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~ HELLBOY helmer Guillermo del Toro has a new horror film in development at Revolution Studios/Columbia called CRIMSON PEAK. “It’s the fucking scariest ghost story ever,” del Toro tells Fango. “Since both MEPHISTO’S BRIDGE and IN THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS [based on works by Christopher Fowler and H.P. Lovecraft, respectively] have stalled for various reasons, I decided to write an original script. It’s set in the Victoria era, but will be much different and much scarier than THE OTHERS.” Del Toro also reports that he saw an advance cut of GOTHIKA (due November 21) and liked it. “[Director] Mathieu Kassovitz is a friend of mine,” he says, “and GOTHIKA is the CITIZEN KANE of Dark Castle horror films.” Stay tuned for more details on CRIMSON PEAK. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) Here's the latest on Charles Dexter Ward's upcoming trilogy of films based on The Call of Cthulhu (the first film is entitled, The Crawling Chaos). ~"The project "Call Of Cthulhu" is advancing and the music for the three films is in the process of being recorded with my group, The Slow Machine. We play music similar to the Who, the Doors and Pink Floyd, and our difficult task is the composition of the music for the trilogy "Call Of Cthulhu". But the psychedelic spirit of the group will help us. Especially since there are only two of us! My pal Jimbo (battery, percussion, gong, low) and me (electric/acoustic guitar, keyboards). But since improvisation is an obligation of the laws of the psychedelism, we will surely finish quickly!"~ (Thanks to http://www.weisy-productions.tk/) October 31: Lions Gate Goes Horror Crazy! Source: Lions Gate Horror! Fangoria informs us that "To celebrate the new releases of Cronos, The House that Dripped Blood and The Eye, along with its well-stocked horror library in general, Lions Gate Films is opening a special website devoted to its scary titles on Halloween. The site will include DVD specs, clips, trailers, contests and more to tie in with their current and future releases, the latter including the December 30 titles Beyond Re-Animator and Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood. You can access the fright site here. Lions Gate is also offering a special Halloween sale on a wide selection of its genre discs (including House of 1000 Corpses, May, Frailty and many others), offering 10 percent off the first title, 20 percent off the second and 30 percent off any three or more. Go here for that promotion." (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) October 31: Alien: Director's Cut review and AvP trailer Head over to Chud.com to read their review of Alien: The Director's Cut. The film is in theaters NOW! You can also view the new teaser trailer for Alien vs Predator here. There's also a lengthy script review on Ain't It Cool News. Check it out here. (Thanks to http://www.chud.com/,
http://www.gorezone.net/
and http://aintitcoolnews.com/) Steve's newest feature,
"Hellbound: Book of the Dead" will be released on vhs
and dvd by Brain
Damage Films December 23rd. (Thanks to http://www.b-horror.com/) From WinningScripts.com: H. P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu Action-Adventure Horror His insane cannibal disciples want to awaken the evil god Cthulhu and cause a worldwide reign of terror. Only three unlikely (and reluctant) heroes stand in their way. (Screenplay) Written by: Charles
Blakemore (Thanks to Christopher
K. Philippo) Edward Martin's animated adaptation of "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" and Ed Brisson's "Graveyard" have both been added to the Internet Movie Database! Interested in leaving a comment? If so, click here (Dream-Quest) and here (Graveyard). Both films contain great performances from Toren Atkinson (The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets). (Thanks to Edward Martin III) October 28: Evil Dead 1 & 2 Musical Play review! Click here to read the Ain't It Cool News review of the Evil Dead musicals! (Thanks to http://aintitcoolnews.com/) October 28: Englund Asking
for an Ass Kicking The latest rumblings keeping that dream alive are, of course, the rumored Freddy Vs. Jason Vs. Ash team up film, and in a recent interview with Zap 2 It, Robert Englund gave his take on what a good way to end it all this might be... "It would have to be a phenomenal script. It would have to be Bruce and Sam Raimi locked in a Palm Springs hotel for six weeks. It would be great for him and great for us. We could put the franchises to bed with a big, super, pop-culture, camp epic." How right he is in what a great way to end all the sequels this might be, how wrong in he is in theory that it actually would. If the film was done well (better than Fvs.J I should hope) and it managed to be even moderately successful you know the sequel wagon would keep on rollin'. Check out the entire
interview with Englund (in which he also discusses the possibility of
a new V movie) right here.
Click here
to read Cameron Rhyne's H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival review. The review
originally appeared (in a shorter form) on the alt.horror.cthulhu
newsgroup. Anyone else interested in sending along a review? If so, send it here! (Thanks to Cameron Rhyne) Ann Koi of Catalyst Studios and Mike Tice of Elegantly Amused Press have kindly given me permission to post some of there thoughts and reviews of the 10th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Check them out here. (Thanks to Ann and Mike) Note: This is a PAL region 0 DVD Ivan Zuccon sent word that the "The Darkness Beyond" has released on DVD by it's UK distributor, and it's available on Xploited.com. You can find it here. He also said that the trailer for "The Shunned House" can be found here! (Thanks to Ivan Zuccon) The November issue of Fangoria (#228, on sale now) has a lengthy retrospective on Richard Blackburn's 1973 vampire film "Lemora - A child's Tale of the Supernatural". Blackburn has this to say in regards to the films literary influences: ~"The two literary influences on the script were H.P. Lovecraft's Shadow Over Innsmouth and Arthur Machen's 'The White People,' " he reveals. "I remember reading a review of the movie in Postif, and the French nailed those two big literary influences, which confounded me. They were very perceptive, and I didn't know anybody even knew this stuff!... Robert Fern (the films producer) goes on to say..."We were in the same class as Jim Morrison, and we all did our around the same time. Richard and I got along terrifically, and he was so interested in Lovecraft that we thought a horror film would be a good idea..."~ The entire article is very well done, and definitely worth a look. Also, in the same issue... Ivan Zuccon's "The Shunned House" is Dr. Cyclops Video of the Month! (Thanks to Fangoria Magazine) October 25: Dead again From Toronto Eye Weekly: EVIL DEAD 1 & 2: THE MUSICAL Featuring Ryan Ward,
Mackenzie Lush, Danielle Meierhenry. Directed by Christopher Bond. Written
by George Reinblatt. Created by George Reinblatt, Christopher Bond.
Presented by Beyond Chutleigh Productions. To Nov 1. Thu-Sat 8pm; Fri-Sat
11pm. $20. Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick. 416-723-3845. Beyond Chutleigh's remount of Christopher Bond and George Reinblatt's musical adaptation of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead films comes just two months after the close of its first run. Its creators say they've made changes based on criticisms they received the first time around, tweaking a few songs, adding some gore and rejigging the set to free up some space on stage. The Tranzac Club's casual barroom theatre is a perfect fit for Evil Dead -- it's the kind of play you want to drink at. Plus, the stage is large enough to accommodate the first of the play's nifty gadgets: an oversized copy of the Necronomicon, the evil book at the centre of the Evil Dead story, mounted just above the stage, which flips open to reveal a projected intro. From there, we meet Ash (Ryan Ward) and his four friends, who break into a cabin in the woods for a vacation. When they find a stash of weapons, an old tape recorder and a battered copy of the Necronomicon, hell literally breaks loose and rampages around the cabin, largely in the form of wisecracking demon-zombies. The songs suffer on the musical end but boast some genuinely funny lines. The singing is competent -- most of the cast have recognizably amateur but not unpleasant voices -- and with the exception of Daniel Krolik, who overplays redneck Jake, the actors have a good grasp of the films' campy B-movie humour. As Ash, Ward occasionally falls out of character, but nails his best, most over-the-top lines. All involved appear to be having a grand lark with the material, which makes a huge difference with this kind of theatre. You can't blame them; Michelle Alderson-Smith has given them a wonderfully interactive stage to play on, and there's plenty of gleefully squirting stage blood to frolic in. The production has flaws, but they're minor, not the sort to worry about in a production of a zombies-and-chainsaws musical. If you must, sit in the front row; the blood in your eyes will distract you, and you can enjoy Evil Dead for the romp that it is. - JOEL MCCONVEY (Thanks to Dan Clore) No, this isn't in
reference to the Lovecraftian short film, "Halfway
House", that I have been developing this year. It's from
an entirely different production, so it looks like I'm gonna have to
think up a new name... From: moviehole ...These beauties appeared in the inbox today. They’re the first photos be released from "The Half-way House", a retro-wild horror flick for cult and monster geeks. It’s also just been revealed that the star of the film is the queen of coolness, Mary Woronov. She plays Sister Cecelia, the insane nun hiding a horrifying secret deep below the Mary Magdelon Halfway House For Troubled Girls. Click here to check out the exclusive pics. "The Half-way House" is writer/director/producer Ken Hall's homage to the AIP H.P. Lovecraft horror films and "women in prison" movies he grew up seeing at the drive-in along with the slasher films that he helped create effects and write for in the 1980s. If Tarantino is retro-recreating the grindhouse kung fu flicks of his youth with "KILL BILL", Ken is delivering with a spot-on bloody valentine to the fun horror movies he loved as a kid and laments seeing nothing like out there for today's horror audiences. This is shock and flow (blood that is) horror to wake up today's kids and make their parents howl with horrible delight... Thanks to 'Sam' (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/
and http://www.moviehole.net/) Ken Hall (creator of the Puppetmaster series, FX fella, and all-around cool cat) has gathered a talented team of monster lovers for his film The Halfway House, a Lovecraft-inspired roll of celluloid for us to chew on. Said to be a dangerous concoction of cthulhu mythos, women in prison flicks, and a little bit of AIP goodness, Halfway House concerns a gal who goes undercover at a church-run halfway house for troubled girls (sounds delightful already) looking for her sister who has mysteriously disappeared. It appears this house misplaces girls often, the nun (played by Rock 'n Roll High School's Mary Woronov) has an evil streak to her, and the priest has a few secrets of his own. But the main question appears to be: what the hell is in the basement?! Until we find out for ourselves, the creators of The Halfway House have sent us a slew of pictures to feast our eyes upon. For more details on Hall's latest endeavor, a cast and crew breakdown filled with a bunch o' lovely faces, and a set diary click HERE for the official site. Click here for some behind-the-scenes pics you may or may not find anywhere else. (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) The line-up for Thursday,
October 30th has been set. It will take place in Seattle,WA at The
Jewel Box Theater, (2320 2nd Ave) at 10pm. We will be showing Pickman's
Model, Maelstrom Production's The
Thing on the Doorstep, Christian Matzke's An
Imperfect Solution, Aaron Vanek's The
Yellow Sign, and Jane Rose's The Statement Of Randolph Carter
(A great short, don't miss it! Craig). We might be bringing a few
surprise films with us to show at the end of the night if people want
to stay and watch more Lovecraftian mayhem....but you'll have to show
up to see what they are!!! Oh yeah, and here's the poster for the night:
Here are the details on Shocktoberfest: A Hometown Horror Film Festival, presented by Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, NY, and co-sponsored by my own Very Scary Productions. For those who haven't heard about this yet, Shocktoberfest is a two-day horror film festival taking place on Thursday, October 30th & Friday, October 31st. Upstate New York filmmakers Joe Bagnardi of Watervliet, Bruce G. Hallenbeck of Kinderhook, and myself, will be leading a panel discussion to kick things off at noon on Thursday. This will be followed by a reception, and movie screenings beginning at 2 p.m. and running until midnight. On Friday movies will be screened from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. For complete details on the festival, including the film lineup and screening times, click here to visit HVCC's website and read the press release: http://www.hvcc.edu/news_events/newsstory.php3?id=2454 Additional information about many of the festival entries can be found on the following pages of my website: "The Temptress" (feature): http://www.veryscaryproductions.com/temptresspage.html "The Edge Of Reality" (feature): http://www.veryscaryproductions.com/otherprojects.html "Night Therapy"
(short film) (Thanks to Jeff Kirkendall) October 21: Freddy vs Jason vs Ash ? Source: Aint it Cool Bruce Campbell tells Capone of Aint it Cool, "What's more likely--not much more likely, but a little more likely (than Evil Dead 4)--is the other rumor concerning Ash vs. Freddy vs. Jason. We have been talking about doing an Ash loan out, like actors used to do when they were under contract, loan out an actor to another studio. In this case, we'd loan the character of Ash. But it would have to be contractual that Ash would have to kick both their asses. He would have to win, or I wouldn't do it. The idea has been bandied about on a purely bull**** level by junior executives at New Line who may not have the sperm to kick it up to the decision-making level. If anyone was really serious, the franchises would have to talk." (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) October 21: Is Alien vs. Predator really like "At the Mountains of Madness"? Here's the storyline according to Darkhorizons.com... As far as the story, we are told that in the past, the Predators used the Aliens for hunting purposes, as a right of passage for the young Predator to become men (er, for lack of a better term). We see one such battle play out in an Aztec temple. Supposedly, the Predators were seen as Gods to the Aztec people (some shades of 'Stargate', it would seem), who built them their temples for worshipping and battle purposes. They showed some storyboards of one Predator defeating an Alien, holding its severed head in victory, as well as some boards where three Predator are overrun by thousands of Aliens, and upon realizing that they have clearly lost the battle, they activate their self-destruct. This is why so many ancient civilizations have been wiped out; Predator hunting failures. Flash forward to present day, where a group of scientists have found one of the ancient Predator temples under an Antarctic icecap. The story revolves around 5 "teenage" Predators who are set to undergo their right of passage with the Aliens at this newly discovered temple, with the humans caught in the middle. There was also some brief discussion about the Predators testing out their new weapons technology. The video showed one example, a modified shuriken throwing star (apparently this weapon is 'in' again after 'Underworld'), which starts as a small handle with a trigger and expands into 6 elongated razor blades. This was actually pretty cool looking. Anyways, that pretty much rounded out the presentation. They quickly flashed some shots edited together from the two respective franchises, and rounded it out with a tagline (which may or may not be the final one), "Whoever wins...we lose." All in all, hard to tell too much about the final product from the small amount shown". Thanks to 'Agent G'. (Thanks to http://www.darkhorizons.com/) Click here for Edward Martin's Festival report (in regards to Dream-Quest)! The report includes links to Derek M. Koch's festival write-up for rewindvideo.com, and new screening information. (Thanks to Edward Martin
III) FILM LOVERS AND HATERS
UNITE: DAS DATUM STEHT: THE DATE IS FIX: Filmmakers, Producers,
Distributors send Your screeners NOW for our selection . check the updated page
soonest! (Thanks to Mike Neun) From pickmansmodel.com: Just a quick note to
let you know that we've got another screening coming up in a couple
of weeks. We'll be showing the film here in Seattle on Thursday, Oct.30th
at The Jewel
Box Theater...just in time for Halloween!!! Also on the bill will
be Maelstrom Production's The
Thing on the Doorstep and Christian Matzke's An
Imperfect Solution. (Thanks to http://www.pickmansmodel.com/) Source: Apple.com You can watch six clips from the very Lovecraftian, Alien: Director's Cut over at Apple.com in beautiful Quicktime format. Experience one of the scariest movies of all time in theaters this Halloween! Word around the internet is that the amount of screens showing Alien has gone down from 1200 to 350... (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) Here ya go! The first review of the 10th annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival! Click here to read Catherine Fuller's account. I was lucky enough to meet Catherine at the festival, and she agreed to share her thoughts with us. She's attended every festival since it's inception in 1996... Look for Aaron Vanek's festival review soon, as well as my write-up (co-written with my uncle, Rick Mullins). There will also be a large photo gallery to accompany it... A special thanks to Catherine for her great write-up. If you attend the HPLFF, and would like to share your thoughts, send 'em here. October 17: The HP Lovecraft Historical Society's, A Very Scary Solstice Dear Shoggoth on the Roof Fans, At last weekend's HPL Film Festival in Portland, the HP Lovecraft Historical Society unveiled it's newest creation, A Very Scary Solstice: the HPLHS Solstice Carol CD and Songbook. It features twenty-five of your favorite (and most hated) holiday songs hideously infused with the Cthulhu Mythos. Like A Shoggoth on the Roof, the CD features full orchestration and performances cast of professional singers and actors. The songbook features all the lyrics with exhaustive annotations of the strange origins of the carols and mythos tie-ins. Esteemed Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi contributed a preface with HPL's thoughts on the holidays. Hear I Saw Mommy Kissing Yog-Sothoth, It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fish-Men, Awake Ye Scary Great Old Ones, I'm Dreaming of a Dead City, Mi-Go We Have Heard on High and many more... Check out: http://www.cthulhulives.org/solstice and don't miss the FREE downloads of the MP3s for Great Old Ones Are Coming to Town and The Carol of the Olde Ones. Enjoy! Sean Branney October 17: Lemora w/director in Texas If your appetite to check out Richard Blackburn’s hard-to-see vampire film LEMORA: A CHILD’S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL has been whetted by Fangoria's retrospective in Fango #228 (now on sale) and you can’t wait for the Synapse Films DVD coming later this year—and you’re in Texas—catch the movie at a special screening at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Village in Austin, TX on Saturday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m. The movie, starring Cheryl (later “Rainbeaux”) Smith in her first starring role and Lesley Gilb, will be shown with director/co-writer/actor Blackburn in attendance. As a special treat, the feature will be preceded by episodes of the animated PLANET OF THE APES TV series, for which Blackburn did voiceover work! (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) October 17: Rhode Island horror fest sets schedule Remember when Fangoria said that every state seems like it’s having a genre fest this year? Well, Creature Corner has reported that the Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival has firmed up its slate of fright fare for its fourth annual event, taking place October 23-26. Among the movies showing at the Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway in Providence (appropriately enough, H.P. Lovecraft’s birthplace) are Stuart Gordon’s KING OF THE ANTS, Terry West’s FLESH FOR THE BEAST, a Japanese double bill of Takashi Miike’s ICHI THE KILLER and Higuchinsky’s UZUMAKI, a new print of MANIAC with director William Lustig in attendance, Lucio Fulci’s ZOMBIE and a restored print of Paul Wegener and Carl Boese’s classic 1920 silent chiller THE GOLEM, with live musical accompaniment, plus a local filmmakers’ showcase, a number of RI-produced shorts and a Lovecraft walking tour of the city. Awards will be given for Best Feature and Best Short, and there will also be contests like Best Costume and Best Shriek! Go here for more info. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) October 17: Sam Raimi Up for Spider-Man 3 & Evil Dead 4 Source: Ain't-It-Cool-News According to Ain't-It-Cool-News, Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 director Sam Raimi is committed to a third film about the wall-crawler, though that hasn't been official announced yet. Raimi apparently also said that he'd love to do a fourth "Evil Dead" film, the first three of which starred Bruce Campbell as Ash. (Thanks to http://www.comingsoon.net/) October 17: Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash Rumors True Source: Fangoria With New Line seeing the blockbuster potential of the Freddy vs. Jason franchise - it's earned almost $82 million domestically - rumors quickly spread that the studio might be considering adding Ash, from the "Evil Dead" films, to the mix. Ash was played by Bruce Campbell three times. Was it just a fanboy dream? Nope, it's true! Fangoria reports... FANGORIA has learned that New Line Cinema is seriously considering adding Ash (Bruce Campbell) to the inevitable FREDDY VS. JASON Round Two that the studio has in development. This is not some Internerd rumor, though the notion has been tabled out there in horror fandom for months. Sure, we’ve heard about other permutations for a follow-up to the blockbuster rumble (everything from FREDDY VS. JASON VS. LEATHERFACE to …VS. CHUCKY to …VS. MICHAEL), but the Ash scenario, evidently, is the only one that New Line is treating as a legitimate idea. (Thanks to http://www.comingsoon.net/) October 17: The Creature from the Black Lagoon weekend in Florida The Creature from the Black Lagoon returns to the Florida waterways he stalked as part of Creaturefest 2003, the third edition of this event, being held November 7-9 at the Wakulla Springs State Park just south of Tallahassee, FL. All three of the monster’s films—the original BLACK LAGOON, RETURN OF THE CREATURE and THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US—will be shown on an outdoor screen, along with the original THE BLOB and BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, and there will also be boat tours of the shooting locations (you can even take a swim where the Creature once lurked—if you dare!) and appearances by stars Julie Adams, Ginger Stanley and Creature performers Ricou Browning and Ben Chapman. Special VIP passes, which get you into all the movies and the cruise, plus a special dinner with the actors, are available. Click on the link above for more info. (Thanks to Tony Bridges) (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) Because of two separate family emergencies that occurred on Monday (Oct. 13), I will be behind in my correspondences and updates. I hope to resume regular updates this weekend. Look for several write-ups
of this past weekends H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival including photographs.
These will be forthcoming... I'm off to the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival! Regular updates will resume Tuesday, October 14. Hope to see many of you
there! Click here for H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival scheduling and DVD news for Edward Martin's adaptation of "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath". The premiere is now just days away! (Thanks to Edward Martin
III) Courtesy of FilmThreat.com: If you’re a horror fan, you’re aware of Tom Sullivan’s work. If you’re a horror geek, you worship it. Tom Sullivan is responsible for the gory effects resplendent in Sam (Spider-Man) Raimi’s classic The Evil Dead. The pencil in the ankle; the twitching, dismembered limbs; the wrist gnawing; the blood. Ahhh, the blood. And, of course, Sullivan was one-half (the other being Bart Pierce) of the primary team that designed and animated the pair of decomposing “Deadites” boiling away to mush and blood and bugs during the film’s climax. His "King Kong." Click here for a four part interview with The Evil Dead's FX man Tom Sullivan. Visit Tom Sullivan's official website here. (Thanks to http://www.filmthreat.com/) Do you plan to attend
the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival (read FilmThreat.com's short write-up
of the festival here)?
Hope to see many of
you there! DVD Brazil is now taking pre-orders for the upcoming region 0 release of "Beyond Re-Animator". Release date is scheduled for October 20, 2003. Price is set at $39.95 US. Click here for more. (Thanks to dvdbrazil.com) A brand new special edition will be available in France on October 14. It comes in a very nice digipack, on two discs and a 80 pages booklet! Studio Canal have remastered the original English track along with the French on in 5.1 Dolby Digital. The original stereo track will also be available. Like the Anchor Bay released in North America it will include the Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel and Bruce Campbell commentary track with optional French subs and the trailer. On the second disc you'll get a 30 minutes Making-Of, interviews with Raimi and the crew, bios and other goodies! (thanks to DevilDead.com) (Thanks to http://www.gorezone.net/) The final schedule is up on the official H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Check it out here! (Thanks to Andrew Migliore) Source: Sci-Fi Wire, The Famous Gary C. Brian Yuzna talked with Sci-Fi Wire about why it took so long to see Beyond Re-Animator (review), which is being shown on the Sci-Fi Channel tomorrow night! Read on for the story. "Brian Yuzna, who produced and directed the upcoming SCI FI Pictures original presentation Beyond Re-Animator, told SCI FI Wire that it wasn't just financial concerns that caused 13 years to pass between Re-Animator sagas. "I went through a lot of different ideas and took a lot of suggestions for a sequel, but there wasn't anything that really grabbed me," Yuzna said in an interview. "The idea that I kept coming back to was the notion of trapping the soul upon death and dealing with why zombies act so weird." At one point, Yuzna considered revisiting both of the central characters in Re-Animator and Bride of Re-Animator, Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) and Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs). That fell by the wayside when Yuzna realized Beyond Re-Animator would become a movie "about a couple of middle-aged doctors, when Re-Animator is really more about young doctors, medical students." Yuzna then developed a script in which an imprisoned Dr. West befriends Howard Philips (Jason Barry), a medic at the prison where he's incarcerated. Philips is an admirer of Dr. West's handiwork, and it's not long before zombies start acting weird again. Yuzna acknowledges that Combs is the key figure in the Re-Animator saga. "I've always seen Jeff as essential," the filmmaker said. "I knew we needed him and Dr. West. He was involved with noodling out the story and coming up with ideas [when ideas for a sequel were first bandied about more than a decade ago], but because there was such a long period of time where it lay fallow, he wasn't so much involved as we developed the version that we shot. Once the script went to him, Jeff certainly had a lot of ideas about how West should be treated, and a whole lot of his ideas are taken to heart because he is sort of the expert on West. I used our previous discussions. What we did with West, our interpretation of West, coincides with Jeffrey's." Beyond Re-Animator airs Oct. 4 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on the SCI FI Channel." (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) New York City’s Two Boots Pioneer Theater is hosting a series of classic horror films throughout October. Among the films playing the festival are Re-Animator and Evil Dead II. Other films making an appearance include Night of the Living Dead, Donnie Darko, Hellraiser and Stuart Gordon's new film King of the Ants. Click here for more info. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) Just in time for Halloween, Fango terrorizes bookshelves this week with FANGORIA’S 101 BEST HORROR MOVIES YOU’VE NEVER SEEN. Written by genre newcomer Adam Lukeman, this guidebook (published by Three Rivers Press) is a celebration of overlooked, undercelebrated and/or just plain obscure horror films from the past 30 years. It also features an introduction by editor Tony Timpone, critical analyses, taglines, rare pix, a DVD source list and Terror Trivia by managing editor Michael Gingold. For more info and free excerpts, go to www.besthorrors.com. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) October 3: Horror Channel
Survey Online If you head on over to the official Horror Channel website, you can take a survey and make your opinion count. With your help, you could have input on what goes on with the Horror Channel. Follow the link for everything. (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) Very Scary Productions is pleased to announce that a new trailer is now available for viewing. The trailer for the independent feature "London After Midnight", which was written & directed by Upstate New York Capital Region filmmaker Bruce G. Hallenbeck, can now be seen here. The story follows two paranormal investigators battling the forces of evil, including demons and satanic cults. The movie is currently in post-production and stars David Louis, Prudence Theriault, Peter Hughes and Amy Kerr. It is anticipated it will be completed by mid 2004. (Thanks to Jeff Kirkendall
- Editor & Associate Producer on "London After Midnight") Ivan Zuccon's films will have a special screening at this years Sitges Festival International de Cine (in Brigadoon, Spain) on December 5th at 7 pm. They will screen after a press conference sponsored by Imagen DEATH (Ivan's Spanish distributor). The press conference starts at 12 pm, and will center on Ivan's work. (Thanks to Ivan Zuccon) October 2: Third annual THING-Fest in late October THING-FEST
2003, the third annual weekend event celebrating John Carpenter’s
classic alien shocker, will take place October 24-26 in London, Ontario,
Canada. The program includes a matinee showing of the movie on Saturday,
Oct. 25, followed by a dinner at a local restaurant and a big after-party,
plus a pre-party the night before and exhibition and sales of prop pieces
from the film, including a section of the Norwegian helicopter rotor
blade that will be up on eBay that weekend. Autographed photos from
actor Joel (“Fuchs”) Polis will also be available. Click on
the link above for further details. October 2: EVIL DEAD/BEYOND
midnight show in VT Zombie terror invades Vermont as a double bill of Sam Raimi’s THE EVIL DEAD and Lucio Fulci’s THE BEYOND plays at midnight on Saturday, October 25. The event, sponsored by radio station 99.9 The Buzz (which will offer further info at its website here beginning October 11), will take place at Merrill’s Showcase, Williston Road in South Burlington. Newly remastered prints of both uncut gore classics will be shown, and prizes will be given away before the movies; tickets ($10 each) go on sale at 11:30 p.m. that evening. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) MEDIA RELEASE: Open Circle Theater presents The Horror in the Theater: an H.P. Lovecraft Triptych of Terror Open Circle Theater is pleased to present the premiere of a three new adaptations of classic tales by the acknowledged master of strange fiction, H.P. Lovecraft. From the theater that brought you last springs smash-hit production of Herbert West: Re-Animator. The three adapters and three director have worked to create three unique styles emboldened by the use of one basic set and one unified cast for all three tales. All of the creatures, horrors, gods and half-human abominations will be realized through the use of puppetry. The three stories are: The Dunwich Horror
- directed / adapted by Ron Sandahl From Beyond -
directed by Matt Fontaine / adapted by Lyam White The Haunter of the
Dark - directed & adapted by Rob D'Arc WHAT: The Horror in
the Theater: WHERE: Open Circle Theater, 429 Boren Ave N., Seattle, WA 98109 EVENTS: Thursday, Oct.
2 will be a special preview for arts organizations ADMISSION: $13 General
Admission (Thanks to Ron Sandahl) The first day (Thursday) of the HPLFF has now been scheduled, and the short film blocks are now up. Click here
for Thursdays schedule, and don't forget to check back for further updates! Click here
for the latest news on Edward Martin's adaptation of "The Dream-Quest
of Unknown Kadath". (Thanks to Edward Martin III) October 1: Forthcoming Terrors updates Several films on the
Forthcoming Terrors page have
been moved from post-production to the completed section. These films
include Derek M. Koch's "Casonetto's Last Song", Edward
Martin's animated feature "Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath",
Shawn Owens documentary "The Eldritch Influence" and
Giovanni Furore's "Pickman's Model". All of these films
will make an appearance at next months HPLFF. I've just added a picture of director Luigi Seviroli to his interview page. Check it out here. (Thanks to Luigi Seviroli) October 1: The Horror Channel interview Click here to read the Creature-corner.com interview with Nick Psaltos and Chris Apostle of the upcoming Horror Channel (October 31st, 2004). (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) |
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