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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Maelstrom Productions is looking to cast the role of Asenath in their upcoming version of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep". The feature (to be named Strange Aeons) will be shooting in the Seattle area this fall. Asenath is a female character about 18-25, for more details please see: http://www.maelstromproductions.com/ or send headshots to emorgret@comcast.net (Thanks to Eric Morgret) July 29: Pete Von Sholly at the NecroComicon! Pete Von Sholly, an artist whose work has been featured on Unfilmable.com in the past (you can find it here) is going to be a guest at the upcoming NecroComicon. An accomplished artist, Pete Von Sholly has worked for almost twenty years as a storyboard artist with the likes of Brian Yuzna, Tim Burton and Frank Darabont. His storyboard work has ranged from cult classics like "Heathers" and "Freaked" to Oscar nominated films like "The Shawshank Redemption". He has also worked on several Lovecraft productions including "Bride of Re-Animator" and "Necronomicon". His graphic work, including mock covers for "Classics Illustrated", have appeared in the magazine Alter Ego (issue #29), and he has released "Crazy Hip Groovy Go Go Way Out Monsters" and the graphic novel "Morbid" (released by TwoMorrows and Dark Horse). Click here for more information, or here for Pete's official website. (Thanks to Thomas J Gleason) July 29: Another del Toro sighting! Golden Apple Comics is having a Hellboy DVD release party and Guillermo del Toro will be there! Also in attendance will be Ron Perlman, Doug Jones and many more cast and crew members. Mike Mignola has agreed to pre-sign the first 100 copies although he can not be here in person. The signing is Saturday July 31, 2004 from 2PM - 4PM. Click here for more. (Thanks to Aaron Vanek) July 29: Hellboy 2 news According to countingdown.com, Guillermo del Toro and Mike Mignola plan to "co-create an all new villain for the film" They go on to add, "This new villain will lead the mystical monsters of the Hellboy-verse in an attempt to overthrow humanity." The full update can be found here. (Thanks to http://www.countingdown.com/) The fine folks at The Dunwich Herald have awarded Unfilmable.com their Cthulhu Seal of Approval! (Thanks to Edgar Allan
Lovecraft) Guillermo del Toro will be at Laser Blazer, in Los Angeles, to sign copies of the Hellboy DVD when it is released on Tuesday, July 27th, from 5pm-9pm. Laser Blazer is located
at: Click here for more! (Thanks to http://aintitcoolnews.com/) Sources: Figures and creature-corner.com Creature-corner.com reports that SOTA Toys is planning a series of Lovecraftian figures sometime in the future! The above image of Cthulhu came from this years Comic Con, and is a "pet project" of SOTA Toys' president, Jerry Macaluso. More as it becomes available! (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) July 26: Lovecraft documentary DVD Fangoria.com gave The Eldritch Influence (the Lovecraft documentary by Shawn Owens) some press as you can see below! ...Hermetic Productions has just released THE ELDRITCH INFLUENCE: THE LIFE, VISION AND PHENOMENON OF H.P. LOVECRAFT. This 85-minute DVD examines the works and influence of the creator of the Cthulhu mythos, and features extensive interviews with RE-ANIMATOR/DAGON director Stuart Gordon, SANDMAN creator Neil Gaiman and authors Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley and S.T. Joshi. DVD features also include deleted scenes and an "Art of the Eldritch Influence" photo gallery; only 1,000 copies of the disc have been pressed, so hurry over to the Hermetic site, where it's available for $21.99 plus $3 shipping and handling. -Michael Gingold (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) According to the official website, the first rough cut of The Unnamable is now complete. They are currently working on a new trailer for release at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon. The website also has a message board that the filmmakers participate in from time to time. You can find it here. (Thanks to http://www.the-unnamable.com/) Well it seems I dropped the ball on this one folks (sorry Ivan!). Ivan emailed me this information the other day and I forgot to post it. Now Fangoria has beat me to it... Anyhow, here it their
news item on Ivan Zuccon's Colour from the Dark (they even linked
to my official CftD website). Italy-based writer/director Ivan (THE SHUNNED HOUSE) Zuccon will begin production on another H.P. Lovecraft-inspired film, COLOUR FROM THE DARK, on September 1. The movie is based on the HPL tale THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE, previously filmed (badly!) as DIE, MONSTER, DIE! and THE CURSE. The new adaptation will wrap around January 2005. “My COLOUR FROM THE DARK takes place in Italy, in the 1940s, with WWII raging,” Zuccon tells Fango. “Pietro and Lucia live on an isolated farm with Alice, Lucia’s younger sister. Alice is 15 years old and suffers from severe mental problems. Poor farmers, they live tilling the soil. Pietro is a good worker and a strong man who, unlike his three brothers, is not at war because of a deformed knee. Lucia is a beautiful and reserved woman dedicated to her family. Their life is peaceful and good, in spite of the hard work. One day, while drawing water from the well, Pietro and Alice accidentally free something from Earth’s womb. A strange and alien color flashes underwater, at the well's bottom, then disappears. From that moment on, inexplicable events start happening all around the farm, and by night the surrounding vegetation glitters with a sinister glow. The color soon takes hold of the whole farm, and dwelling inside Pietro and his family’s minds, it brings them into its sick world of pain, blood and death.” COLOUR FROM THE DARK is a co-production between Zuccon’s Italian Studio Interzona company and Canadian producers David Bond and Jeff Thomas from Exofest. “We have a better budget than SHUNNED HOUSE,” says Zuccon, who also helmed the two direct-to-video BEYOND films, “but we will shoot again in DigiBeta. But the Canadian guys have a connection with a Hollywood-based company and will transfer the movie to 35mm for a U.S. theatrical release.” For more info on COLOUR, click here. -Tony Timpone (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) July 20: Fangoria features Evil Dead: The Musical Click here for fangoria.com's feature on Evil Dead: The Musical. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) Edgar Allan Lovecraft
(Editor of The Dunwich Herald) passed along the following: "Howard and Howard" "There's no odder couple than bookish introvert H.P. Lovecraft and two-fisted Robert E. Howard! Enjoy the shenanigans as the two pulp authors share an apartment in 1930's Manhattan!" "The Miskatonic Acid Test" "In the late sixties, things went very, very wrong at a psychedelic rock concert in witch-haunted Arkham, Massachusetts. Thirty years later, a group of the survivors are finding themselves compelled to repeat the experience." The original stories that these projects are based on can be found on the website, as well as another Lovecraftian tale called The Abomination! Click here to check out Rob's great American Entropy website. More as it becomes available. (Thanks to Edgar Allan Lovecraft) July 19: Uzumaki DVD winners announced! Click here to see if you were one of the lucky winners in the Horror Channel Uzumaki DVD giveaway! (Thanks to http://www.horrorchannel.com/) July 19: Evil Dead: The Musical review Creature-corner.com correspondent Gilbert Rousseau, had the opportunity to see Evil Dead: The Musical, and you can read his review by clicking here! (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) Source: bloody-disgusting.com, Moviehole According to bloody-disgusting.com, Freddy vs. Jason 2 may get the green-light while they work out the legal aspects of Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash... ~ Moviehole talked to a New Line source today who said that there's actually a couple of ideas floating about for the highly-anticipated "Freddy vs. Jason" sequel. One idea is the much talked-about "Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash" template - which apparently is a bit of a beast to organize because of the different parties involved - and the other is a direct sequel to the first film, picking up where Freddy and Jason left off. We're told that "Blade" alumni Stephen Norrington is interested in directing the straight-sequel to "Freddy vs. Jason", which is being written by newcomer Adam MacQueen. Norrington was once linked to the first film. The studio are apparently aiming for a Summer 2005 release for the sequel. ~ (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) Company Overview: We're a producer of direct to video/DVD productions as well as video web content. Our first project, "Girls of Tattoo U." is a documentary series about tattoos and tattooing in Rhode Island. Job Description: We need someone to design, build and possibly operate octopus tentacles for a low-budget independent horror video series tentatively entitled "The Many Loves of Cthulhu." The tentacles should be non-toxic, water-resistant, and have various movement capabilities. If interested please contact Chris or Steve at 401 864-3775 or email at atomicsteve@cox.net. Contact: Steve Ahlquist,
Boomstick!, the follow-up to Evil Dead: The Musical, plays Fridays and Saturdays at 10 p.m., July 2nd thru August 28th at the Boxer Rebellion Theater (1257 W. Loyola, Chicago). You can also catch Boomstick! at the Flashback Weekend Horror & Sci-Fi Convention on July 31. Click here
for more. Horror
Asylum recently had the opportunity to interview The Halfway
House writer/director Kenneth J. Hall. You can read that interview
by clicking here.
There's also added an early review of the film which you can find here. (Thanks to http://www.halfwayhouse-movie.com) July 12: Uzumaki
DVD review ...Blending bizarre physical effects with subtle, surprisingly effective CGI, Uzumaki is almost a Lovecraftian tale of evil without purpose, other than the destruction of whatever it touches. Unlike most other Japanese horror that seems to have a base cultural fear as it's starting point, this film is a wholly original idea that you most likely won't find anything similar to in this or another other culture, with the only thing coming anywhere near it being a few select Lovecraft stories... Click here to check out the rest of Creature-corner.com's review of the newly released Uzumaki DVD from Elite (see Unfilmable.com news: July 10th for a chance to win a copy from The Horror Channel!). (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) ...and Coming Soon to Unfilmable.com... These are just a few of the things I'm working on... Updates on the following features and short films: The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Sean Branney and Andrew Leman's "The Call of Cthulhu", Brian Brethauer's "Out of Oblivion", Rick Tillman's "The Summoning" and Robert Cappelletto's "Pickman's Muse". Reviews of the John Carpenter film "In the Mouth of Madness" (courtesy of Bob Brinkman) and Kenneth J. Hall's "The Halfway House" (by myself). And new images from Barrett
Leigh and Thom Maurer's feature length adaptation of "Beyond
the Wall of Sleep". Source: cthulhulives.org Cameras will roll this summer on the next ambitious project of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society: a vintage film adaptation of Lovecraft's most famous and influential story, "The Call of Cthulhu." The Society is making this movie the way it might have been made if it had been done in 1927, when the old gentleman from Providence wrote the story. It will be a black-and-white silent film with an orchestral score and intertitles. It will be a faithful adaptation of the story, shot using old-fashioned stage and cinema techniques. When the film is completed (scheduled for late this year), it will be available on DVD from their website. More as it becomes available. (Thanks to http://www.cthulhulives.org/toc.html) July 10: Uzumaki DVD
Giveaway! 1. How many films in
the RING series did Hideo Nakata direct? Know the answers? Then click here rules and submission (the deadline is July 14th) info! (Thanks to http://www.horrorchannel.com/) July 10: The NYC Horror Fests Call for Entries The NYC Horror Film Festival recently announced it's call for entries for the 2004 festival. The festival will take place October 20th through the 24th. The early deadline is September 1st, and the final deadline is September 15th. It will be held (once again) at the Tribeca Film Center in lower Manhattan. Click here for complete details. (Thanks to http://bloody-disgusting.com/) July 10: Lovecraft and the Blind Dead Christopher K. Philippo recently updated his post about the possible Lovecraft connections in Amando de Ossorio's Blind Dead series (see news: June 27th). He found the following information in the book "Knights of Terror: The Blind Dead Films of Amando de Ossorio" by Nigel J. Burrell (Midnight Media, 1995). "NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS (The Blind Dead 4) is often unfairly described as being the poorest of the BLIND DEAD films, but this is clearly not at all the case, as even a cursory comparison with HORROR OF THE ZOMBIES proves. The more intriguing plot (the main thrust of which would appear to be an attack on provincial superstition and ignorance) reminds one of H.P.Lovecraft's excellent story THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH in that both depict inbred rural tradition and the worship of age-old deities. There is a poetic conceit in NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS that explains the somewhat cryptic title; in an idea reminiscent of Lovecraft's 'whippoorwhills' (birds that gather to collect the souls of the dying), we are told that the dead girls return as seagulls." (Thanks to Christopher
K. Philippo) July 3, 2004 Portland's Guerrilla Productions and Lurker Films announced today their plan to re-release and distribute the animated feature film "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath". According to Lovecraftian filmmaker Edward Martin III ("The Call of Cthulhu", "The Testament of Tom Jacoby", "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", "Innsmouth Legacy"), "I think this is as close as you can get to a perfect partnership. Andrew Migliore, more than anyone I know, has his finger on the lurching, uncontrollable pulse of Lovecraft-based movies, and we're really, really honored that he's asked us to be charter members of the H. P. Lovecraft Collection. We've already remastered the audio for the new project and are looking forward to spending more of our time making the movies we want to see." Andrew Migliore of Lurker Films says "We are excited to be re-releasing The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath on DVD. Based on Jason Thompson's imaginative and fantastic artwork, Dreamquest takes the viewer on a journey through the panoramic vistas of Lovecraft's dream-world locations for the first time. We also plan to round out the DVD with other short animated films such as Geoff Clark's In the Vault and Richard Corben's The Canal." "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", one of only two novels written by Lovecraft, tells the story of Randolph Carter, an adventurer and a dreamer, who seeks out a marvelous Sunset City previously glimpsed only in dream. Guerrilla Productions, fueled almost entirely by caffeine, released their first feature, "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" in October 2003 and has completed four short movies since. GP is currently is shooting a new short entitled "Innsmouth Legacy", and in preproduction on a live action horror/thriller. Not bad for someone less than a year old. Lurker Films, Inc. (formerly Beyond Books) was founded in 1995 by Andrew Migliore to munch popcorn where cultists fear to tread, producing DVDs, Videos, and Audio CDs of the famous, infamous and just plain obscure films and television shows that have been directly or indirectly inspired by Lovecraft's work. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- For more information,
contact Please download a official
Press Kit in Adobe PDF format from The Official "The
Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" website: Lurker Films: The 2003 H. P. Lovecraft
Film Festival web site: The Land of the Blind
website: Jason Thompson's Mockman
Press website: (Thanks to Edward Martin
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