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announced projects, films currently in production,
VHS/DVD street dates and the occasional video game
and collectible...
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February
28: Pickman's Model DVD now available!
~ updated ~
The DVD for Gary Fierro's
Pickman's
Model now for sale on CreateSpace,
and will be available on amazon.com shortly...
The DVD retails for $12.00.
update: Pickman's
Model is now available on amazon.com!
(Thanks to Conor Timmis)
February 28: Closet Space at Fear Fest
2!
Closet Space will screen at Fear Fest
2 on Sunday, March 9th at the Alamo Draft House
in
Texas. Director
Mel House will hold a introductory/preview panel
on Saturday, March 8 at 12:45 pm, and the screening
is scheduled for noon on Sunday...
According
to Dread Central, Larry Fessenden's The Last
Winter will be available on DVD exclusively
through Blockbuster on May 20th, with a wider
release scheduled for July 29th.
About
the film: The
Last Winter, starring Ron Perlman,
revolves around a team in the Arctic looking
to bring in a crew to construct an oil-drilling
facility but face numerous problems when they
realize the permafrost has begun to melt and
something ancient lies in wait beneath...
Doug
Sakmann and Joanna Angel's award winning instant
classic, Re-Penetrator, is being
re-released on the DVD, The Sick &
Twisted Horror of Joanna Angel. The film
will be paired with Doug and Joanna's follow-up
film, Xxxorcist. Both films are censored
versions of the original releases...
Brian Clemente's Dark Paradox will
screen tomorrow at the Roxy
Theatre in Victoria, British Columbia.
Showtime is at 5 pm, and admission is $8.00...
(Thanks
to Brian Clemente)
February
23: The Book finds a home
H.P.
Lovecraft's The Book has a new home
on the web. The website
contains a fleshed out cast and crew listing
not available on the film's MySpace page...
(James
Raynor)
February
23: Ben Chapman passes away
Ben
Chapman, the actor who played the gillman
in The Creature From the Black Lagoon,
passed away on February 21st...
The H.P. Lovecraft Collection Volume 5:
Strange Aeons is now available!
This collection includes the featured film
Strange Aeons directed by Eric Morgret
(with English subtitles, commentary, a bonus
"making of" featurette and slideshow),
Patrick Weber's short film Maria's
Hubris and the animated shorts From
Beyond by Michael Granberry and Don't
Feed the Book by Robin Ator. The disc
is also packed with special features including
an interview with director John Carpenter,
bumpers from the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival,
trailers and much more!
The Collector's Edition
DVD of The Frolic is now on sale!
The
DVD is limited to 1000 copies and can be
purchased for $35.00 through filmbaby.com
(more retail outlets will be announced soon)...
(Thanks
to Jacob Cooney)
February 21: German Closet Space
release
Closet Space,
Mel House's Lovecraftian feature, will be
released in Germany on April 4th...
February 19: Pickman's Muse
trailer online! ~
updated ~
The
trailer for Robert Cappelletto's highly
anticipated film, Pickman's Muse,
is now online! You can find it by visiting
Robert's MySpace
page...
Robert and writer/director David Schmidt
(House of Black Wings) will have
a table at this weekend's Fangoria's Weekend
of Horrors in Chicago, so be sure to
stop by and say hi!
update: David
Schmidt will premiere the House of Black
Wings trailer at Chicago's Fangoria
Weekend of Horrors (Feb. 22, 23, & 24th)!
(Thanks to Robert Cappelletto and David
Schmidt)
February 19: More
pages from The Book!
Here
are just a few of the 65 film stills that
have been added to the official MySpace
page for James Raynor's The Book...
(Thanks to James Raynor)
February 16: H.P.
Lovecraft's The Book wraps!
James Raynor's latest
foray into Lovecraft territory, The Book,
has wrapped! The screenplay is based on
H.P. Lovecraft's The Book and The
Descendent, both of which were left
incomplete by the authors death in 1937.
The stories were adapted into a single plot
by Richard Ellis...
Visit
the film's official MySpace
page for crew info, a teaser trailer and
more than one hundred pre-production and
behind-the-scenes images (a few of which
are seen below)!
(Thanks
to James Raynor)
February
16: Tom Sullivan reviews The Halfway
House!
Tom Sullivan takes
us on another journey into the Infinite
Abyss! Tom's latest review is for Kenneth
J. Hall's The
Halfway House...
You can read all of Tom's Reviews of
the Infinite Abysshere!
(Thanks to Tom Sullivan)
February 16: Behind
the Crimson Robe!
Here's another great
behind-the-scenes look from a recent Lovecraft
inspired short film! This time from writer/director
Russell Welch's amazing film, The Crimson
Robe (inspired by Dagon and The
Shadow Over Innsmouth)...
You can find more behind-the-scenes images,
production stills and the film itself here!
(Thanks
to Russell Welch)
February 16: Lovecraft films needed, last
call for entries
The
RIOFAN - Rio de Janeiro Fantastic Film Festival
2008 has extended its deadline for submissions.
This is the last call for entries, one week
to go!
If
you’re interested in submitting your
film, you must print and fill an entry form
(which is available for download on our
website: www.riofan.com.br),
and send it with a DVD (screener) until
February 22.
Feature
films will be considered for our international
competition, while short films can be selected
for one of our informative sections. There
is no entry fee.
RioFan
will run from April 29 - May 11, 2008 and
will showcase the best in horror, sci-fi
and genre cinema. The festival will pay
a tribute to legendary Brazilian master
José Mojica Marins, who will receive
the festival’s very first special award
for career achievement, and it will also
have an informative section dedicated to
films inspired by the work of H. P. Lovecraft.
The latest installment
of Tom Sullivan's Reviews of the Infinite
Abyss is now online! Tom's
second review for Unfilmable.com
is for Craig Macneil's Late Bloomer,
written and narrated by Clay Mcleod Chapman.
Check it out here,
and look for more of Tom's reviews in the
coming weeks!
(Thanks
to Tom Sullivan)
February 13: More behind-the-scenes from
The Book!
Filming has begun
on James Raynor's The Book, and the
first batch of behind-the-scenes photos
are online! Check out these, then visit
the film's MySpace
page for more!
(Thanks
to James Raynor)
February 13: The many shades of Cthulhu
SOTA
Toys have
revealed the first two Cthulhu variants
from their upcoming "Ultra Cthulhu
Statue" (see:
February 6th) release! The red Cthulhu is
a Sideshow exclusive...
Pre-production photos
from H.P. Lovecraft's The Book, directed
by James Raynor, have appeared on the films
MySpace page! Production begins on Monday,
February 11th, so look for many more updates
in the coming weeks...
For
now you can check out these pics, or visit
The Book on MySpace
for more!
(Thanks
to James Raynor)
February 10: Black & white Mist!
The
cover art for the two-disc Collector's Edition
of The Mist was released recently
along with the news that it will contain
a special black & white version of the
film! Writer/director Frank Darabont tells
aintitcool.com that this is his preferred
version of the film...
The
2-disc set retails for $32.95 and the single-disc
will sell for $29.95. Look for both on March
25th...
The
DVD for Gary Fierro's Pickman's
Model short is ready and will be available
on Amazon.com in the next couple weeks! Special
features include a commentary with Conor Timmis
(who provided Unfilmable.com
with the DVD artwork you see above), Justin
Tacchi and director Gary Fierro, an interactive
version of H.P. Lovecraft's Pickman's Model,
a documentary, the "Creating a Villain
with Norman Bryn" featurette, the film's
trailer and a photo slideshow...
Details
are forthcoming!
(Thanks
to Conor Timmis)
February 7: Malefique on DVD
Eric
Valette's Lovecraftian chiller Malefique
will be released on DVD through Deimos
Entertainment on April 15th. The film
tells the story of four prisoners who discover
a book of spells in their cell and ill-advisedly
use it to try to escape...
February 6: The Casting
Call of Cthulhu! ~
updated ~
Writer/director
Joseph Nanni sends word that his short (comedy)
film Casting Call of Cthulhu is currently
in post-production and that the film should
be ready for release in early March! The
Bad Advice for Good Times production centers
on a casting session for a Lovecraft film
adaptation in which several minor monstrosities
turn out before an actual Old One shows
up. The film was co-written by Matthew Fraracci,
and The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
have provided one of their songs (Some
Things Man Was Not Meant to Know) for
the films finale...
update:
Added the official film poster courtesy
of Joseph Nanni.
(Thanks to Joseph Nanni)
February 6: Lovecraft's latest nightmare!
SOTA Toys has added
another vision of Cthulhu to their Nightmares
of Lovecraft line! Previous figures
included Cthulhu, Dagon and the Ghoul from
Pickman's Model (all sold out)...
While the original Nightmares of Lovecraft
figures sold for $19.99, the new "Ultra
Cthulhu Statue" will cost $249.99.
The limited edition, individually numbered
resin statues will be available this summer
(in June or July), and Sideshow Collectibles
will carry its own variant of the figure...
Check it out here,
courtesy of Zombie Death House...
(Thanks to Tom Gleason)
February 2: Q & A with Edward Martin
III
Writer/director Edward
Martin III (Innsmouth Legacy, The
Statement of Randolph Carter, The
Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath)
talks zombies and Flesh of my Flesh
with the Portland Tribune...
Crawling Chaos Pictures and Page Street
Studios is proud to honor the 80th anniversary
of the government raid on Innsmouth this
month with the first ever documentary to
examine this watershed event.
Tragedy at Innsmouth (currently in
production) explores the aftermath of the
raid up to the present day. Using both archival
and reenactment footage and interviews with
third generation survivors of the internment
camps, we hope to shed new light on this
dark chapter of our nation's history.
After 80 years, 'America's first Waco' has
not been forgotten. Feb. 1928 - Feb. 2008.
(Thanks to Crawling Chaos Pictures)
February 1: Dunwich Horror premiere
announced!
The world premiere for Richard Griffin's
The
Dunwich Horror is set for Friday,
April 4th!
Watch this space for details...
(Thanks to Richard Griffin)
February 1: Whisperer in Darkness
signings!
Matt and Mike from Gravehill
Productions will be signing and selling
Whisperer in Darkness DVDs
at the Oakridge TN branch of Mr. K's Used
Books (374 Illinois ave. Oak Ridge TN) on
February 2nd from Noon - 4 pm. There will
be DVDs, posters and T-shirts available
for sale...
GraveHill
Productions will also attend a KAPOW Wrestling
event in Lenoir City TN on February 2nd
from 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm at the National Guard
armory. They will be signing and selling
all of the above merchandise during the
event...
Frontline Films latest feature, Dark
Paradox, will screen Sunday, February
24th at the Roxy Theatre in Victoria BC.
Showtime is at 5 pm and admission is $8.00
($7.00 adv. at Legends Comics)...
(Thanks to Brian Clemente)
February 1: Angry and Moist at Hyde
Park
James Raynor's
Angry and Moist: An Undead Chronicle
will be playing at the Hyde Park Picture
House as part of an afternoon of short films.
The screenings take place February 9th between
2:30 and 5:30 pm. Hyde Park Picture House
is located on Brudenell Road in Leeds. Entry
is only £3...
(Thanks
to James Raynor)
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headlines...
January 30: Will del
Toro ever incite Madness?
January 30: The Frolic DVD is ready!
January 30: New B.P.R.D member revealed
January 30: Jane Rose on the web...
January 27: The latest from Lurker Films
