November 28: Pickman speaks with fangoria.com!

Actor Conor Timmis (Richard Upton Pickman) caught up with Fangoria.com today and he revealed his motivation behind taking the role in Gary Fierro's Pickman's Model...

Visit fango for more!

(Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/)

November 28: Evil Dead: The Ultimate Edition DVD review

Check out Dread Central's review of the forthcoming Evil Dead: The Ultimate Edition DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

November 27: Lovecraft's Pillow screening

Mark Steensland's Lovecraft's Pillow will screen this Thursday night along with his other short films Sucker, Dead@17 and Peekers. The 7:30 screening will take place in room 180 of the Research and Economic Development Center on the Penn State Erie Campus. After Peekers premieres at 8:15, there will be a Q&A with cast and crew. The screening is free and open to the public...

(Thanks to Mark Steensland)

November 27: Support Indie filmmakers, Asleep in the Deep DVD on sale!



The Moviemark DVD Indie Shorts Project containing Paul von Stoetzel's Asleep in the Deep (based on The Music of Erich Zann) is now available for $5.00 (list price was $19.95). Moviemark DVD will be closing permanently in December 2007, so supplies (and time) are limited. Click here for details...

About the film: Asleep in the Deep is an experimental/narrative film adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story. In the vein of David Lynch and Maya Deren, the film follows a punk girl, Alyce, down the rabbit hole into a strange land. She is first tormented by a group of upper-class dinner-goers but soon finds a strange building with even stranger inhabitants. Her new odd neighbors are topped by a reclusive violin player, Zahn, who mesmerizes all with his playing. Alyce eventually meets and befriends the black, older violin player to find out too late that he plays for all of the lost children in the world. The next time they meet, Zahn is nothing more than a living-dead musician and Alyce runs from the strange land never to find it again...

(Thanks to Allen Richards)

November 27: Lurking Fear on DVD

C. Courtney Joyner's Lurking Fear will be released on DVD next week by Full Moon Entertainment. The film will be part of the Full Moon Classics vol II, which is a 5 DVD box set containing Robot Wars, Mandroid, Invisible, Dark Angel and Lurking Fear. The set is priced at $59.95 and available at www.fullmoondirect.com...

(Thanks to Charles Band)

November 27: The Mist is everywhere!

Frank Darabont's The Mist has spread all over the web with interviews, reviews and more! Check out the various links below...

~ bloody-disgusting.com interview with Frank Darabont
~ bloody-disgusting.com interview with Toby Jones
~ bloody-disgusting.com interview with Marcia Gay Harden
~ fangoria.com's interview with Thomas Jane
~ fangoria.com's interview with Frank Darabont
~ bloody-disgusting.com review #1
~ bloody-disgusting.com review #2
~ fangoria.com's Thanks for the Mist-eries
~ fangoria.com's King & Darabont: Together Again Part 1
~ fangoria.com's King & Darabont: Together Again Part 2
~ fangoria.com's Together Apart in The Mist
~ Dread Central's Into the Mist

(Thanks to Dread Central, http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/ and http://www.fangoria.com/)

November 26: The Pickman's Model trailer is here!

For Immediate Release:

The trailer for H.P. Lovecraft's "Pickman's Model" is now online! It can be found on YouTube, MySpace, or the official website...

The film stars Conor Timmis (Kreating Karloff) as Richard Upton Pickman, Jesse Murphy (Banshee!!!) as Thurber and Derek Meinecke as Eliot.

"Pickman's Model" was directed by Gary Fierro, and adapted for the screen by Justin Tacchi from the classic H.P. Lovecraft story. Makeup/FX was created by Norman Bryn (Kreating Karloff).

Coming early 2008!

(Thanks to Uncanny Films)

November 25: Book of the Dead poster art!



Check out the very cool poster art for the Ohio lensed Book of the Dead: Necromancer! The film is currently shooting and will be released in the first part of 2008...

(Thanks to the Official MySpace page)

November 22: The Book teaser online!

James Raynor sends word that the teaser trailer for H.P. Lovecraft's The Book is now online!

Check it out here!

(Thanks to James Raynor)

November 21: Richard Upton Pickman returns

A new short film based on HPL's Pickman's Model was recently completed by director Gary Fierro (Sweating Bullets)! The film stars Conor Timmis, Jesse Murphy and Derek Meinecke. Norman Bryn (Kreating Karloff) supervised the make-up effects...

Images from the film can be found here!

(Thanks to http://www.mjsimpson.co.uk/)

November 18: From Beyond, an interesting take on a Lovecraft classic...

Dread Central reports that Shoreline Entertainment is currently in pre-production on yet another adaptation of From Beyond! You can visit Shoreline's From Beyond page here...

About the film: Detective Davis Tillinghast is a modern day Sherlock Holmes, using his keen intellect and powers of deduction to solve the cases no one else can ... until now. A series of bizarre and seemingly impossible mutilations have him stumped, the only tenuous clue leading back to the laboratory of his estranged brother Crawford, a crazed genius obsessed with inter-dimensional physics. Crawford has invented an instrument that hyper-stimulates the pineal gland of the brain, making visible the many thousands of parallel universes that occupy our space/time continuum. But unbeknownst to him this machine is also empowering creatures from other realities, giving them the ability to "drift" - travel between dimensions. Davis discovers that a "drifter" has been causing the random mutilations and sets out to destroy his brother's machine. In the process, Davis is exposed to a vast amount of the machine's energy, turning him too into a drifter.

(Thanks to David Bostaph and Dread Central)

November 18: Untamed Aggression unlocks the meaning of the Necronomicon!

Director James Raynor (Angry and Moist: An Undead Chronicle) is set to film H.P. Lovecraft's The Book for the United Kingdom's Northern Film School. Produced by Nicola Ford, the short film will begin shooting sometime in December or January. A writer has yet to be found, although James has an existing script that was written over the summer. Location scouting and CGI tests are currently underway.

The film revolves around a man who tries to unlock the meaning of the Necronomicon, the dreaded tome which sent his old professor insane. The story was adapted from H.P. Lovecraft's The Book and The Descendant...

(Thanks to James Raynor)

November 18: A Night of Horror still needs those Lovecraft films!

The late deadline for next years A Night of Horror International Film Festival is December 3rd, so send in those Lovecraft Films! The final deadline (through Withoutabox) is December 17th...

Films selected to screen at the festival will compete for several thousand dollars worth of cash and prizes thanks to their generous sponsors, including Kodak, Atlab, People Magazine and Starz Entertainment.

For more information visit: www.anightofhorror.com

Or send your entries through: www.withoutabox.com

(Thanks to Lovecraft 21C Productions)

November 18: Rumor regarding Stallone's Poe film

According to bloody-disgusting.com, news that Sylvester Stallone has offered Viggo Mortensen the role of Edgar Allan Poe in his film, titled Poe, appeared over on Cinema Blend. Stallone will write/direct and produce the film...

(Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)

November 18: Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash the comic!

Read all about it in fangoria.com's Fearful Feature...

(Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/)

November 17: The Colour from the Dark trailer has arrived!



The official trailer for Ivan Zuccon's Colour Out of Space adaptation, Colour from the Dark, is now online!

Check it out here...

(Thanks to http://www.ivanzuccon.com/)

November 14: The summer of Love(craft)!

For Immediate Release:

The Miskatonic Acid Test adds FX talent

In the interest of bringing The Miskatonic Acid Test's long post-production process to a close, American Entropy has quadrupled its FX team with the addition of Special Effects Technicians Brian Morse, Randy "Madd" Mann, and Brett Perry (of Horizon Video Designs). The addition of these talented FX specialists will also enable us to scale up the ambitions of the movie's FX-laden finale, which will attempt to deliver something unique in Lovecraftian cinema, in keeping with the movie's theme of dark psychedelic gateways opened by an alchemical combination of drugs and acid rock.

Set in 1969, The Miskatonic Acid Test is the story of an unfortuante attempt by students at Arkham's Miskatonic University to put on a West-Coast style rock-and-LSD "happening". Though told through "found footage", the movie is more akin to "Monterey Pop" than "Blair Witch" (with a hint of "Head" and "The Trip" and maybe a little "Simon, King of the Witches") and features a coterie of bands who represent the late '60's "Arkham Sound", such as The Gyre Falcons and The Plasma Miasma. Written and Directed by Dark Lord Rob, the movie stars Erika Dyer, Sam Cohan, Jonathan Silver, Emily Griffin, Shawn French, Chris Lobdell, John Joyce and Donald Foley.


(Thanks to Dark Lord Rob)

November 12: Pickman's Muse images and update!

Production continues on Robert Cappelletto's (To Oblivion) adaptation of Pickman's Model and The Haunter of the Dark, and the High Definition film should wrap towards the end of 2007. Robert also sends word that composer Willy Greer (Cthulhu) has signed on to score the film...

The production is seeking CGI work and all interested parties can contact Robert here...

(Thanks to Robert Cappelletto)

November 12: The Dunwich Horror wraps

Richard Griffin's The Dunwich Horror wrapped principle photography on Sunday November 11th!

(Thanks to Richard Griffin)

November 12: The Creature from the Hillbilly Lagoon released!

Director Richard Griffin's Creature from the Hillbilly Lagoon (aka Seepage!) will be released tomorrow on DVD by POP cinema!

Click here for details...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

November 12: First Mist reviews appear

Several positive reviews for Frank Darabont's The Mist have appeared on Dread Central and fangoria.com...

(Thanks to Dread Central and http://www.fangoria.com/)

November 9: More talk of Madness

Here's what Guillermo del Toro had to say when fangoria.com asked about At the Mountains of Madness:

"H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness is not in limbo anymore. I've self-financed the designs, the maquettes, everything—so I'd be overjoyed if it worked out with them. But it's definitely R-rated, is very expensive and doesn't have a happy ending. I'm waiting patiently for big tentpole horror coming back into fashion, like The Exorcist and Alien, so I can do it justice..."

(Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/)

November 8: The latest Closet Space review...

...can be found here, courtesy of fatally-yours.com.

(Thanks to Mel House)

November 7: Tell-Tale finds lead

Josh Lucas (American Psycho) will star in Scott Free's adaptation of Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, simply titled Tell-Tale. The re-imagined storyline involves a single father who gets a heart transplant to save his life, but instead of going on with his life and enjoying his second chance, he soon realizes that the original heart's owner belonged to a man who was murdered, and a frantic search begins to find the killer before the killer finds him...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

November 6: Fango visits Dunwich!



Writer/director Richard Griffin caught up with Fangoria.com recently about his latest feature The Dunwich Horror! The article details some of his inspirations as well as his past and future projects, including Creature from Hillbilly Lagoon (coming November 13th from Shock-O-Rama)...

Check it out here!

(Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/)

November 6: Arkham's Dorm of the Dead



Recently released on DVD (September 18) by Under the Bed Films, Dorm of the Dead chronicles a college professor who brings zombie blood back from a trip to Haiti. After injecting it into a girl who is blackmailing him, she begins to infect students across the campus of Arkham University. Then a woman named Clare steals the blood and infects a Goth girl named Sarah who then begins to eat people as the epidemic grows...

Directed by Donald Farmer, the film stars Tiffany Shepis (NyMpha), Andrea Ownbey, Jackey Hall, Donald Farmer and Jim O'Rear...

Click here for more!

(Thanks to Christopher K. Philippo)

November 5: Exclusive House of Black Wings images!


Writer/director David Schmidt passed along these exclusive images from his second feature length movie, House of Black Wings! Visit the Black Wings store for some great merchandise, some of which is worn in the film...

(Thanks to David Schmidt)

November 4: Lovecraft inspired Transmission



Here's another film, titled Transmission, that I know nothing about, but the website describes it as "Dark modern horror short, inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos". Post-production was slated for completion in August of 2007...

(Thanks to http://www.shroudfilm.co.uk/shroud.htm)

November 4: Another thing on our doorstep?



Digital Shadow Films lists The Thing on the Doorstep (based on the H. P. Lovecraft short story) as one of their Pre-Production projects...

Watch this space for more!

(Thanks to http://www.digitalshadowfilms.com/)

November 3: Lovecraft's life animated?

According to RENCI (The Renaissance Computing Institute), Oscar-winning filmmaker Chris Landreth (Ryan) is currently working on an animated feature film entitled Lovecraft. The project will be based on the life of H.P. Lovecraft...

Nothing else about the film is mentioned, and I've found no other news on the project...

(Thanks to http://www.renci.org/)

November 2: Keeper of the Light wraps!


Production has ended on Robert P. Olsson's (13:de mars, 1941 and Kammaren) latest Lovecraft inspired film, Fyren (Keeper of the Light). Robert passed along a few images from the shoot, and kept a production diary that can be found here...

The film stars Jonas Nilsson, Kjell Kvarnevik, Stig Torstensson, Robert Johansson, Olof Larsson and Joakim Bengtsson...

(Thanks to Robert P. Olsson)

November 1: Gordon visits Lovecraft's Doorstep!



Dread Central uncovered some early promotional artwork for Stuart Gordon's The Thing on the Doorstep at this weeks AFM (American Film Market)! According to Dread's man on the scene, Gordon and Dennis Paoli are fine-tuning the script with the hopes that cameras will roll in the first half of 2008!

(Thanks to Dread Central)

November 1: Presenting the Great Cthulhu!

For Immediate Release: This limited edition bronze Cthulhu statue was expertly rendered by Harold Arthur McNeill and licensed exclusively through Arkham-Studios.com It is replete with an original graphic language that corresponds directly with Lovecraft's famed couplet regarding the unholy totem. (If you know Lovecraft, you know what the unspeakable words are!) Cthulhu stands 8" tall and cast in polymer resin then finished with a classic faux bronze rub, this durable statue will grace your ritual chamber or Lovecraftian collection with dark intensity. The stars are sure to be right as you pay tribute to Great Cthulhu with this iconic totem of blasted sanity. Limited Edition of 88 with a signed and numbered Certificate of Authenticity by Harold Arthur McNeill and Arkham Studios. They're going quickly so don't miss out on this rare sculpture. Buy yours today! The Cthulhu statue is $125.00 + $12.00 S&H domestic (USA) PayPal the amount of $ 137.00 to: info@arkham-studios.com

For International sales please email for shipping costs, and we also accept USPS domestic money orders as well. To purchase the statue with a money order please email us at inquiry@arkham-studios.com for shipping arrangements. The Cthulhu Bronze Edition Statue is painstakingly hand crafted to order so please allow approximately 4-5 weeks to fabricate. All of our clientele have agreed that it is worth the wait! So don't wait until the last minute… Cthulhu fhtagn !!! www.arkham-studios.com

(Thanks to Arkham Studios)

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