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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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June
28: Re-Animator 20th Anniversary Screening
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LA’s
American
Cinematheque will be presenting its 6th Annual
Festival of Fantasy, Horror & Science Fiction
July 30-August 19 at the Egyptian (6712 Hollywood
Boulevard) and Aero (1328 Montana Avenue at 14th Street
in Santa Monica) Theatres in Los Angeles.
Attractions
include a 20th anniversary screening of Re-Animator
August 12. A discussion panel will follow with director
Stuart Gordon and various cast and crew.
A
full schedule of events should be available soon...
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(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/)
June 28: Cthulhu interview continued!
Part 2 of Dread
Central's exclusive interview with Sean Branney &
Andrew Leman (The
HP Lovecraft Historical Society) can be found here...
(Thanks
to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/)
June 27: Call of Cthulhu interview!
Click
here
to read Dread Central's exclusive interview with Sean
Branney & Andrew Leman (Call
of Cthulhu). The interview is part 1 of 2...
(Thanks
to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/)
June
26: Pickman and Poe ~ updated ~
Lurker
Films are currently putting together Vol. 4 of the
H.P. Lovecraft Collection on DVD. The latest DVD will
contain Cathy Welch's 1980 adaptation of Pickman's
Model and Giovanni Furore's Italian version
of the same. Other films and features will be announced
at a later date.
Lurker
Films are also hard at work on Vol. 1 of the Edgar Allan
Poe Collection DVD! The first volume will include George
Higham's Annabel
Lee and Peter Bradley's The
Raven...
(Thanks
to Andrew Migliore)
...Remember,
the The
H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival amateur flash contest
deadline for entries is July 1st...
June
24: Late Bloomer in Sweden!
Craig
Macneill's Late Bloomer has been added to an already
impressive lineup of films set to screen at the MiskatoniCON!
Visit the official
website for more...
(Thanks
to http://www.miskatonicon.com/)
June
23: Welcome to Doomtown
Happy
Cloud Pictures present: Doomtown - A private detective
searching for a missing woman and a film crew out to produce
a knock-off reality show arrive in a town filled with
monsters on the last day of the world. A "Lovecraftian
Comedy"...
Tentatively scheduled to begin production in Spring, 2006.
The cast includes Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer),
Mike Quinn (The Dark Crystal), Amy Lynn Best, Reggie
Bannister (Phantasm), Debbie Rochon, Brinke Stevens
(Nightmare Sisters), Greg Nicotero (KNB Effects)
and Tom Savini (Dawn of the Dead).
(Thanks
to Christopher K. Philippo)
June
22: Casting Call for Portland Production!
For
Immediate Release:
The
following casting call was released today, via the Flesh
of my Flesh yahoo group:
This
weekend, I will be shooting a short film with a Lovecraftian
script. I am in need of actors for this film: in particular
--
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One (1) teenager, who will be the lead. If you are not
an actual teenager, you need to look like you could be
a teenager. You will need to deliver a hell of a lot of
lines and deliver them convincingly as an angst-ridden,
sullen, and at times terrified kid. Male or female doesn't
matter, I can change the script to fit either. If you're
under 18 you'll need to be accompanied by a parent or
guardian. You should send me a head shot unless I know
you personally. Also, we will need to meet sometime in
the next couple of days, or at least speak over the phone,
so I can evaluate your delivery.
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Several adult extras who can look prim, proper, and cleaned-up.
If you're the parent or guardian of the possible minor
mentioned above, you can be an extra, too!
Just
so we're clear, this is all going to happen in the Portland,
Oregon area. If you're not in the Portland area, but can
come here for a shoot this Sunday, then it could work.
Email
me if you want in: maxomai@aracnet.com.
"Auditions" in the form of an interview and
a reading will happen Thursday and Friday evenings, so
let me know soon.
Mike promises to provide further information about the
production soon...
(Thanks
to Mike Smith)
June 22: Hive update
According
to Hive author Tim Curran, the bloody-disgusting.com
article (see: June 16th)
was taken down because it was mostly rumor. A production
company is indeed looking at Hive, but there are
no active plans for Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge,
Marebito) to direct a film version or for it even
to be made...
(Thanks
to Tim Curran)
June
22: Oswald's Green is no more...
In
an attempt to update the forthcoming terrors page, I recently
inquired about the status of Brian Hauser's feature film
"One Night on Oswald's Green",
and received an unfortunate reply...
Brian has informed me that work on the project has been
discontinued, at least for the foreseeable future. A lack
of funding and problems that occurred in post-production
brought about the decision...
(Thanks
to Brian Hauser)
June
21: The Fog clears!
Sony
Pictures sent fangoria.com the first official photo from
their remake of The Fog. Pictured is Rade Serbedzija
as Father Blake (played by Hal Holbrook and called Father
Malone in the original movie)...
(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/)
June
17: Official Fog poster
Check it out! The official 'coming soon' poster for The
Fog. The new official website can be found here...
(Thanks
to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)
June
17: Colour from the Dark lives!
Ivan Zuccon sends news that his adaptation of "The
Colour Out of Space" is once again on the move.
Work is underway on a new draft of the script, and shooting
could start as early as this coming winter. Timeline srl
(Bad Brains) will
be producing along with Studio Interzona and others...
Visit
the official website
for more.
(Thanks
to Ivan Zuccon)
June 16: Big screen Hive? ~
updated ~
Bloody-disgusting.com
reports that director Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge,
Marebito) has expressed interest (through producer
Roy Lee) in developing Tim Curren's sequel to "At
the Mountains of Madness" for the big screen.
Shimuzu (who is a big Lovecraft fan) became aware of the
novel, entitled Hive, by reading BD's interview
with Curren (see June 13 news)...
More
as it becomes available!
update: This news item was
removed from bloody-disgusting.com. No explanation was
given...
(Thanks
to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)
June
16: Enter The Sleeping Deep
Flickers
Pictures is currently developing a novel/screenplay called
The Sleeping Deep. The supernatural thriller takes
place in the backwoods of Maine, and is described as H.P.
Lovecraft meets X-Files with a Stephen King twang.
The story involves two women who must destroy an underwater
dream world before its gruesome inhabitants find passage
into the waking reality of humans...
You
can read the one-page synopsis by clicking here.
(PDF, registered with WGAw)
(Thanks
to http://www.flickerpictures.com/)
June
16: More from the Mortuary
Check
out creature-corner.com's Fangoria Weekend of Horrors
report
for news on Tobe Hooper's upcoming film, Mortuary...
(Thanks
to http://www.creature-corner.com/)
June
16: BV Entertainment Announces DVD Release of THE HALFWAY
HOUSE ~ updated ~
For Immediate Release:
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Skouras/Ventura
to Release "THE HALFWAY HOUSE" in
August
North Hollywood, CA June 15, 2005 August 23, 2005,
Skouras/Ventura will release Kenneth J. Hall's horror/exploitation/comedy
THE HALFWAY HOUSE on DVD, the first feature
on BV Entertainment's Fright Film Factory label. There
will be both an R-rated and an unrated director's
cut available at major rental and retail chains throughout
the US and Canada.
The
movie has already attained a strong fan following
through festival screenings and received 4 1/2 out
of 5 stars from Film Threat. Starring cult queen
Mary Woronov (ROCK N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL, EATING
RAOUL) as an evil nun, it satirizes drive-in
cinema from women-in-prison films to slasher flicks.
Both DVD versions will include a trailer and the
music video "Halfway to Hell" by
Insecto Circus. Both will be widescreen 1.85:1 and
Dolby Digital 5.1 stereo surround sound. The unrated
cut will include additional features such as an
audio commentary
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track
by writer/director Kenneth J. Hall and producer Ed
Polgardy, deleted scenes, and a making-of documentary
entitled "Gut-Eating Monsters from Hell."
Learn
more...
update: Click here
for fangoria.com's coverage of the DVD release...
update: Click here
for bloody-disgusting.com's coverage... |
(Thanks
to http://www.bv-ent.net/,
http://www.fangoria.com/
and http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)
June 15: MGM Midnite Movies are back
MGM
Home Entertainment have rescheduled the release date
of it's latest series of Midnite Movies to hit shelves
September 20th. The latest round of titles will include
a double feature of Die, Monster, Die/The
Dunwich Horror...
Click
here
for a complete list of titles.
(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/)
June
14: Let Sleeping Gods Lie
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Animation
seems to be perfectly suited to H.P. Lovecraft's indescribable
horrors, so I was very excited when I stumbled across
news of an animated adaptation of "At the
Mountains of Madness". Director/writer, Sven
Bonnichsen filled me in on all the latest news for
this ongoing production...
Titled,
"Let Sleeping Gods Lie", the film
was inspired by "At the Mountains of Madness".
The story concerns a pair of explorers (deep in
the white wastes of Antarctica) who happen upon
an unknown cave system. Inside they discover a sleeping
hive of ancient, alien creatures -- and their doom.
The project is a work of digital animation with
the "elder things" and locations (sets)
being rendered with 3D animation software.
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actors will be added later using a form of rotoscoping.
The style is described as "Neon-Gothic",
which uses hyper-saturated colors. The Scarlet Star
Studios production will have an anticipated running
time of about 15 minutes.
The
two actors (Carl Caputo and Andrew Stout) completed
principle photography in Sven's own home, and he
notes that they were good sports about being filmed
in heavy black winter coats with stockings over
their heads on the hottest day of summer...
Sven's
first film, "Madness from the Sea"
(inspired by "The Call of Cthulhu"),
was shown at the 2002 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.
He hopes to have 'Sleeping Gods' done in
time for the 2006 festival, but may have a teaser-trailer
ready for the 2005 HPLFF.
For
further information and official progress reports,
visit the Scarlet
Star Studios blog.
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(Thanks
to Sven Bonnichsen and Edward Martin III)
June
14: The Fog script review
Click
here
for latinoreview.com's positive script review for the
upcoming remake of The Fog...
(Thanks
to http://www.diabolical-dominion.com/)
June
13: Cool Nameless City update!
Here's
some cool info on the upcoming film, Nameless City...
In
a recent email from director/writer Rob Sibley, he described
the film as "in the vein of Hellboy"
only darker. It has the mythology, action and tone (fantasy
violence with some humor to lighten things up) of Hellboy
with a healthy dose of Lovecraft's creatures! The special
effects will be all latex effects with some CGI to enhance
the color and lighting...
Look
for concept art (both creature and character), behind-the-scenes
pics and official website news coming soon!
(Thanks
to Rob Sibley)
June
13: Lovecraft inspired Asian horror? ~
updated ~
Here's the first ever effects shot
from Memories of Murder director Bong Joonho's
upcoming film, The Host. The film has been described
as Lovecraftian, but whether is was inspired by Lovecraft
or not remains to be seen...
The storyline has something to do
with a mutated monster in the Han River. Effects are being
handled by Peter Jackson's WETA digital.
update:
WETA digital did not (contrary to early reports) work
on The Host, and it seems that the film is nothing
more than a river monster movie with no real Lovecraft
connection...
(Thanks
to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/
and http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/)
June
13: Marebito Review Online
please note:
review contains spoilers
The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival recently announced (see:
June 1st) that it would screen Takashi Shimizu's (Ju-on,
The Grudge) film Marebito (The Stranger
from Afar), and now you can read the first English
language review of it by clicking here.
The
film is set to be released on DVD by Tartan
Video (date to be announced)...
(Thanks
to http://www.twitchfilm.net/)
June
13: Sequel to Mountains of Madness!
please note:
contains spoilers
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In
Bloody-disgusting.com's interview with author Tim
Curran, he describes his upcoming novel Hive
as a modern day sequel to H.P. Lovecraft's "At
the Mountains of Madness"; "Hive
was supposed to be just a short story, a sequel
of sorts to Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains
of Madness”…well, then it became a novella
and finally a full-blown novel. It's set in the
present at an Antarctic research base on the eastern
continental ice sheet. The characters are all modern
people and the science is cutting edge. Basically,
during the long South Pole winter, a field team
discovers the ruins of the Old One's city in a sprawling
subterranean network. They bring back some of the
mummified aliens, too, and soon enough the entire
base is having terrible nightmares and seeing weird
apparitions. Men are found dead with their brains
literally boiled out of their heads. The mummies
are physically dead, but psychically andspiritually
still very active. Dead, but dreaming, and our minds
coming into contact with them reanimate those decayed
minds and they begin to feed off us. That's a good
part of the plot. The secondary plot is that at
the station, a NASA-funded drilling team is cutting
through the ice to a
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subsurface
lake a mile below using cryobot technology (the
very sort of technology NASA wants to use to penetrate
the poles of Mars and the ice sheets of Europa and
Callisto, Jupiter's moons). The lake itself has
been cut-off from the world since glaciation of
the continent 40 million years ago. Not only is
the lake intriguing them, but a magnetic anomaly
at the very bottom. Anyway, what's on the bottom
of the lake and the dead minds of the Old Ones will
come together to harvest/drain the psychic energy
of the human race in order to open a dimensional
gateway to let through not only a horde of Old Ones
but a primal, living chaos that will destroy time
and space as we know it."
The
hardcover (from Elder Signs Press) is already sold
out, and limited copies of the trade paperback are
still available at Shocklines...
Click here
for the full interview.
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(Thanks
to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)
June
13: Mr. Limpet and the Deep
Ones!
Twitchfilm.net ran a contest recently
in which the entrants had
to put together their worst possible Guy Ritchie/Madonna
collaboration. Here is one of the winning entries...
"Madonna
in a remake of The Incredible Mr. Limpet - however, it's
not a straight remake of the film; it turns out
Madonna becomes a Deep One as the film makes an excursion
into Lovecraft territory. For some reason, this
is also a non-animated musical comedy. Don Knotts plays
Cthulhu."
(Thanks
to http://www.twitchfilm.net/)
June
12: The H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival needs submissions!
For
Immediate Release:
The
H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival needs submissions for the
2005 year. Especially hurting is the lack of shorts based
by or inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft and or
addressing themes of cosmic horror as specified on the
website.
http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/
The
entry fee is only ten bucks, which is a lot cheaper than
most film festivals out there.
Current
guests include Patti Smith, Christopher Heyerdahl, Stuart
Gordon, and Joseph Dougherty.
(Thanks
to Edward Martin III)
June
10: Are you afraid of spiders?
Sota's third Now Playing
mini-bust is based on John Bottins incredible Spider-Head
Thing from John
Carpenter's The Thing. Approximately 4" tall
and 7" wide, the resin figure comes on a black base,
and will run around $45.00.
The Thing Spider-Head statue will be released in the Fall
of 2005...
Visit Sota's official website here.
(Thanks
to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/)
June 10: More Von Sholly coolness!
Here's
the latest Horrora Model box design created by
artist Pete Von Sholly! You can view other Horrora
box art here, or
purchase completed boxes through the shop
of unspeakable things...
Visit VONSHOLLYWOOD here.
(Thanks
to Pete Von Sholly)
June
10: The Unquiet Void Lovecraft trilogy
According to the official
website, production has begun on the follow-up release
to The Unquiet Void's Poisoned Dreams CD.
The second CD in the H.P. Lovecraft trilogy will be called
The Shadow-Haunted Outside, and will explore the
vast unknown during the reawakening of the "outer
gods" of both H.P. Lovecraft as well as from
authors who continue the mythos in his absence while strictly
adhering to Lovecraft's vision of human annihilation...
Click the above link for track listings, reviews and purchase
information.
(Thanks
to Eric Morgret)
June 10: Masters of Horror
find a home
The
Masters of Horror anthology series now has an official
website. The site will contain bios, news, trailers and
more...
Check
it out here.
(Thanks
to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/)
...I've
updated the Lovecraft
Bestiary...
June
8: A Lovecraftian Summer?
Mike
Shkolnik (The Strange Case of HP Lovecraft) is
currently crewing up for several summer film shoots that
just might include a Lovecraft related project. The list
of potential projects include (of which two will be chosen):
Broccoli
Man 2: Meat the Cleaver (it's vegetarians vs.
meat packers in a psuedo West Side Story spoof)
Half Life Crisis (mocumentary about old folks who
play video games)
The Fax Film Festival (faux commercial, spoof of
the faux film festival)
Strange Case of HP Lovecraft sequel (to be named
- the killer attache case is back!)
The Caul of BrocCthulhu (spoof of Lovecraft story)
Haunter of the Dark (based on Lovecraft story)
Interested
individuals should contact Mike through his Mad
Martian website.
(Thanks
to Mike Shkolnik)
June
8: Guerrilla Productions is looking for you!
Edward
Martin is currently seeking a special digital effects
person for small half-second effects shots on his film
Flesh of my Flesh. The feature length zombie film
(featuring a character based on Herbert West) is currently
in post-production...
He
is also on the lookout for a few actors and a filmmaking
crew for his upcoming Lovecraftian short film "The
Summoning" (not to be confused with Rick
Tillman's film The
Summoning).
You
can contact Edward through the official Flesh
of my Flesh website.
(Thanks
to Edward Martin III)
...cool
website of the week: Elder
Avenue...
June 7: Cthulhu in Sweden - MiskatoniCON!
Sean
Branney sends word of a brand new Lovecraft convention
to be held in Scandinavia! MiskatoniCon is a convention
in appreciation of horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft,
the first of its kind ever to be held in Scandinavia.
Open your mind to brand new realities on Halloween 2005,
November 4-6, in Stockholm, Sweden.
During three action-packed days you will be offered a
chance to partake in wonders such as Teater Tentakel's
grand World Premiere of the musical parody A Shoggoth
on the Roof, the most comprehensive screening of Lovecraftian
movies in European history (see below), an exclusive Cthulhu
Lives live-action roleplaying game, lectures, games and
tournaments, art exhibits and more...
The following films have already been accepted:
Feature films:
Beyond the Wall of Sleep by Barrett J. Leigh and Thom
Maurer, Cool Air by Bryan Moore, Out of Mind
by Raymond Saint-Jean, Re-Animator by Stuart
Gordon, Rough Magick by Jamie Payne, Strange
Aeons by Eric Morgret, The Call of Cthulhu
by Andrew Leman, The Yellow Sign by Aaron Vanek
Short
films:
An Imperfect Solution by Christian Matzke, A
Shoggoth on the Roof: the Documentary by Sean
Branney & Andrew Leman, Music of Erich Zann
by John Strysik, Nyarlathotep by Christian Matzke,
Read me a story... by Bret Mix & Craig Mullins,
The Hapless Antiquarian by Anthony Penta, The
Hound by Anthony Reed, The Other Gods by Peter
Rhodes, The Terrible Old Man by Bob Fugger
Do you have a Lovecraft-inspired film? MiskatoniCon is
the perfect place to have it screened.
General
guidelines: Inspired in one way or another by H. P. Lovecraft
or his immediate successors (Derleth, Chambers, Bloch,
Campbell etc). No limitations as to style, length or language,
but if it is not in English or Swedish we'd like a translation
to either English or Swedish included.
Format:
DVD only - Fee/payment: None - Submission deadline: October
15
Click
here
for more!
(Thanks to Sean Branney)
...I've
updated the Lovecraft
Filmography...
June 4: An Evil Vision is coming
Writer/producer
Gilberto Villarroel (Kaos
Producciones) recently confirmed that he has completed
a script based on "The Colour Out of Space".
The project is called "Wedangutun: Visión
Maligna", and is currently in the hands of Spanish
producers. Wedangutun is an indian word that means "Evil
Vision"...
Villarroel
has also written a TV show containing 8 stories based
on Poe, Lovecraft (including "Wedangutun")
and R.L. Stevenson, and is awaiting the results of a national
TV contest (in August) to see if it can be produced. If
the project becomes a reality, they would all be shot
using young directors...
All
8 episodes are based on the adventures of characters from
"Chilean Gothic" (Villarroel's adaptation
of "Pickman's Model"), and will star
Bruno Mattotti...
More
as it becomes available!
(Thanks
to Gilberto Villarroel)
June
4: 2005 - Blue November MicroFilmFest STAGE III
Festival
director Captain Chambers has confirmed November 4th and
5th for the upcoming Blue November MicroFilmFest. The
entire day has been blocked for each date, so they will
have more flexibility available than last year in scheduling.
The festival will again combine the art of cinema with
the beautiful and ever changing circle of art and expression...
OFFICIAL
ENTRY FORM
Blue
November MicroFilmFest STAGE III
November 4th & 5th, 2005 at the OSU-Tulsa Auditorium
700 North Greenwood Tulsa, OK
ABOUT
THE FESTIVAL
The
Blue November MicroFilmFest was designed for the true
filmmaker and the art of film. This festival focuses on
the people behind the creation of film, music, words and
art in all forms. The event is FREE to everyone.
GUIDELINES
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All entries should be presented in either VHS or DVD format.
·
Due to the large volume of entries, the films will not
be returned.
·
All entries should represent the original work of the
artist.
·
This form should be completed and sent with each individual
entry.
·
Any promotional materials should be sent with the entry.
This is strongly encouraged!
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Please contact Blue November Creations if you will be
in attendance.
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All genres accepted. Entry is FREE! Deadline is September
15th, 2005.
Additional
information (including a submission form) can be found
by visiting the Blue
November website, or by contacting Captain Chambers
here.
(Thanks
to Captain Chambers)
June
4: Eerie Horror Film Festival Call for Entries!
The
2005 Eerie Horror Film Festival has officially opened
its call for entries, accepting submissions from around
the world for independently produced feature length and
short horror and science fiction films.
The
2005 Eerie Horror Film Festival will be held October 5-9,
in Erie, Pennsylvania at the Roadhouse Theater.
The early submission deadline is January 1, 2005 and the
final deadline is August 6, 2005.
Submission
categories for the 2005 Eerie Horror Film Festival will
include Horror Feature; Horror Short; Slasher Short; Slasher
Feature; Horror Experimental; Thriller/Suspense Short;
Thriller/Suspense Feature; Sci-Fi Feature; Sci-Fi Short;
Sci-Fi Action; Sci-Fi Fantasy; Psychological Horror Feature;
Psychological Horror Short; Animated Horror Feature; Animated
Horror Short. We will make special exceptions for films
that can not be placed in the above mentioned categories
(documentaries, comedies, etc). Complete rules, fees,
deadlines and entry forms can be found on our website:
http://www.eeriehorrorfest.com
(Thanks
to Greg)
June
3: Re-Penetrator DVD coming soon ~
updated ~
please note:
the following website contains adult material
Re-Penetrator,
the controversial adult horror
spoof is now available on DVD. Click here
to pre-order (supplies are limited)...
The
disc contains the following features: Director's Cut,
Screening Cut, Audio Commentary featuring Joanna Angel
and Tommy Pistol, Audio Commentary featuring Director
Doug Sakmann and DP Pat Homily, Behind The Scenes Featurette,
Original Trailers and Bonus Trailers. Cost is $20.00...
Check out Bob Brinkman's review here.
update: Click
here
for fangoria.com's coverage of the DVD release...
(Thanks
to Bob Brinkman and Joanna Angel)
June 3: New Lemora review
Click
here
to read the latest review of Synapse's SE Lemora:
A Child's Tale of the Supernatural DVD (courtesy
of bloody-disgusting.com)...
(Thanks
to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)
June
3: Cthulhu delayed again...
Call
of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth has been
delayed yet again. Take Two announced today that the game
will not be released (on Playstation 2, Xbox, and PC)
until sometime between August and October of this year...
Amazon.com
lists the street date as September 15th...
(Thanks
to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/)
June
2: Witch House cast announced!
Fangoria.com reports that Stuart
(Re-Animator) Gordon's adaptation of "The
Dreams in the WitchHouse" has been cast! According
to the report, Jeffrey Combs will play Mazurewicz (The
hero’s bizarre neighbor) and Ezra Godden (Dagon)
will play the film’s protagonist (the obsessed student
Walter Gilman) in Gordon's Masters of Horror segment...
Gordon
also told fangoria, "THE DREAMS IN THE WITCH-HOUSE
has always been one of my favorite Lovecraft stories.
The image of a witch showing up in your bedroom in the
middle of the night and dragging you out of bed and forcing
you to murder babies is a nightmare that’s hard to
get out of your head. And while most witches have black
cats for their familiars, Keziah Mason’s is Lovecraft’s
most memorable monster: Brown Jenkin, the rat with a human
face. Besides Jeff and Ezra, I’ve got some babies
and rats to cast."
Fangoria
notes that this is the second time Combs has starred in
a adaptation of WitchHouse, referring to an unreleased
segment of the Charles Band Pulsepounders anthology
called "The Evil Clergyman" (which lifted
Witch's storyline and co-starred David Gale as
the rat thing).
(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/)
June 1: The 12th H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival CALL FOR
ENTRIES ~ updated ~
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For
Immediate Release:
Lurker
Films Presents
The 12th H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival
October 7-8-9, 2005
Hollywood Theatre, Portland Oregon
CALL
FOR ENTRIES, EARLY DEADLINE AUGUST 1, 2005
Portland's
own unique film festival dedicated to promoting
the works of H. P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales, and the
themes of Cosmic Horror is once again calling for
artwork and film submission. Filmmakers and artists
who are up to the challenge of Naming the Unnameable,
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the Unseeable, Speaking the Unspeakable, and otherwise
drawing the feeble mind of Man closer to an understanding
of the Unknowable Horrors of the Cosmos should go
to http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/submissions.htm
and download the entry form before it is too late. |
This
year's film jury is comprised of such diverse people as:
singer/poet Patti Smith (Horses, Trampin',
Easter), director Stuart Gordon (Re-animator,
From Beyond, Dagon, Honey I Shrunk the
Kids), actor Christopher Heyerdahl (Blade:Trinity,
"Kingdom Hospital", Chronicles of
Riddick), and screenwriter Joseph Dougherty ("thirtysomething",
"Judging Amy", Cast a Deadly Spell)
The
festival will also showcase selected feature films such
as Marebito,
and Cast
a Deadly Spell, short films from around the world,
and lively discussion panels with horror literature experts
S. T. Joshi and Scott Conners.
For
more information please see our website:
http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/
update: Click here
for fangoria.com's coverage...
(Thanks
to Andrew Migliore)
June 1: LovecraCked! is still
looking for shorts!
Hey
there folks!
30
days left to send in those short Lovecraftian flicks!
Over
the last 5 months this project has become an international
effort, with filmmakers from the US, Canada, UK and Europe
submitting their films. Needless to say we're very excited
by all the great submissions and responses!
I
know some of you are still hard at work on your entries
and I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what you
come up with! Please keep me informed as to your progress
when you can. If you're running a bit behind and you're
concerned that you won't make our June 30th deadline just
send me a quick email to let me know where you're at in
production and I'll see what we can do.
The
rest of you folks who still haven't sent in your films...
the sooner you can have your entries in the better :)
So get to the post office as soon as you can and drop
me a quick email to let me know once you've shipped anything
out. Thanks. Looking forward to seeing your films!
For
those of you who's entries we've already received, thank
you and we'll talk to you all soon!
Also,
check out Edgar Allen Lovecraft's online magazine, The
Dunwhich Herald (http://home.comcast.net/~esox99/)
for some great Lovecraftian satire and some smokin' hot
cover art ;)
That's
it for the site pimpin' for now ;-)
Stay
in touch & stay independent! And remember... there's
a tingler inside all of us so don't forget to scream when
you're scared ;)
Take
care,
Elias
BiFF
JUGGERNAUT Productions
http://www.biffjuggernaut.com
Independent
Cinema Lives! It Lives!!!
(Thanks
to Elias)
June 1: Doorstep and Cool
Air in Italian!
Horrormagazine.it
continue to do a fine job of covering the Lovecraft film
scene with articles on Strange
Aeons and Cool
Air. They also covered The H.P. Lovecraft Historical
Society's upcoming adaptation of The
Call of Cthulhu recently...
(Thanks
to http://www.horrormagazine.it/)
June
1: New Mortuary flash game
The
official website for Tobe Hooper's Mortuary has
been updated again. This time the site has been given
it's own flash animated game!
Check
it out here.
(Thanks
to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/)
June
1: New Evil Dead 2 DVD
According
to Dread Central, Anchor Bay is releasing yet another
version of Sam Raimi’s classic Evil Dead 2.
It will be packaged in it's own Book of the Dead
just like the original Evil Dead was (designed
by Tom Sullivan). The DVD will also feature a bulging
eye that scream when pressed...
No
street date or special features have been announced.
(Thanks
to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/)
June
1: Another Fog interview
Click
here
for Dread Central's interview with the cast of the upcoming
Fog remake...
(Thanks
to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/)
June
1: Tarantino & Rodriguez team up for Grind House
This
is worth noting because Quentin Tarantino has expressed
interest in making a Mythos based film in the past...
Reallyscary.com
reports that Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez are
teaming up to make a new horror film for Bob and Harvey
Weinstein. They will each write and direct a 60-minute
horror film under the title Grind House. It also
will include its own trailers, bonus materials and added
extras (directed by other filmmakers) that will be packaged
between the two segments. It is expected to be the first
in a series of films, is planned for a spring 2006 release...
(Thanks
to http://www.reallyscary.com/)
June
1: Aquanoids review
Click
here
to read Dread Central's review of the Creature from
the Black Lagoon inspired film, Aquanoids...
(Thanks
to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/)
...cool
website of the week: L'Armata
delle Tenebre (Army of Darkness)...
June
1: New H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival contest!
A reminder...
For Immediate Release:
The
H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, in conjunction with
Newgrounds.com,
announces its first amateur flash contest.
Ever watched a Lovecraftian short and thought, "I
could do that?" Well here is your chance to prove
it. The H.P. Lovecraft film festival announces its first
ever, flash animation contest. Entries should fall into
one of the two following categories.
1) Festival Openers - Short, Lovecraft-themed animations
that feature the Film Festival logo.
2) Original Animations - H. P. Lovecraft-themed animations
of any length.
Judging will be done by festival staff and winning entries
will be shown at the festival (Oct. 7-9). In addition
to seeing your flash on the big screen there are the following
prizes.
1st prize - A DVD from the H.P. Lovecraft collection +
a festival T-shirt
2nd prize - Re-animator CD + festival T-shirt
3rd prize - Festival T-shirt
All three prize winners, as well as any runners up will
have their film shown on the big screen at the festival
AND will receive a copy of the festival program listing
their film. Deadline for entries is July 1st, which will
allow time for judging prior to final selection of films
for the festival.
Entries should be made by submitting content to the Newgrounds.com
flash portal. The titles of the films should begin
with "HPLF", which will designate them as a
contest entry.
More info on the festival itself may be found at http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/submissions.htm
(Thanks to Bob Brinkman)
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