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...please
note: all the story links (courtesy of dagonbytes.com)
are currently down...
May 26: First Binding Silence images!
Check out the following images
from Ray Zablocki's Binding Silence! The
film recently premiered at the Parsons
School of Design BFA 2006 Thesis Exhibition...
The official website can be found here,
and a synopsis of the film can be found below.
William
works at his uncles bookstore, and they've had a
close relationship over the years. But when financial
matters threaten the business, and a sudden unnatural
obsession takes hold of William, the fate of the
store and their very lives are now at risk...
(Thanks
to Ray Zablocki)
May 24: New Mortuary review...
There's
a new review of Tobe Hooper's Mortuary on
cultcutsfilms.com.
Check
it out here...
(Thanks
to http://www.cultcutsfilms.com/)
May
23: Dare you gaze upon The Other Gods!
In the land of Kadath,
Barzai the Prophet climbs the mist-enshrouded peak
of Hatheg-Kla, only to meet his doom at the hands
of the Other Gods...
Barzai
the Prophet...
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...the
mountain Hatheg-Kla ...
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Yog-Sothoth
appears...
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Here's
a look at one of the more interesting projects
on the horizon courtesy of Mike Boas. Mike says
the film is almost complete, and you can learn
more about the project by clicking here...
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May
23: New Cthulhu screening in Providence!
The
H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's The Call
of Cthulhu will screen at this years Rhode Island
International Horror Film Festival! The festival
takes place in Lovecraft's own Providence, Rhode
Island...
Click
here
for details (and submission information).
(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/)
May
23: Host teaser online
Click
here
to check out the teaser trailer for The Host...
(Thanks
to http://www.gorezone.net)
May
22: House of Re-Animator poster!
(Thanks
to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/
and http://joblo.com/arrow/)
May 21: New Unnamable trailer unleashed!
The
new trailer for director Sascha Renninger's The
Unnamable is now online! Sascha tells Unfilmable.com
that the film should be completed by the end of
the year...
Check
it out here!
(Thanks
to Sascha Renninger)
May
19: The Veil is lifted!
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Toren
Atkinson (The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)
sends word of a new short film called The
Veil that recently completed post-production.
The film, produced by Steam Powered Films, was
written and directed by Mike Jackson (with Sam
Dulmage handling co-writing duties). Starring
Corina Akeson, Mackenzie Gray, Charles Zuckermann,
Toren Atkinson (who also wrote additional dialogue
and was the Lovecraft consultant) and Robyn
Forsyth, the film revolves around a young married
woman is haunted by dark visions. Is it her
medication, or something more sinister?
The
Veil was originally released in October
2005 as a six-minute short film, but an eleven-minute
version was recently completed. Additional
images (like the dark imagery you see below)
and information can be found by visiting the
official website here.
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(Thanks
to Toren Atkinson)
May 19: Whisperer update!
Sean Branney passed along
some news in regards to the HPLHS's adaptation of
The Whisperer in Darkness!
The
film will be produced and written by Sean Branney
and Andrew Leman, with Sean Branney handling the
directing duties. Whisperer will be shot
in the style of the early 30s as a B & W talkie,
and the storyline will include Lovecraft's original
tale and then expand upon what happens after it
ends...
Sean
will be location scouting in Maine this summer with
shooting to commence sometime after that...
He
also mentioned that their previous film, Call
of Cthulhu, won the Jameson Audience Choice
Award in Århus Denmark last month and
yesterday they got word that it won the Ghosts,
Apparitions and Things from Hell or other Dimensions
Award at the World Horror Con in San Francisco.
It continues to play in major film festivals all
over the world.
(Thanks
to Sean Branney)
...updated the Lovecraft
Filmography...
...updated
the forthcoming
terrors pages...
May 17: Cool Air plot revealed!
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Here's
the plot summary for Albert Pyun's adaptation
of Cool Air:
Literary
great HP Lovecraft's classic tale of horror
comes to the screen in the vein of his previous
works such as "Re-Animator"
and the "Unnamable". COOL
AIR opens with protagonist Charlie Baxter,
a struggling screenwriter, searching for accommodation
in a rundown mansion somewhere in the isolated
mountains above Malibu. An expressionless
and creatively bankrupt young man who rewrites
exploitation sci-fi / horror scripts for a
living, he takes a room in the mansion and
learns of the mysterious doctor residing in
the room above his own who dabbles in strange
experiments. As he learns more about the circumstances
of the doctor and the history of his landlady,
her autistic daughter and the strange lodger
across the hall, Baxter is inspired to write
his long blocked "great American Screenplay".
Working furiously, Baxter suffers a heart
attack, and staggers up to see the
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for treatment. He passes out immediately, but
awakens a cured man. But at a terrible price.
The Doctor, a strangely preserved woman named
Shockner, persuades Baxter to stay until he
recovers fully, and informs her "patient"
of the medical condition that has forced her
into a hermit's existence. Twenty years ago
Shockner suffered a fatal disease. Her solution
found in the occult and dark arts, preserved
her life but at the cost. Slowly Baxter is drawn
into a nightmarish world of insane experiments
and murder. He knows something must be done
to stop the evil that resides in the room at
the top of the stairs. Disaster eventually strikes
leading to a horrific climax for everyone who
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(Thanks
to http://www.imdb.com/)
May
16: Yellow Sign DVD artwork!
Director
Aaron Vanek passed along a few changes that have
been made to the Weird Tale Collection DVD…
The
short film Man on the Moon will no longer
be included, and Dale Snowberger's audition (for
the role of Aubrey Scott) may also be absent from
the finished disc. Aaron also provided Unfilmable.com
with a look at Lee Moyer's DVD cover art!
The
Weird Tale Collection Volume 1 (The Yellow
Sign and Others) will be available from Lurker
Films in late June/early July...
(Thanks
to Aaron Vanek and Andrew Migliore)
May 16: William H. Macy for President!
Dread Central reports (via
fangoria.com) that William H. Macy has officially
joined the cast of House of Re-Animator!
Macy will play the role of the President of the
United States...
Also onboard is former Re-Animator
costar Bruce Abbot and George
Wendt (Gordon's King of the Ants) as the
Vice President. Gordon would also like to complete
the original cast by bringing in Barbara Crampton
as the First Lady...
Filming will commence either in the fall of 2006
or early 2007 (after Gordon completes his next film
Stuck)...
(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/
and Dread
Central)
May 15: Lakeside property?
The
filmmakers behind Lakeside are looking for
a private lake area (in Western Washington State)
to shoot. If you have property they can use, please
contact them through their website
or MySpace
page...
(Thanks
to Neil Sarver)
May
15: Several new Lovecraftian film reviews...
Click
here
for a new Marebito review courtesy of cinema-nocturna.com,
and here
for a new review of the classic Hammer film Quatermass
and the Pit...
(Thanks
to http://www.cinema-nocturna.com/
and http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)
May
12: Final Yellow Sign DVD specs!
Here
are the final DVD specs for The Weird Tales Collection
coming soon from Lurker Films. The disc contains
Aaron Vanek's The Yellow Sign and several
other short films and features...
Bonus
features include:
~
The Yellow Sign re-mastered in widescreen.
~ The Yellow Sign re-mastered in 5.1 surround
sound audio.
~ The short films Tupilak and Man on the
Moon.
~ Two audio commentaries by Shawna Waldron and director
Aaron Vanek (the "straight" version and
the "drunk" version!).
~ A slide show of production stills from The
Yellow Sign.
~ The Yellow Sign subtitled in Spanish, French,
German, Japanese, Finnish, and Portuguese.
~ 5 minutes of outtakes (with music by The Darkest
of the Hillside Thickets) and the famed cut "ping
pong" scene.
~ Actor Dale Snowberger's first audition for the
role of Aubrey Scott.
~ A short documentary on author RW Chambers by Christophe
Thill, taped in Paris where Chambers studied art,
and featuring many of the locations he mentions
in The King in Yellow, including the Street
of the Four Winds, the Court of the Dragon, etc...
Watch
www.lurkerfilms.com
for ordering status!
(Thanks
to Aaron Vanek)
...updated the forthcoming
terrors pages...
May 10: Call of Cthulhu Interview
Click here
for a radio interview with Call of Cthulhu
director Andrew Leman and composer Troy Sterling
Nies...
(Thanks to The
Eldritch Gazette)
May 10: House Improbabilia opens for business!
Production began recently
on writer/director Derek M. Koch's follow-up to
Casonetto's Last Song (under the new
House Improbabilia label)! Details will be released
as the project moves forward…
(Thanks to Derek M. Koch)
May 10: Silence trailer online!
The trailer for Ray Zablocki's
Binding Silence in now online! The film is
set to premier tonight at the Parsons school of
Design BFA 2006 Thesis Exhibition…
Check it out here!
(Thanks to Ray Zablocki)
May 10: Another del Toro project...
The Hollywood Reporter has
announced that Guillermo del Toro will direct Konami's
video game version of Mike Mignola's Hellboy.
The release date is set for 2007…
(Thanks to Dread
Central)
May 10: Dare you enter the Chamber!
Shooting
began this week on Robert P. Olsson's follow-up
to "13:de mars 1941" (March
the 13th, 1941)! The film, titled Kammaren
(The Chamber), is again based on the story
"The Statement of Randolph Carter"
(as was March the 13th, 1941). Co-written
(along with Björn-Erik Karlsson) and directed
by Robert P. Olsson, the film stars Robert P. Olsson
(as Adam Forsman), Glenn Johansson (as Jens), Kaj
Stenberg (as Dr. Vest) and Sigvard Strömberg
(as Dr. Loe Halwén)...
The
story revolves around three friends, Adam, Björn
and Jens who take a trip to an old house on the
countryside. A house that for many years had a strange
house guest, Adams grandmother's brother Tore. Tore
knew something was strange about the place, but
now he has passed away and with him, the secret
of the house's evil history. Slowly Adam starts
to realize something's wrong, but is it to late?
Herbert
West (named Herbert Vest) makes an appearance as
a professor in Swedish Myths and Legends, and Robert
tells Unfilmable.com that the film will have
a very Swedish feel...
Watch
this space for more!
(Thanks
to Robert P. Olsson)
May
10: Lovecraft Related Musicians...
For
Immediate Release:
Time
is drawing close towards when I have to put a stop
to getting new material into my book The Strange
Sound of Cthulhu - Music Inspired by the
Writings of H.P. Lovecraft. If you are in a
band that has done music (even just one song) that
takes the works of Lovecraft for your inspiration,
make sure to get in touch with me (email me at musicstreetjournal@musicstreetjournal.com)
to be certain you get into the book. Also, if only
your name was drawn from a Lovecraft influence,
you should be included in the last chapter - sort
of an honorable mention section.
For
more information on the book, check out this page:
http://www.musicstreetjournal.com/cthulhubook.htm
(Thanks
to Gary Hill)
May
10: Musical Madness!
The
Unquiet Void have announced the third title
in their Lovecraft music trilogy! The third installment
will be based on At the Mountains of Madness,
and will give some history on the "outer gods"
existence on earth. The CD follows the previously
released Poison Dreams and the forthcoming
Shadow-Haunted Outside…
(Thanks
to Jason Wallach)
May
9: Herbert West visits the White House!
Fangoria.com
reports that Brian Yuzna and the newly formed Halcyon
International Pictures have announced the first
of the new Re-Animator films. The
first film in the proposed trilogy will be the oft-discussed
House of Re-Animator written by Dennis
Paoli and directed by Stuart Gordon! The project
will also re-team original stars Jeffrey Combs and
Bruce Abbott.
"We
want to cast big on this one," Yuzna tells
Fangoria, "If we get the budget, we want
to have great supporting actors. Stuart is going
to talk with William H. Macy, who just did Edmond
for him, to play the President of the United States."
You
can visit Halcyon International Pictures official
site by clicking here.
(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/)
May
3: Dunwich awaits!
Dan Harrod (Nyarlathotep) in a flashback
as "Young Wizard" Whateley
For Immediate Release:
Crawling Chaos Pictures in association with Page
Street Studios presents "Dunwich",
based on H.P. Lovecraft's tales "The Dunwich
Horror" and "The Terrible Old Man"
adapted, produced and directed by Sarah Tarling
and Christian Matzke.
Set in the early 1920's, "Dunwich"
is an intimate tale of the Whateley clan, and a
mysterious man who threatens to take Wilbur Whateley
away from his family.
The film is in production with a projected release
of late Summer 2006. A website is forthcoming.
(Thanks
to Christian Matzke)
May 3: Binding Silence premiere announced!
Ray Zablocki's Strange Aeons: The Awakening
follow-up, titled Binding Silence, is almost
ready to be unleashed on the world. The film premieres
at the Parsons School of Design BFA 2006 Thesis
Exhibition, running May 10th through the 24th. Times
(and location) can be found by visiting the films
official
site…
Watch
this space for more!
(Thanks to Ray Zablocki)
May
3: The Whisperer in Darkness in Mythoscope!
The
H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society have announced
their latest project via an interview in Rue Morgue
magazine…
The
film will be an adaptation of Lovecraft's The
Whisperer in Darkness! Details to come…
(Thanks to Christian Matzke)
May 3: I Am Providence...
The latest Rue Morgue (#56, From Beyond)
has a Travelogue of Terror that tours Lovecraft's
Providence...
(Thanks to Dread
Central)
May 3: Saint Seiya:
les Grands Anciens update!
Please
note:
Some of the following information has appeared previously
on Unfilmable.com…
Thibaut
Brix (Le manuscrit d'un fou) passed along
the following information on Saint Seiya:
The Old Ones:
The
live-action film is based on a Japanese animated
TV series (and manga) called Saint Seiya
("Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque" in
France and "Knights of Zodiac"
in the US), in which a group of modern knights with
magic armor serve the goddess Athena to protect
the world against darkness (based on Greek and Scandinavian
mythology). The first film (more will follow if
the first one attracts interest) will take place
50 years after the end of the Japanese series and
revolves around a new group of knights fighting
against new dark knights with armor based on the
Great Old Ones. The dark knights serve the Greek
god Hephaistos…
Vincent
Ritt has been attached to direct with Kami
Media set to produce. This July, Kami Media
will be present to promote the project at the Japan
Expo in Paris, France. When completed, the films
will be available for free on the internet…
(Thanks
to Thibaut Brix)
May
3: Another Halfway House review...
...check it out here!
(Thanks to Kenneth J. Hall)
May
3: Mountains of Madness still lurking?
In a recent Rue Morgue interview, director Guillermo
del Toro stated that he is still interested in adapting
At the Mountains of Madness...
(Thanks
to Christian Matzke)
May
1: More Call of Tu-tu imagery!
Here
are a few more photos from the set of Aaron Vanek's
upcoming short, The Call of Tu-tu!
Photos courtesy of Dale Snowberger...
(Thanks to Aaron Vanek)
yes, I'm a day a head of myself...
May 1: Sleeping Gods
Live!
The teaser trailer for Sven Bonnichsen's "Let
Sleeping Gods Lie" is now online! The original
trailer premiered last October at the H. P. Lovecraft
Film Festival...
Check
it out here!
(Thanks to Sven Bonnichsen)
...the Official Unfilmable.com
forum has been closed while we search for a new
host. Details to come...
...the Starry Wisdom
photo contest in over! Thanks to all who participated...
...the Graveyard
Smash Film Festival scheduled for this weekend
has been postponed. A new date is forthcoming...
May 1: New
Call of Cthulhu and Halfway House
reviews...
Click here
to read the Wormwood Chronicles eZine review for
The Call of Cthulhu...
Check out the No-Fi "Magazine" review
for The Halfway House here...
(Thanks to Gary Hill and Kenneth J. Hall)
recent
headlines...
April 26: New Flesh of
my Flesh teaser online!
April
25: Back From Beyond
April 24: Stuart Gordon speaks of Poe and the
White House
April 23: The Strange Sound of Cthulhu!
April 23: The Shadow-Haunted Outside
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