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Director Robert P. Olsson provided these images from his Lovecraftian short film, "13:de mars 1941" ("The Hole"). The film was entered in the September 2004 short film festival 'Filmörnen' ('The Movie Eagle') for which it won a best sound award. Click here for more information about 'Filmörnen' and 'Film i Värmland' (a Swedish regional center for film that hosts the event). Robert also informed
me that BigBellyFilm's official website will return early this year.
Look for further information soon... More information as the shoot progresses! (Thanks to Dark Lord Rob) January 28: The Hole: 13th march 1941 The year is 1941. Two Investigators are doing research on an old well. One of the gentlemen climbs down the hole and then they communicate through an military phone. But something is strange, the place, the hole, and then the phone... Director/writer Robert P. Olsson recently updated me on the status of a film I heard about on the IMDb message boards. The film is called "The Hole" (or The Hole: 13th march 1941), and it was co-written with Roberts friend Björn-Erik Karlsson. The film is based on "The Statement of Randolph Carter". After the film is re-subtitled it will be submitted to this year H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Robert and Björn-Erik are currently working on a script based on the concept of the roleplaying game 'Cthulhu Mythos'. You can find further information by visiting the films IMDb listing here. (Thanks to Robert P. Olsson) January 28: Looking for Lovecraft's Shorts! ...Short Films that is ;) BiFF JUGGERNAUT Productions is now accepting submissions for "LovecraCked! The Movie", a feature length DVD anthology dedicated to the life & work of influential horror author H.P. Lovecraft. There is no fee for submission. The goal of this project is to offer all shorts-films included on the DVD an opportunity to reach a greater audience than would normally be afforded to any individual short film. For info on how to submit click the link below... http://biffjuggernaut.com/submission Feel free to write me at elias@biffjuggernaut.com with any questions or comments. We look forward to seeing your films! Elias (Thanks to Elias) January 28: New reviews added! Bob Brinkman has provided Unfilmable.com with a variety of new reviews including John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness and several flash animated games. Click here for Prince of Darkness, and here for the Lovecraft based games... (Thanks to Bob Brinkman) Dread Central recently visited the set of Tobe Hoopers upcoming film, Mortuary. During the set visit they also interviewed writers Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch. Although the film has lost some of it's Lovecraftian appeal, it still sounds like an interesting project worth keeping an eye on... From Dread Central, Mr. Dark: So what can we tell the world about Mortuary? Adam Gierasch: Mortuary is the story of a family, a woman, her son, and her daughter, who get a lease with an option to buy on a mortuary. The mother has decided to get into the mortuary business. Jace Anderson: She’s just completed school, she’s brand new, and she’s ready to get her business rolling. So, they move cross-country into this wonderful house. JA: And, well...there’s an evil, under the mortuary and the cemetery. JA: Let’s just say corpses do unusual things and there’s a lot of vomit and slime. AG: There’s a legend, a history, of a deformed child of the people who used to run the mortuary. There’s a legend that he still prowls the grounds at night. JA: We should say that it’s Lovecraft-inspired. It used to be set in Arkham, Massachusetts. It used to be much more directly Lovecraftian and since we’ve moved it to southern California, we toned that down. It’s still definitely influenced by Lovecraft. Lovecraft fans will see the influence of things like "Colour Out Of Space." Click here for the set visit, and here for the complete interview. (Thanks to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/) January 28: 'Nightmares of Lovecraft' are coming!
From Action-Figure.com, "SOTA Toys will also be producing and distributing a line of action figures based on the characters Cthulhu, Shoggoth, and Pickman's Model, which first appeared within the pages of books from famed classic horror writer H. P. Lovecraft." (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) January 28: Evil Dead remake news... During an interview with Sci Fi Wire, Rob Tapert (long-time Sam Raimi friend and collaborator) spoke about the upcoming remake of the original Evil Dead... From Sci Fi Wire, "As long as we stay true to what was the original model of the first Evil Dead, which was that we want to hurt and punish the audience, then those who love it will be satisfied.We mean to bring that out to a whole new generation in something that honors all of the people that loved it and yet gives them a new and thrilling ride that they weren't expecting. That's the challenge, and hopefully if we succeed that's kind of the glory." Check out the entire interview here. (Thanks to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/) January 28: Call of Cthulhu video game, coming soon? Dread Central looked into the frequently delayed game adaptation Call of Cthulhu. They found out (through a representative from Bethesda Softworks) that the game "looks" to be out in late March or early April... Visit the official website here. (Thanks to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/) The HP Lovecraft Historical Society is back with an all new trailer for their upcoming adaptation of "The Call of Cthulhu"! Check it out here! (Thanks to Sean Branney) January 22: Incident at the Mortuary... Fangoria.com has cleared up some recent reports in regards to an accident on the set of Tobe Hooper's Mortuary. According to other sources, actress Courtney Peldon was stabbed during a fight scene in which a co-star was given a real knife instead of a prop. A production source cleared things up: "Courtney's palm got cut, and she went to the hospital just to have it checked out. Another actor was supposed to cut Courtney's hand in the scene to determine if her character is infected. There was a Swiss army knife, with a blade that was especially dulled for this scene. This actor accidentally opened up the wrong blade, and cut Courtney's palm with it. But there was no violent stabbing or anything of that nature. Courtney finished her day's work, and then she went to the hospital, and she's doing fine-she was doing an action scene and running around the next day." (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) January 22: NYC Horror Film Festival Call for Entries The 2005 New York City Horror Film Festival has opened it's call for entries. This festival will be held at the Tribeca Film Center in lower Manhattan and takes place Oct. 18 - 23. The early deadline is Sept. 1, 2005 with the final deadline set for Sept. 15, 2005. For more festival news, submission details and wrap-up of past festivals; visit the official website here. (Thanks to http://www.reallyscary.com/) January 22: Festival of Horror Call for Entries Call For Entries :: Regular Deadline August 15, 2005 We're looking for out there, experimental, edgy movies that go against the grain, challenge the dominant paradigm, make us experience the world differently, or digs into the human mind and psyche. Horror Submission fees $30 per Short Film / $40 per Feature Film Regular Deadline August 15, 2005, Late Deadline August 25, 2005 For More Info: http://www.festivalofhorror.com (Thanks to Max Krueger) January 22: Empire of Satanis Darrick Dishaw has created a new dark fantasy RPG inspired by Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Hellraiser, and his own personal nightmares called Empire of Satanis. It will officially debut at the Cthulhu One convention, but you can check it out and download it here for free: http://grumblingdwarf.no-ip.com/forum/files.asp (Thanks to Darrick Dishaw) January 22: Book of the Dead update Click here for a Book of the Dead comic update, courtesy of creature-corner.com. (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) January 22: Gramma on DVD The first season of the "The Twilight Zone" (1985-1986) has recently been released on DVD. Season One contains the episode "Gramma", which is Harlan Ellison's adaptation of the very Lovecraftian Stephen King story (read a review here). Click here for more. (Thanks to Bob Brinkman) Check them out here! (Thanks to Anna Gawrilow) January 15: Loads of reviews added! Bob Brinkman passed along a load of new reviews including the amazing animated short film Ryleh, and various flash animated films based on Evil Dead, Re-Animator and others... The Ryleh review can be found here. The others are here. (Thanks to Bob Brinkman) January 15: Will Hellboy win an Oscar? According to fangoria.com, Hellboy is one of the seven films on the short list for nomination for 2004’s Best Makeup Oscar. Fangoria reports, "The nominating committee, made up of industry professionals in the field, will view 10-minute presentations for each movie at a special screening January 22. Members will have the option to nominate up to three movies, recommend a single title for a special achievement award or advise that no award be presented in the makeup category this year. Interestingly, Hellboy (whose prosthetic/creature FX were created by Chad Waters and Matt Rose from Rick Baker’s Cinevision shop and Mike Elizalde’s Spectral Motion company) is the only horrific title on the list; the other potential nominees are The Aviator, De-Lovely, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events, The Passion of the Christ and The Sea Inside. The Academy Award nominations will be announced Tuesday, January 25, and the Oscar ceremony will be held Sunday, February 27." (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) Anna Gawrilow (a media design student from Bauhaus University in Germany) is currently working on a stop motion animated film based on H.P. Lovecraft's "The Music of Erich Zann"! The project, to be completed in May of this year, was written for the screen, animated and directed by Anna. The finished film will clock in at about 9 min... More as it becomes available! (Thanks to Anna Gawrilow) January 13: Bruce G. Hallenbeck interview With the world premiere of London After Midnight less than two weeks away (as part of The Dead of Winter Free Film Festival at the New York State Museum, See December 26th), Jeff Kirkendall (associate producer & editor) has taken the opportunity to interview Bruce G. Hallenbeck (director) about the project. Mr. Hallenbeck -- who besides being a filmmaker has also written for such magazines as Fangoria, Cinefantastique, Monsterland and others -- discusses the making of the movie as well as his various other projects. The interview can be found here. (Thanks to Jeff Kirkendall) January 13: New reviews added! I've just added several new reviews from Bob Brinkman, including The Unnamable II, Cthulego, In the Vault and The Sleeper Awakes... (Thanks to Bob Brinkman) Click here to order. (Thanks to Ivan Zuccon) Adam Gierasch (Mortuary's scriptwriter) gave Fangoria.com an update on the movie's current cast/crew status, as well as an unfortunate change in locations... The film has added Denise (Pet Sematary) Crosby as its female lead. "She plays the mother (in the movie's family)", Adam explains, "who gets a lease with an option to buy on this mortuary, and decides to go into business for herself. She's learning the ins and outs of the mortuary business. Wacky hijinx ensue." The feature's new cinematographer is Jaron Presant (not the previously announced Steve Yedlin). Jaron's credits include 2nd-unit lensing on Toolbox Murders and May. The film (which was to be set in Arkham, Massachusetts) now takes place in a Southern California town, since it's shooting in Pomona, CA. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) January 7: Unfilmable.com get's Blog'D Special thanks to Brother D for naming Unfilmable.com the best Lovecraft Related Website of 2004! Check out all of The 2004 Blog'D Awards results here. (Thanks to Brother D) January 7: LovecraCked update! According to director Elias, "LovecraCked!" is currently in audio postproduction, but should be finished shortly. The film will probably clock in at around 30 minutes when it's completed. Afterwards, BiFF JUGGERNAUT is going to shop the film around as an extra for a larger Lovecraft related film release. In other news, BiFF JUGGERNAUT has added their psychological horror film, "The Voice Inside", to their website. While not Lovecraft related, the film (which can be found here) did screen at the Providence, RI NecronomiCon in 2001. (Thanks to Elias) January 7: Frank Darabont's The Mist (Although I've never read The Mist, I have read that it is most likely the most Lovecraftian story Stephen King has ever written...) In a recent interview, Frank Darabont told Latino Review that The Mist will be the next film he directs after his long in the works take on Fahrenheit 451 (although fangoria.com reports that it may in fact be his next film). "What I love about The Mist is how character driven it is. It's a really heated human situation. That's really where the story is. It's not so much with the monsters outside. I will not forsake the monsters though. That's part of the fun." Frank explains, "Whether it’s a studio picture or not, I want to go with a very gritty, low-budget indie approach. Big-budget gloss would work against the material, plus I’m excited about trying my hand at a more seat-of-the-pants filmmaking approach on this one than I’ve used in the past," he went on to say, "I’ll use whatever approach works best, so probably [expect] a mix of things. But I want to go as old school as possible with the effects. It’s a rather old-school story anyway; it feels like a movie that might have been made in the ’50s. The thing to bear in mind about The Mist is that you don’t actually see that much as King wrote it; it’s the stuff you don’t see that scares you, sort of like in Jaws. I want to maintain the tension of King’s story rather than overload the screen with CGI monsters." More as it becomes available. (Thanks to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/) Here's a rough list of DVD releases for 2005. This is subject to change, and will be ever expanding! Some information is courtesy of fangoria.com... January 2005 March 22, 2005 May 2005 Future Undated (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) Here's the latest Miskatonic Acid Test news, straight from director Dark Lord Rob! "Bad weather and the holidays bumped production back to the weekend after next (15th + 16th) but (barring a blizzard) we are go! The first scenes did go ahead on schedule; all second unit stuff (some Portland architecture filling in for Arkham... quite effectively, too). Our cast of dozens is primed and ready to go; the music is primo 60's-style rock..." He also hopes to have some of the music, including the theme song: "Come to Arkham (the Wind in Your Hair)", posted on the official website soon. The theme song was inspired by Scott McKenzie's 60's 'classic' "San Francisco (Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)". Look for some production stills in the coming weeks! (Thanks to Dark Lord Rob) January 5: 50 Years Of The Gill-man review Click here for a review of Creature Feature: 50 Years Of The Gill-man, courtesy of Dread Central... (Thanks to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/) We are making a low-budget action/horror movie in Portland called "Flesh of my Flesh". You can visit the website at: http://www.fleshofmyflesh.com/ We need zombies. Oh, you know it, zombies! The Hungry Undead! The Apocalypse of Flesh! The Taste-Driven Predatory Future of Mankind! No cash pay, but everyone in the movie gets listed in the credits and a copy of the DVD when it's done. All of our other movies: http://www.petting-zoo.org/Movies.html If you're interested, please drop an e-mail to edward@fleshofmyflesh.com with the subject line "I wanna be a zombie!" and include contact information for yourself. Please feel free to pass this around however you wish. If you REALLY wanna get in on the fun, please come join our Yahoo Group at: http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/FleshOfMyFlesh Cheers, Edward (Thanks to Edward Martin
III) The good folks at Dread Central dropped Stuart Gordon a line to see if they could get anymore info on the lost From Beyond footage. Stuart provided the following details: "I'm still flying high from the discovery. I've been working on the upcoming DVD release of From Beyond with Greg Carson at MGM and got a call a couple of days before Christmas that they had found some footage. So I went to their postproduction facility in Century City not sure what to expect. They showed me a small film can full of trims, picture and sound. The can was labeled "For video version" and I recognized the writing of my From Beyond editor Lee Percy. My heart started to race. The trims were threaded up on an old flatbed, and there they were: all the scenes that had been cut by the MPAA nineteen years ago. I had looked for this material in the early 90's but was told it had been thrown out. I assumed it had been lost forever. I almost cried. The footage includes the complete brain sucking sequence in which Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) sucks out Dr. Bloch's (my wife Carolyn Purdy Gordon) eyeball and spits it out. The eyeball lands on the floor looking up at the camera (it took forever to get that shot). And then we push in on his mouth as he sucks out her brain through her eye socket. I can still remember the lady from the MPAA scolding me about this shot like I was a bad kid sent to the principal's office. "How could you have ever thought we would give you an R rating when instead of cutting away you continue to push in closer and closer AND CLOSER?!" There is also some extended brain munching, nudity and violence. The only scene that is still missing is one I cut out myself. It occurs early in the film when Crawford goes to tell Dr. Pretorious that the Resonator is working. As Pretorious leaves his bedroom Crawford hears moaning inside and looks in. He sees a beautiful naked young woman trussed up S&M style. In her mouth is a large three-penny nail that has been pounded through her tongue. Crawford frees her and pulls out the nail. She throws a coat over her shoulders and runs out. I cut this scene because I thought the MPAA would never allow such perversion, and now every other kid has a pierced tongue. The lesson I learned is to never censor myself. The good folks at MGM are still looking for this scene. The plan is to recut the lost footage back into the film and release a Directors Cut. They also plan to release the first wide screen version of From Beyond and are planning a ton of extras to make it comparable to Elite's Millennium Edition of Re-Animator..." (Thanks to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/) Tobe Hooper's Lovecraftian horror film, Mortuary begins shooting today in Pomona, CA. The film reunites him with Toolbox Murders producer Tony DiDio and scriptwriters Adam Gierasch and Jace Anderson. Also on board is cinematographer Steve Yedlin, makeup FX artists Dean and Starr Jones and actors Greg Travis and Price Carson. Evan Katz and Peter Katz are also producing... Other cast members include Dan (Salem's Lot) Byrd, Alexandra Adi, Courtney Peldon and Bug Hall, Michael Shamus Wiles, Lee Garlington and writer Gierasch himself. Adam tells fangoria.com, "If people like slime and vomiting and weird monsters, they’ll love this." The movie is about a family that moves to the town of Arkham, Massachusetts and takes on the job of running a local funeral home, where an evil presence resides in the adjoining cemetery. The official website can be found here. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) January 4: New Halfway House review... Click here to read a new review of Kenneth Hall's The Halfway House courtesy of cultcuts.net. please note: contains adult material (Thanks to http://www.cultcuts.net/) January 4: New Army of Darkness toys Bloody-disgusting.com writes, "Diamond Select Toys and Collectibles has signed a new license for Army of Darkness, according to Action-Figure.com. This new license includes a collectable beanie release, which will be hitting stores in May of 2005." Click here for more. (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) Click here
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The official website for director Ken Waller and producer Ken Verdon's "At the Mountains of Madness" is no longer online. I was unable to contact anyone associated with the project while is was active, and the films current status is unknown... (Thanks to Bob Brinkman) David Schmidt's excellent short film, The Lovecraft Syndrome, will screen at the upcoming Cthulhu One Convention. It previously screened last October at the Culture of Fear event in Chicago... Cthulhu One will have everything mythos oriented including: artwork, literature, lectures on H. P. Lovecaft and his work, film screenings, dark ambient music, black magic, the Call of Cthulhu role playing game and card game - all this plus guests of honor S. T. Joshi and Robert M. Price. A whole May Eve weekend of nothing but fantasy, science fiction, horror, the weird tale, slime, tentacles, insanity! Click here for more... (Thanks to Darrick Dishaw and Bob
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