June
25: Animated Hellboy revealed
Fangoria.com reports that the animated follow-up
to Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy
will premiere on Cartoon Network in October.
The film, titled Hellboy: Sword of
Storms, revolves around "a university
professor who opens a forbidden scroll and becomes
possessed by the twin demons of Thunder and
Lightning, who seek to return to our world to
wake their brothers, the dragons. Hellboy, researcher
Kate Corrigan and Russell Thorne, an albino
psychic, travel to Japan to investigate. Hellboy
finds the Sword of Storms, which transports
him to a world of Japanese folklore. He learns
that the sword not only defeated the demons
but is also the key to returning them to Earth.
The possessed professor sends several creatures
of Japanese myth to retrieve or destroy the
sword. Meanwhile, intense thunderstorms are
spreading over the planet and huge monsters
are waking all over the world. Suspecting that
it’s all connected to the events in Japan,
Liz Sherman and Abe Sapien rush to join Kate
and Russell. Their plane is hit by lightning
and crashes into the sea, and they have to face
a giant creature of their own. They learn that
if the dragons completely awake, it will be
an end to Man’s dominion of the Earth.
In the world of folklore, Hellboy is tricked
into breaking the sword, which brings him and
the two demons back into our world."
Guillermo
and comics creator Mike Mignola served as
executive producers and Ron Perlman and Selma
Blair reprise their roles of Hellboy and Liz
Sherman...
(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/)
June 23: Enter the world of Slumber
A tribute to the works
of H.P. Lovecraft, Tom Sales short film Slumber
currently exists in a 24-minute version that
screened at The Faversham in Leeds, England.
Presently, the film is being edited down into
the 15/18-minute range before it is entered
into any further film festivals...
You
can find more images (and behind-the-scenes
stills) by visiting slumberthemovie
on MySpace. Look for a synopsis and more,
coming soon to Unfilmable.com...
(Thanks
to Tom Sales)
June 23: Experiment 17 online!
The
fine folks over at yog-sothoth.com are hosting
Crawling Chaos Pictures documentary short, Experiment
17...
You can view it by clicking here!
(Thanks
to Crawling
Chaos Pictures)
The
Unfilmable.com forum is back,
courtesy of Shoggoth.net!
Check it out here!
June 21: Exclusive: Dunwich behind-the-scenes
images!
Here's
an exclusive look and Christian Matzke's upcoming
short film, Dunwich! 28 hrs of filming
took place over two days (this past weekend),
with more scenes scheduled for this weekend
(including driving shots and night scenes)...
Look
for more photos on the official
site soon!
(Thanks
to Christian Matzke)
June 21: LovecraCked! premier announced!
For Immediate Release:
The world premiere of
LovecraCked! The Movie will be
held in New York City at the Two Boots Pioneer
Theatre at 7 pm on July 24th. Advance
tickets for the screening are now available
for sale online and via telephone, but seating
is limited to 100 individuals, so purchase your
tickets early!
If
the screening sells out by next week, a second
night will be added.
Here
are the details:
When:
Monday
July 24, 2006
at 7:00 pm
Where:
Two Boots Pioneer Theater
155 East 3rd Street (between Avenues A &
B)
New York, NY 10009
www.twoboots.com/pioneer
Ticket
prices are $9 regular admission and $6.50
for students with a valid proof of school
ID.
To
purchase tickets online go to: http://www.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=62549
To
purchase tickets by phone call: (800) 595-4849
Elias
and some of the cast/crew will be there beforehand
to give away free stuff (while supplies last),
so be there early!
(Thanks
to Elias)
June 21: Hunter's Moon casting
call ~ updated ~
Click here
for directions to the Curse of the Hunter's
Moon cast audition location (the Sangre
De Cristo Arts & Conference Center)...
(Thanks to Catharine Post)
June 15: Welcome to Dunwich
For Immediate Release:
"Well if those freaks are in Dunwich
I'd wager they're headin' for Whateley's farm.
If, like you say, they stick together."
- Mamie Bishop, "Dunwich"
Crawling
Chaos Pictures in association with Page Street
Studios presents "Dunwich",
inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's tales "The
Dunwich Horror" and "The
Terrible Old Man" adapted, produced
and directed by Sarah Tarling and Christian
Matzke. The short film will be shot entirely
in the great state of Maine in glorious colour.
The
official website for the film can be found
here.
Principal
photography begins June 18th, with a projected
release of September 2006. Please check the
website for updates as filming continues over
the next two weeks.
(Thanks
to Christian Matzke)
June 15: What lurks inside the Closet Space?
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Five
Miskatonic University graduate students
on a search for their missing professor
stumble onto a discovery so terrifying
and unnatural that the human mind can
barely comprehend it. The laws of nature
and physics are merely the first layers
to be peeled back and discarded as the
group continues their inexhaustible search
for their mentor....which leads them deep
inside the Closet Space. But...there are
things that live inside the vast emptiness.
Horrible, hungry things.
Will
the professor be found alive?
Will
the group get out alive?
Currently lensing in Texas, Closet
Space is the latest feature from
director Mel House (Fade To Black,
Witchcraft 13: Blood Of The
Chosen). The script (horror with
a hint of science fiction and some Lovecraftian
overtones) was written by Jason Stewart,
and the cast includes Melanie Donihoo,
James LaMarr, Evan Scott, Peyton Wetzel,
Jovan Jackson, Morgan McCarthy, and
Tim Wrobel. Marcus
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Koch (Ghost Lake, Nikos The
Impaler) is handling the special makeup
effects, with Odyssee Visual FX (Necrophobia)
in charge of visual effects...
Mel promises screen grabs (from this weekends
shoot), and a trailer soon. You can visit
the official website here,
or check out the film on MySpace... |
(Thanks to Mel House)
June 15: Hunter's Moon casting
call update
Curse of the Hunter's
Moon auditions will be held Sunday June
25th from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm at the Sangre De
Cristo Arts & Conference Center in Pueblo,
CO. Directions can be found on the official
website...
(Thanks to Catharine Post)
June 14: Huge H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and
Lurker Films update!
Here are all the latest
goings on for Lurker
Films and the H.P.
Lovecraft Film Festival...
According to festival founder Andrew
Migliore, Ramsey
Campbell will be the Literary Guest of Honor
for the 2006 fest, and joining him will be editor
Robert Price who will be performing his legendary
Cthulhu Prayer breakfast on Sunday. Director
Guillermo del Toro is still tentative but Andrew
hopes he will be attending as well. Director
Jay Woelfel is confirmed, and he will be present
to screen one of his first films, the 80's Lovecraft
inspired classic, Beyond Dream's Door.
Already looking towards the 2007 festival, Andrew
has author Peter Straub and artist Bernie Wrightson
confirmed to appear...
Andrew
also passed along the final DVD
cover art for Lurker Films upcoming
releases, The H.P. Lovecraft
Collection Volume 4 (featuring
several versions of Pickman's
Model) and The Weird Tale
Collection (featuring Aaron
Vanek's The Yellow Sign)...
Lurker Films recently returned
from a successful appearance at
the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors
Convention (in Burbank, CA). Andrew
told Unfilmable.com that he and
helper Warren Banks (guitarist
for The Darkest of the Hillside
Thickets) were visited by artist
Bernie Wrightson, Re-Animator
director Stuart Gordon and star
Barbara Crampton, Hans Rodionoff
(author of the Vertigo Comic Lovecraft),
Beyond Dream's Door
director Jay Woelfel, Full Moon's
Charles Band and Lurking Fear
director Courtney Joyner (amongst
others).
He added that there was a lot
of buzz about the H.P. Lovecraft
Film Festival and The H.P. Lovecraft
Historical Society's The Call
of Cthulhu. As the pictures
below show, even Cthulhu stopped
by for visit! |
Lurker Films founder Andrew
Migliore visits the Witch House...
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...and
narrowly escapes being eaten
by the great Cthulhu!
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Andrew
and Warren Banks
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Andrew
and Aaron Vanek
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(Thanks
to Andrew Migliore)
June 14: Strange Aeons trailer on You
Tube!
The trailer for Maelstrom Productions feature
length adaptation of The Thing on the Doorstep
is now on You Tube!
Check it out here!
(Thanks to Eric Morgret)
June 14: New Jay Woelfel
site online!
The new official site for Beyond Dream's
Door director Jay Woelfel is now online!
The site contains film info, photos, scripts
and a short story as well...
Check it out here!
(Thanks to Jay Woelfel)
June 14: Combs confirmed!
Stuart
Gordon confirmed (in a Sci Fi Wire interview)
that Jeffrey Combs will indeed play the role
of Edgar Allan Poe in his Masters of Horror
adaptation of The Black Cat!
Click
here
for the Sci Fi Wire interview...
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
June
14: Equinox DVD reviews
Several
reviews have appeared online for the Criterion
Collection release of the cult classic film
Equinox. Fangoria.com reviews it here,
and DVD Drive-In reviews it here...
(Thanks
to Dan Ross and http://www.fangoria.com/)
...sorry
for the lack of updates recently. Look for H.P.
Lovecraft Film Festival and Lurker
Films news, as well as, coverage of two
new films (Closet Space and Slumber)
later today...
June 14: Possible House of Re-Animator
poster?
Creature-corner.com
has post what could be the new teaser poster
for Stuart Gordon's House of Re-Animator!
The film will reunite the three principal cast
members from the original film (Jeffrey Combs,
Bruce Abbott and Barbara Crampton).
Creature-corner reports that the poster might
very well be fan art...
(Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/)
June 14: Another Call of Cthulhu screening
tonight!
Case
Western Reserve University (in Cleveland,
Ohio) will screen The Call of Cthulhu
tonight at 7 pm!
Click here
for the Cleveland Free Times review of
CoC...
(Thanks
to Ember Days and Robert Cappelletto)
June 7: Call of Cthulhu screening tonight! |
The
H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's silent adaptation
of The Call of Cthulhu screens tonight (at
7 pm) at Case
Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio!
(Thanks to Ember Days)
June 7: Hunter's Moon casting call!
The
producers of Curse of the Hunter's Moon
have put out a casting call and will be accepting
resumes until June 24th. Auditions will be held
on Sunday June 25th...
Click
here
for more info. You can also check out fangoria.com's
latest coverage of the film by clicking here...
(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/)
June
5: Wall of Sleep streets tomorrow!
Lionsgate will release Barret
J. Klausman and Thom Mauer's Beyond
the Wall of Sleep on DVD tomorrow...
Be
sure to check it out!
(Thanks to Dread
Central)
June 4: From Beyond promo!
The director's cut of Stuart
Gordon's From Beyond hits the small screen
on June 10th, and if you click here,
you'll see the promo clip currently airing on Monsters
HD...
(Thanks to Dread
Central)
June 4: New Music of Erich Zann gallery!
Unfilmable.com
presents fourteen character portraits and behind-the-scenes
stills from Christopher Martson's The Music of
Erich Zann!
Check them out here!
(Thanks to Christopher Martson)
June 2: House of Black
Wings announced!
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The
fine folks over at Sword & Cloak Productions
(makers of The Lovecraft Syndrome)
have begun pre-production on their second
feature-length movie. The film is called House
of Black Wings and it's described as a
"character-driven Lovecraftian ghost
story. It is a nightmare of urban paranoia,
loss of identity, and the blurred line between
creativity and madness."
The
script was written by David Schmidt (who will
also direct), and production is set to begin
in September of 2006. Sword & Cloak Productions
are currently seeking crew and a casting call
is forthcoming. Details can be found by visiting
the official
website...
About the film: After a tragic act of violence
cuts short her music career, Kate Stone is
returning to a city full of ex-fans and ex-friends.
Taking shelter with her last friend, a struggling
artist named Robyn Huck, the two women work
to restore the aging courtyard apartment building
Robyn has inherited. But a terrible secret
infests the venerable structure, and soon
Kate will be haunted by horrific dreams, sinister
apparitions, and the sounds of something moving
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the walls. She will be dragged into a confrontation
not only with her own dark past, but the unspeakable
nightmare that lurks beyond the walls! |
(Thanks
to David Schmidt)
...this weekend, Unfilmable.com will
present more than a dozen character portraits and
behind-the-scenes stills from Christopher
Martson's The Music of Erich Zann! Be sure
to check back for this exclusive image gallery (please
note: some of these images appear on the
official Bloodroot
Films site)...
June 1: Exclusive Kammaren images!
Writer/director Robert P.
Olsson sends word that the Kammaren shoot
went well and that the film has now entered post-production!
He has also provided Unfilmable.com
with an exclusive first look at the film (based
on The Statement of Randolph Carter)...
Robert
P. Olsson,
Herbert Vest and Dr Love Halvén
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Jens
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Herbert
Vest, Dr Love Halvén and Sonja Hammar |
About
the film: Tore Forsman is an old man, most people
would even call him strange or mad. He lives in
an old house on the country side, and all his life
he has kept something locked and sealed under his
house. When he
dies suddenly, a relative,
Adam, makes the trip to late Tores cabin. Adam has
two friends with him, Björn and Jens. The spirit
of Tore is somewhere to be found but that's a good
thing, 'cause something is still waiting.
(Thanks to Robert P. Olsson)
June 1: Zann plays again!
Copyright
Christopher Marston/Gina Andreoli 2006
A new independent film company called Bloodroot
Films recently completed work on an adaptation of
The Music of Erich Zann. The short film has
already screened at Temple University's Diamond
Film Festival where it won the Temple U. rough-cut
award, the Best Undergraduate Film Award and the
Audience Choice Award…
Directed
and co-produced (along with Gina Andreoli) by Christopher
Martson, the film stars Edward Keith Baker (as Erich
Zann), Righteous Jolly (as Howard), Robert Gerenser
(as Blandot), Antonio Addeo, Steve Vander Meulen
and Stan Jacobs…
You
can view the trailer and additional cast and crew
information by clicking here.
(Thanks
to Chris Martson and Gina Andreoli)
June
1: Curse of the Hunter's Moon ~
updated ~
The cult classic Curse
of the Blue Lights is getting the remake treatment
courtesy of Bloody Rose Productions (a company started
by Doug and Catharine Post). The original, made
in 1988 by John Henry Johnson, is about "ghouls
and zombies that feed human flesh to a long dormant,
half buried mythical creature in an attempt to bring
him back to eternal life...and a group of captured
teens who must fight to survive this ancient curse
before it's too late for them and the rest of the
world"...
The remake, titled Curse of the Hunter's
Moon, will be filmed in the same area as the
original (Pueblo, Colorado) and revolves around
"a group of high-school students who, despite
a wave of recent disappearances, decide to throw
an early Halloween party on the night of the Hunter's
Moon. They are unaware, however, that Krul, one
of the last ghouls, is planning to bring the Queen
of the Ghouls back to life-but he needs bloody sacrifices
to do so, and has a dead army to help him get them"...
While
the original film contained a few Lovecraftian references,
the remake looks to be increasing the Lovecraft
connection. So much so in fact, the producers are
currently holding a contest for ghoul and zombie
designs that should "be original and based
on the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft"...
The
film will be written, directed and produced by Catharine
Post with a production start date set for August
(auditions will be held in mid-June). They hope
to have the film ready for the festival circuit
in 2007...
The
official
site contains cast and crew applications, a
message
board, contest info and current news about the
production...
More
as it becomes available!
(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/
and Catharine Post)
June
1: Lurker Films upcoming slate!
For Immediate Release:
Lurker
Films expects to have a mid-summer release of
two DVDs. The first is the long awaited Volume 4
of the H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Pickman's
Model (featuring Chilean Gothic, Cathy
Welch's Pickman's Model, Giovanni
Furore's Pickman's Model, and Geoffrey
Clark's In the Vault in addition to all the
usual goodies). The second DVD is Volume 1 of The
Weird Tale Collection: The Yellow Sign
(by Aaron Vanek, along with a documentary on Chambers,
the amazing short film Tupilak, The King
in Yellow, and Purgatory. Contents are
subject to change.
(Thanks to Andrew Migliore)
June 1: Hooper directs
The Damned Thing
Along with the previously mentioned Poe adaptation,
The Black Cat by Stuart Gordon, director
Tobe Hooper (Mortuary) will adapt The
Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce. Written for
the screen by Richard Christian Matheson, the story
is an apocalyptic tale of a monstrous force that
devastates Sheriff Kevin Reddle's family and his
small Texas town. Sean Patrick Flanery, Marisa Coughlan
and Ted Raimi are set to star.
Author Ambrose Bierce was a favorite of H.P. Lovecraft...
(Thanks to Dread
Central)
...the story links are back online thanks to dagonbytes.com...
recent
headlines...
May 26: First Binding Silence images!
May 24: New Mortuary review...
May 23: Dare you gaze upon The Other Gods!
May 23: New Cthulhu screening in Providence!
May 23: Host teaser online
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