issue #1, which will be regular comic-book sized, and in full color!

Look for a revamped website by months end, and a "sneak peek" free issue in April (which will include a couple finished pages from issue #1, lots of sketch and character design art, and interviews with K.L. Young and artist John Fulton conducted by Lovecraft filmmaker Rick Tillman).

(Thanks to K.L. Young)

February 8: Lovecraft actor interviewed

Check out the Racks & Razors interview with In Search of Lovecraft actor Cameron Weston here!

(Thanks to David Hohl)

February 8: Death of Poe review

Click here for M.J. Simpson's review of Mark Redfield's The Death of Poe...

(Thanks to Mark Redfield)

February 7: Cool new Von Sholly images!

Artist/writer/producer/director and Unfilmable.com contributor Pete Von Sholly passed along these cool new images from his Classics Not Illustrated line of paintings! Check out more of Pete's artwork (and pick up a graphic novel or two) over at his official website, Vonshollywood.com!

(Thanks to Pete Von Sholly)

February 7: New Other Gods sightings!

H.P. Lovecraft's The Other Gods has several new screenings on the horizon including one at Rochester's Little Theater (for the Emerging Filmmakers series) and Sydney, Australia's A Night of Horror!

The Rochester screening takes place on Monday, February 26th at 9 pm. The theater is located at 240 East Ave, Rochester, NY. Further information can be found here.

The Night of Horror festival (in Sydney, Australia) takes place in March, with schedule and film information forthcoming. Check out the official Night of Horror site here, or visit their MySpace page here.

The Other Gods also played the Horror Dance film festival in Houston, Texas recently...

(Thanks to Mike Boas)

February 7: Kolchak and the Lovecraftian Horror

Comicmonsters.com reports that Carl Kolchak, the Nightstalker will finally meet H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos head-on after thirty years! The storyline revolves around Kolchak who starts to follow the trail begun by the photographing of a strange sea creature, he suddenly finds himself being drawn into a nightmare world so fantastic, so utterly alien and frighteningly dark that even his massive psychic defenses begin to crumble. For once, Kolchak isn't just following a story; he isn't merely uncovering yet another monster a step or two up from a serial killer. This time he's crossing the threshold into another reality, one which could possibly destroy both his mind, and the entire world!

(Thanks to K.L. Young)

February 7: Latest DVD releases...

Several new DVDs were released this week including the Hellboy's first animated adventure (Hellboy: Sword of Storms) and the first (and so far only) episode of Mike Mignola's The Amazing Screw-On Head. Also appearing on DVD this week is Uli Lommel's modern day retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven...

Check out Dread Central's review of the Hellboy: Sword of Storms DVD here...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

February 7: Hellboy Game updates



News is starting to hit the web on the video game adaptation of Mike Mignola's Hellboy and Dread Central's got it covered!

Check out their reports here and here...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

February 7: Several new Yellow Sign reviews...



Several new reviews have appeared online for Lurker Films The Weird Tale Collection Volume 1 DVD (containing Aaron Vanek's The Yellow Sign) including one on theyrecoming.com and another on Dread Central...

Theyrecoming.com also has reviews of LovecraCked! The Movie and Beyond the Wall of Sleep...

(Thanks to Dread Central and theyrecoming.com)

February 7: Tarantino's Evil Dead?

Fangoria.com reveals that Quentin Tarantino was one of the many directors' approached to helm Sam Raimi's Evil Dead remake...

"It got thrown my way that he was interested in talking to me about it," Tarantino tells fango. "Just for posterity's sake, I had to stop and think about it. It's just so his thing, though. I couldn't see why he wasn't doing it himself. It's like, some things I could look at and say, 'I could do this.' I could look at the first Friday the 13th and say, 'Yeah, I know what to do with this.' Evil Dead, I couldn't do better than that! And my mind doesn't lean toward the evil book stuff anyway, you know what I mean? The Book of the Dead, that's not where my mind goes, but I loved it in The Evil Dead."

It's odd that Tarantino says his mind doesn't lean towards the evil book stuff, because in a letter written to author Charles Mitchell (The Complete H.P. Lovecraft Filmography), he admitted that he was interested in directing a Mythos/HPL based project (at some point)...

(Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/)

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