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~ Creature-corner.com has a review up for Ash's new video game adventure. Click here to check it out. (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) May 30: Lovecraft double feature on SCI FI See the SCI FI Premiere
of Necronomicon: Book of the Dead, followed by Dagon.
Check local listings for the channel in your area. (Thanks to taylor) May
30: Brain Damage's "The Shunned House"! Yesterday I purchased a lot of 5 Indy horror movies/films on eBay. One of the films included in this lot was SHADOWS IN FOG, which is described as (Lovecraft inspired, 13 minutes). No other information is given. If anyone has heard of this (or has any information about it), I would be interested in hearing it. Is it really based on Lovecraft? If so, what story? When was it originally released, and by whom? I should receive the film within a week or so, and will do a write-up of it when I do. Information can be sent to me here! May 29: The Unnamable update Sascha Renninger sent along this "Unnamable" update! ~I just finished editing the second cut of the movie. But we still have to shoot some more footage. Soon there will be a second trailer featured on the website.~ Keep an eye on the official website here. (Thanks to Sascha Renninger) May 29: Nocturna: Inspired by Lovecraft? Click here to read about a new Filmax (Dagon) project called "Nocturna". As pointed out by shonokin (on the alt.horror.cthulhu group), it sounds reminiscent of Lovecraft's Dreamlands stories. (Thanks to shonokin) May 28: Purchase "The Shunned House" from xploitedcinema.com! ~update~ Here's another online store where you can purchase "The Shunned House" on DVD. Click here for details. Note: This DVD is a Region
0 PAL DVD. (Thanks to Ivan Zuccon) May 27: La-La Land preps CREEPSHOW CD release FANGORIA caught up with La-La Land Records president Michael Gerhard this past weekend at Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors in Burbank, where La-La Land was debuting its brand new disc of Richard Band's FROM BEYOND score. Gerhard filled us in on the next big horror release from La-La Land hitting next month—the score to CREEPSHOW, composed by John Harrison. "CREEPSHOW will be out in late June and will feature the original LP tracks, as well as music from the TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE TV show," Gerhard enthused. "It's a single disc and as an added bonus, on it will be an unproduced George Romero/John Harrison film score—based upon the opera TALES OF HOFFMAN. John Harrison recorded an eight-and-a-half-minute overture of the theme for the movie to help sell it. It was supposed to be done after DAY OF THE DEAD, but financing fell through. We're going to have exclusive liner notes regarding the preproduction on the movie as well as notes from Romero, possibly Stephen King and Harrison." The CREEPSHOW disc will hit on June 17th as a limited edition. If you pre-order the disc from their website early (found here), you can get a copy of the disc autographed by Harrison himself. In similarly horrific news, Gerhard told Fango that despite his company having issued such horror releases as Richard Band's RE-ANIMATOR, Elia Cmiral's THEY and Christopher Lennertz's SAINT SINNER scores, Jeff Danna's Celtic music for the never-released-Stateside Minnie Driver weeper UNCORKED is still La-La Land's top-selling release. We blame Rufus Sewell's huge on-line fanbase. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) May 27: Purchase "The Shunned House" on Region 2 DVD Want to purchase "The Shunned House" before it's US release? Diabolikdvd.com has Region 2 DVD's for sale! Click here for details. Note: This DVD is PAL Region 2. (Thanks to http://www.diabolikdvd.com/) May 27: Details on 'Alien's' Re-release in Theaters Ridley Scott's very Lovecraftian film, "Alien", will be rereleased in theaters this Halloween. According to Bloody-Disgusting.com and Film Jerk: ~Film Jerk writes, "The announcement last month that Fox would be rereleasing Ridley Scott's 1979 classic Alien into theaters on Halloween was met with wild enthusiasm by fans of the movie, with the most often asked question being, "Will the film include any restored scenes?" "FilmJerk.com has learned, through contacts within Fox Films, that the film will be getting most, if not all, of the cut footage restored back into the narrative. Final details are still being worked out, but our source tells us the film's soundtrack will also be remastered to take advantage of today's digital cinema sound formats, and will be positioned as a major fall release, to play on over 2,000 screens." "Our source also tells us that, should this rerelease become successful, like the Star Wars trilogy and Exorcist rereleases, tentative plans have already been set to release James Cameron's restored cut of Aliens into theatres next spring."~ (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) May 27: Anchor Bay Chat Highlights EVIL DEAD... Well first of all they aren't releasing WITHIN THE WOODS (in reference to the UK Box Set), that is definitely not going to happen. And unfortunately while they are able to release a box set there, we can't do the same here. Not that we really need to release another EVIL DEAD DVD at this point... (thanks to Brad Vautrinot) (Thanks to http://www.gorezone.net/) May 26: "Unknown Beyond" Region 1 DVD cover! Steve Lustgarten sent
along the following image of the "Unknown Beyond" DVD
cover! Similar to the poster art, but why mess with a good thing! (Thanks to Steve Lustgarten) May 26: [Dream-Quest] Heading into summer! May 25, 2003 update Greetings, Dreamers! This is your irregular
report on the state of our animated feature "The Dream-Quest
of Unknown Kadath", where today's motto is "What --
did you expect Final Fantasy?" All volunteers receive
screen credit, a copy of the finished movie, and whatever else kind
of goodies I can think of to pass around. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Dream-Quest of
Unknown Kadath movie website May 26: Dagomon No Yobigoe Randolph Carter sends along this interesting piece of information about a Lovecraftian episode of "Digimon". ~The thirteenth episode of the Japanese anime series Digimon Adventure 02 was rather Lovecraftian. It was called "Dagomon no Yobigoe" which translates to "The Call of Dagomon." The Cthulhu-like monster Dagomon only appeared briefly at the beginning and ending of the episode, and even then all you saw was a monstrous shadow. I don't know very much about the episode's story, but there is an English version of the episode, which was re-titled "His Master's Voice". Dagomon was renamed "Dragomon" for some strange reason. The most information about the episode I could find came from http://duckfeather.net/digimon/episode67.htm.~ I'll post more information
about this as it becomes available. (Thanks to Randolph Carter) May 26: Photo fun from Fangoria Weekend of Horrors Chud.com has posted a write-up with several photos from the latest Fangoria Weekend of Horrors. The write-up contains the following Lovecraftian info: - Lions Gate will be
doing midnight showings of "Beyond Re-Animator" this
summer around the country. There are also pictures of Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, Dagon), Brian Yuzna (Beyond Re-Animator), Jeffrey Combs (Dr. Herbert West himself!), Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead) among others. Click here to view the entire write-up and photos. (Thanks to http://www.chud.com/) May 24: Miskatonic University radio WMUR, Miskatonic University
radio has all your campus favorites served up Click here to listen to Miskatonic University radio. (Thanks to Toren Atkinson) May 23: Update from Ivan Zuccon! I received the following update from Ivan Zuccon today. It updates the current status of his upcoming releases and projects. As mentioned, the new
street date for the "Unknown Beyond" DVD is August
26th. Ivan says the extra features will include an alternate ending,
a deleted scene and the trailer. He went on to mention the following news for his upcoming films, "Spiral" and "The 7th War". ~The script of Spiral finished. I like a lot this work. Is not a true lovecraftian movie, but there are some lovecraft ideas in the plot. We have a little delay, we will shoot it in October/November. Also, we are working with a German producer on the 7th war. We are planning to shoot the movie on super16 or High Definition, and then print the movie to 35mm. The 7th war will be a very expensive movie, for this reason we are searching a co-producer.~ Special thanks to Ivan Zuccon for keeping us up to date on his current slate of projects. May 22: Another Pickman's Model! Rick Tillman (Pickman's Model) sends word that Giovanni Furore (a director from Italy) is working on a adaptation of the same story. Giovanni's version is currently in post-production (as is Rick's). Rick also discovered the poster for a version of Pickman's Model directed by Cathy Welch! More news on both of these films as it becomes available. Special thanks to Rick Tillman for discovering, and informing us about these previously unknown adaptations. May 22: REVIEW: Evil Dead: Fistful of Boomstick (PS2) Ronin1272 and Bloody-Disgusting.com have a review up for the further adventures of Evil Dead's Ash. Click here to check it out. (Thanks to http://bloody-disgusting.com/) May 22: Review: DEAD BY DAWN Festival Ain't It Cool News has a great review of Scotland’s Dead by Dawn Festival. A couple of Lovecraftian films made an appearance, including "Evil Dead" and "Beyond Re-Animator". They also unveiled the new PS2 game EVIL DEAD: A FISTFUL OF BOOMSTICK. Other films screened at the festival included Near Dark, May, Dog Soldiers and Undead. Click here for the complete review. (Thanks to http://aintitcoolnews.com/) May 22: Re-Animator soundtrack review There is a short review of Richard Band's score for "Re-Animator" up on Gorezone.net. The soundtrack was recently release by LA-LA Land records. Click here to read the review. (Thanks to http://www.gorezone.net/) May 22: Creepfest 2003 taking submissions Creepfest 2003 is now taking submissions for their October event. According to Creature-Corner.com: ~ The second annual Creepfest will be held this October in the City of Angels, and starting now through July they're accepting entries for pretty much anything horror/goth/dark fantasy related you can think of. Whether you're a musician, painter, graphic designer, filmmaker...as long as you're into the stuff that goes bump in the night, they wanna see it. You can get all the info on how to submit, as well as more specific details on Creepfest 2003, over on the festivals official website. Hell, you can even find out how to advertise or just plain help support them, which is always a noble thing to do. And make sure you tell 'em you heard about it here! ~ Click here for the official Creepfest website. (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) May
22: New "Unknown Beyond" street date In my endless quest for all things Lovecraftian, I find the following question is asked on many forums, message boards and email groups. "What is the best Lovecraft adaptation?" So I thought I would poll the readers of Unfilmable.com, and compile a list of films. So I ask, what are your favorite Lovecraft feature film adaptations and short film adaptations? Suggest as many (or few) films as you would like. I will then compile a list and take the top five vote recipients from each category. In a week or so I will post the results. Also, the next time I see that question asked on a forum, board or group, I'll have a handy list to post in reply. Send your replies to: pickman@unfilmable.com Thanks in advance for your participation (no names or email addresses will accompany the list). May 21: Complete Fango CA convention schedule! Fangoria.com has a complete Fangoria CA convention schedule online. Many Lovecraft film personalities will be in attendance. Guests include Stuart Gordon, Brian Yuzna, and Bruce Campbell. Click here for a complete listing. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) May 21: The 2nd Annual Flashback Weekend The second annual Flashback Weekend will be held on June 13-15 in Rosemont, Illinois. Guests include Ken Foree (Stuart Gordon's "From Beyond"), Tom Sullivan (Creator of "The Evil Dead's" Necronomicon Ex Mortis) who will be bringing his Evil Dead Museum, which includes artwork and original props from "The Evil Dead". Other guests include Robert Englund, Brad Dourif, and Bill Moseley. There will also be a special showing of EVIL DEAD! The Musical. Including the original cast that played to sold-out houses at the Rowhouse Outdoor Theater in October 2002. Some of the films to be screened include "The Hills Have Eyes" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Click here for a complete rundown of the convention. Click here
to check out Tom Sullivan's cool website (which contains a Cthulu Gallery),
and here for
Bill Moseley's official website. May 20: 'A Fistfull of Boomstick' Shipped! According to bloody-disgusting.com, The unofficial and yet official sequel to the Evil Dead movies, A Fistfull of Boomstick is going to hit video game stores as early as this week! For all the info on where to order it, where to get it and when to expect it, click here. (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) May
19: Music From Beyond The fully illustrated, color CD booklet features Exclusive Liner Notes from writer/director STUART GORDON, composer RICHARD BAND and film music writer RANDALL D. LARSON. This is a LIMITED EDITION pressing of 3000 units. Each CD is hand-numbered to ensure only 3000 exist. Order now from our website and receive your CD autographed by Richard Band at no extra charge!! (For a limited time only). RETAIL PRICE: $19.98 plus shipping and handling. (Thanks to http://www.lalalandrecords.com/) May 19: Beyond Re-Animator to get midnight screenings? According to Fangoria.com, Lions Gate is still negotiating to get BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR some midnight bookings this summer. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) May 17: "The Eldritch Influence" is coming A trailer is now online for the new Lovecraft documentary, "The Eldritch Influence". The documentary is being directed by Shawn Owens of Hermetic Productions. Some of the people interviewed include S.T. Joshi, writers Neil Gaiman, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, and director Stuart Gordon. It will also contain many of Lovecraft's 'favorite haunts' from his hometown of Providence, as well as, footage from Andrew Migliore's H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Shawn has previously directed the short films, "The Trial of Set" and "Gnosis" (which screened at the 2002 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival). Click here to visit Hermetic Productions official site. Click here to view "The Eldritch Influence" trailer. (Thanks to Andrew Migliore) May 18: June screenings of "The Yellow Sign" There will be two screenings of Aaron Vanek's short film, "The Yellow Sign" in Los Angeles. Both screenings are free (excluding parking, food and drink), and will offer several other horror-short films. The dates are June 4 and 25. WEDNESDAY, June 4 New Filmmakers Series at CineSpace THE YELLOW SIGN by Aaron Vanek. With: Shawna Waldron, Dale Snowberger. 45 mins. 2001 Young gallery owner Tess Reardon starts losing her mind while posing for a mad painter. Based on a story by Robert W. Chambers. The following films will also be screened; ONE TIME SESSION by Valentino Ferreira, STILL by David Lowery, SO, WHAT'S IN JERICHO? by Blake Brocksmith & Mark O'Toole, STRANDED by Don Waters. CineSpace WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25TH,
2003 7:30PM CONTINENTAL RESTAURANT
& MARTINI BAR (Thanks to Aaron Vanek) May 17: RUINS OF KADATH FOUND IN ANTARCTICA? Pardon the off topic post, but I thought it was rather interesting. Besides, If this were to prove true, Guillermo Del Toro wouldn't have to use a set and CGI when filming his upcoming adaptation of "At the Mountains of Madness"! :) Click here to read the [news] story. They say they have more Lovecraft related articles to come! (Thanks to darkside_dementia) May 16: Re-Animator and Evil Dead II make EW's top 50 Stuart Gordon's "Re-Animator"
and Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead II" made Entertainment Weekly's
list of 'The TOP 50 Cult Movies'! They are number 32 and 19 respectively.
Other notable inclusions are Tod Browning's "Freaks",
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Dawn
of the Dead", and John Carpenter's "They Live".
May 14: Cthulhu is rising! Anthony Penta sent along the following about a new film adaptation of "The Call of Cthulhu". The information appears on the Providence Monthly website. ~Frank Difficult, while
not originally from Rhode Island, has chosen one of Providence’s
most famous figures, H.P. Lovecraft, as the subject of his current film.
“So much of the city is in his works… and none of the movies
based on his writings have been done right,” said Difficult. Click here to read the original article. (Thanks to Anthony Penta) May 14: The 7th War is coming! I have just finished reading a short treatment for Ivan Zuccon and Enrico Saletti's third film in the Beyond series, "The 7th War". All I can say is, incredible! The 7th War will definitely be a film to watch for in 2004! More as it becomes available. (Thanks to Ivan Zuccon) May 12: "The
Thing" DVD cover Here is a cover image of Warner Bros. upcoming DVD release of the "The Thing" (1951). As previously mentioned, the release date is August 5th. (Thanks to http://www.gorezone.net/dvdcrypt/) According to DVD Crypt, J-Pop Cinema will be releasing Uzumaki on DVD. No release date or features information are available at this time. (Thanks to http://www.gorezone.net/dvdcrypt/) May 10: An Imperfect Solution listed on IMDb! Christian Matzke's upcoming film "An Imperfect Solution: A Tale of the Re-Animator" is now listed on The Internet Movie Database. Click here to view the listing. And remember to keep your eye on the Imperfect Solution website. The teaser trailer will be available very soon! (Thanks to Christian Matzke) May 9: Chicago Horror Film Festival Premiere The date is set for the second Chicago Horror Film Festival (re-titled the Horrorfest Film Festival). It will be held on the weekend of October 29th - 30th. They are taking submissions for this upcoming festival. Below is information pertaining to the first festival. ~The Chicago Horror Film Festival, A horror film festival dedicated to bringing short horror films to Chicago, will be premiering June 1st at the 3 Penny Cinema 5-11 p.m. $8.00 to get in and drinks served to anyone with a valid ID. It will be one hell of a time. We have a line up of twenty films to be played over six hours and many door prizes that will be available every hour, thankfully donated by Troma Films and Cultcuts magazine. Come, Drink, Have Fun, and GET SCARED. And for those of you out there with short films, don't forget to check out our website for information about submitting for our next festival. http://gatlinsdomain.com/horrorfest~ (Thanks to Jason R. Davis) May 9: The Unnamable site update ~update~ Sascha Renninger has updated the official website for his adaptation of "The Unnamable". You can now view a Windows Media Player or QuickTime film trailer as well as find out how you can help with the production. Click here to visit the official website. May 7: No NecronomiCon? It's official, there will be no NecronomiCon for 2003. Work will be underway soon on a new website, but for now there is the following disclaimer on the official site: Yes, this is the Click here to access the official website. Click here to read about past events. (Thanks to PST Productions) May 6: Imperfect Solution trailer up soon! Keep an eye on Christian Matzke's "An Imperfect Solution" website. Christian hopes to have the trailer up very soon! Click here
to visit the official website. May 3: "The Unnamable" film update! Sascha Renninger sent along this great update with the latest news about the "THE UNNAMABLE" project. ~ "My name is Sascha Renninger and i just wanted to give you the latest news about the "THE UNNAMABLE" project. There once was a video version, shot in german language, that was never finished. That is the version linked on "the haunter of the dark" website. After reworking the script for nearly two years, i decided to do a "bigger" version, more closely based on the original short story. We shot on super 16mm film, the running time will be 15min, we shot with american actors in english language. Though there are still some scenes to be shot, we`re already into postproduction as well. Up to 80% of the planned scenes are shot and the results are quite good. We want to release the film as DVD, with lots of bonus special features and some other horror short films. And of course submit it to the H.P.Lovecraft film festival and other [festivals]. Since the project is financed by myself (sadly, i had a hard time to find investors), it will take some time to finish the film properly. If we raise more money, then there will be a 35mm print, to watch on the big screen..." ~ "THE UNNAMABLE" was written and directed by Sascha Renninger. It is based on a script by Sascha Renninger & Torsten Nowicki (who worked on the former version), and the original short story by H.P. Lovecraft. The production stars Jeff Motherhead as Joel Manton & Robert Lyons as Randolph Carter. It was produced by Sascha's company CHURCH-HILL Filmproduction. A teaser trailer will be available soon from the official website (currently under construction). You can access the website here. Sascha also mentioned that the film version of "The Haunter of the Dark" will never be released (in the announced form) due to financial problems. The official website for "The Haunter of the Dark" can be found here. (Thanks to Sascha Renninger) May 3: Evil Dead box set??? Anchor Bay UK will be releasing a box set of the Evil Dead films. It will be a four disk set, with the fourth disk being devoted to exclusive extras. It will not include the short film, "Within the Woods" however. No mention as to whether they plan to release this set in the US. This information was
gathered from the Anchor Bay UK forum. More information as it becomes
available. Several films in the Forthcoming Terrors page have been updated. These include The Unnamable, The Shadow over Innsmouth and The Haunter of the Dark. Click here to access the Forthcoming Terrors page. Any other changes can
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