(Thanks to Serge Rodnunsky)

October 30: Rare Re-Animator screening!

Stuart Gordon's cult classic, Re-Animator (Charles Band's Rare 35mm print), will screen along with Burial Ground and Charles Band's new film, Evil Bong! The screenings will take place at the Palace Theatre (2384 James Street, Syracuse NY) on November 10th at 11pm. Ticket price is just $8 for all three films!

(Thanks to Jeff Meyer)

October 29: Closet Space in the pages of Fango! ~ updated ~

Mel House's sends word that his film, Closet Space, is mentioned in the Terror Teletype section of Fangoria (issue # 258)! Look for a new Closet Space poster and trailer soon...

update: The Closet Space crew just booked their tables for the next two Fangoria Weekend of Horrors shows - January 5-7 in San Jose and February 23-25 in Chicago...

(Thanks to Mel House)

October 29: New Hellboy Animated review

Check it out here, courtesy of fangoria.com...

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

October 26: A letter from Arkham, Massachusetts!



Some time ago I sent a copy of Read Me a Story to horror legend Tom Sullivan (Evil Dead) and here for the first time is his account of it's arrival, and the blasphemous events that followed...

(Thanks to Tom Sullivan)

October 26: A Night of Horror announces "Best Scream Queen" award!

For Immediate Release:

Sydney's A Night of Horror Short Film Festival announces People magazine as a major sponsor.

Sydney, Australia, October 27, 2006 - A Night of Horror Short Film Festival announces People magazine as a major sponsor.

People magazine is offering a $3,000 cash prize to the winner of the festival's "Best Scream Queen" award.

The popularity of horror cinema has always relied on the boldness and sex appeal of its leading ladies. From Fay Wray in the original King Kong, through Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween to cult actresses such as Ingrid Pitt and Linnea Quigley.

A Night of Horror and People magazine want to honour this tradition by encouraging the next generation of horror actresses. In addition to the cash prize, the winning actress, along with several other finalists, will appear in the pages of People magazine.

The festival's call for submissions is currently open and the event is scheduled for March 23-25, 2007. More details can be found at: www.anightofhorror.com

(Thanks to Dean Bertram)

Strange Aeons, the first feature film from Maelstrom Productions, won two awards at the 2006 Tabloid Witch Awards (hosted by HollywoodInvestigator.com)! Actor Jerry Lloyd won for best supporting actor and Eric Morgret was an honorable mention for best director!

There will be a special screening of Strange Aeons (and all the award winners) at the Santa Monica Public Library, with attending actors and filmmakers participating in a follow-up Q&A. The screenings begin at 12 noon on December 9, 2006...

Director Eric Morgret is confirmed as a panelist. Jerry Lloyd has been invited but is unconfirmed at this time. Other possible attendees include writer K.L. Young and actors: Erick Robertson, Angela Grillo, and JD Lloyd, producers Marth Christensen and Rick Tillman...

Information about Strange Aeons and all the other winners can be found here!

(Thanks to Eric Morgret)

October 25: Temple adaptation seeks props!

Writer/director Edward Martin is looking for a diving helmet/suit for an upcoming adaptation of Lovecraft's The Temple... ~ We need this for a low budget amateur movie. We only have to put an actor in it and take a few still pictures, and we can do it right at your location. Should only take an hour, maybe two, tops. Promise thanks in the credit, link from the website, and a copy of the movie when it's done. We're in Portland, Oregon and we can travel a bit. Here's the site (we're just starting the project, so the page is a bit empty, but it'll be as full

(Thanks to Edward Martin III)

At the stroke of midnight, just as Halloween reveals itself, the first teaser/trailer for David Hohl's In Search of Lovecraft will appear on insearchoflovecraft.com!

The first cut of the film should be done by Halloween with FX work and the final cut being finished by the end of November. A January 2007 release is projected...

(Thanks to David Hohl)

October 24: Lovecraft's Nightmares are coming!



Dread Central reports that The Nightmares of Lovecraft figures will be hitting store shelves in November! Besides the previously announced Cthulhu, Dagon and Ghoul figures, there will also be several limited addition collectibles including a special black Cthulhu variant (see image) that will only be available through Diamond Comic re-sellers...

They are already listed as sold out on the official SOTA Toys site, so you may need a copy of the necronomcion to scare one up!

October 23: Ex Oblivione and Herbert West's Obsession updates!



Director Stuart "Strut" Glid sends word that the NTSC version of the Ex Oblivione DVD has been released! The new DVD contains additional special features, 5.1 Surround Audio and a very special Easter Egg! Price is $14.40 (includes shipping). The DVD can be purchased through the Shoggoth's Market!

A teaser trailer for Shoggoth Frames Pictures upcoming short, Herbert West's Obsession, has also been shot (more news on that soon) and the film will begin production in late December!

(Thanks to Strut Glid)

October 23: The Damned review...

A review for Tobe Hooper's The Damned Thing (from season 2 of the Masters of Horror) has surfaced over at Creature-corner.com (from the New York City Horror Film Festival screening).

Check it out here...

(Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/)

Looking for the most unusual Lovecraft related collectible ever? Well look no further...

Created by artist Anna Puchalski, the Necronomiconey (Bunny of the Abyss) is a limited edition (of 50) figure that's name is a combination of Necronomicon and coney (which is an ancient word for rabbit)...

October Toys provided the sculpt and cast with paint being handled by Angel Devil studios. The tentacles are soft and bendable...

The figures will debut at the Chiller Theatre Halloween Weekend, and will be sold at a special price (while supplies last). After that, each one will run you $60 plus shipping. Additional Necronomiconey (each one is different) photos will be available November 1st over at the official Angel Devil studio site...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

Ray Zablocki's Binding Silence will screen at the Peter Norton Symphony Space's Tim Burton Film Festival tomorrow! Binding Silence screens directly after Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands which starts at 5 pm. Ticket information can be found at symphonyspace.org...

The previously announced NY Horror Film Festival screening takes place on Sunday at 3 pm. Click here for details...

(Thanks to Ray Zablocki)

More good news from Guillermo del Toro regarding his dream project, At the Mountains of Madness...

In an interview with IGN, del Toro said that, "If it comes to fruition I'd rather do that immediately while the iron is hot. But it all depends on so many factors - creative, personal - that every time I predict what I'm going to do next, I fail."

He also spoke of the challenges that the Lovecraft's source material presents, "The albino penguins, the gigantic city ... The hard thing about that novel is it's very much a record of an expedition, so the narrative is brilliant in that it's a little bit dry but it's not character-based…There are many characters that you don't know - you don't even know who the hell the expedition is [made up of] until you have it referenced in another book of Lovecraft's."

If Madness does indeed get a green light, del Toro would like to start work it as soon as Hellboy 2: The Golden Army is finished...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

October 18: Read Me a Story reviewed!

Wormwood Chronicles resident philm phreak, Dark Starr, reviews my short film Read Me a Story here!

(Thanks to Dark Starr)

October 18: Hellboy: Sword of Storms on Cartoon Network!

The following information was in my festival notes, but it was misplaced, so Dread Central beat me to it... Sword of Storms, the first of two animated Hellboy films, will premiere on Cartoon Network on Saturday, October 28th at 9:30 pm. The film stars the voices of Ron Perlman and Selma Blair... The story, written by Tad Stone and Mike Mignola, involves a professor who opens a forbidden scroll and becomes possessed by the Japanese spirits of Thunder and Lightning. When Hellboy goes to investigate for the BPRD, he's drawn into a world of Japanese legends and monsters come to life...

(Thanks to Tad Stone and Dread Central)

October 18: Dunwich revisited

Page Street Studios reports (via their MySpace page) that Dunwich will go back to the editing bay one more time so they can tighten up the film a bit. Once this is completed, Dunwich will be unleashed on the masses!

In the meantime, Crawling Chaos Pictures excellent short film, Experiment 17, is now available on the Page Street Studios MySpace page!

(Thanks to Page Street Studios)

October 18: Bruce Campbell visits Evil Dead: The Musical!

Bruce Campbell will be attending the November 2nd performance of Evil Dead: the Musical! He will do a "Talk Back" Q & A session afterwards…

Click here for details!

(Thanks to Evil Dead: The Musical)

October 18: The Death of Poe on DVD

Mark Redfield's The Death of Poe will be released as a 3 DVD set from Alpha New Cinema. The set streets November 21st... The film, a combination Poe's final days with imagery from his classic tales, was shot on location in Baltimore and Virginia. The film premiered at Baltimore's Charles Theater last week. Besides directing the film, Redfield also co-wrote the script with Stuart Voytilla. The cast includes Kevin G. Shinnick, Jennifer Rouse, Tony Tsendeas, Kim Hannold and J.R. Lyston. The disc specs are: Disc One: ~ The Death of Poe feature film ~ Audio commentary by Redfield ~ Making-of featurette

Disc Two:

~ The Avenging Conscience: 1914 film by D.W. Griffith based on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," with new score by Jennifer Rouse
~ The Raven: 1915 film biography of Poe, also with a new Rouse score
~ Audio commentary on The Raven by Redfield
~ Poe's Baltimore travelogue
~ The Haunting of the Poe House and Grave documentary

Bonus Audio CD:

~ POEms and Tales performed by Redfield:
1. Danse Macabre (2:39)
2. The Raven (9:41)
3. The Cask of Amontillado (13:19)
4. The Haunted Palace (2:09)
5. The City in the Sea (3:04)
6. Hop Frog (24:26)
7. The Tell-Tale Heart (13:39)
8. The Conqueror Worm (2:19)
9. Annabel Lee (2:46)

Retail price is $14.98! You can visit the official Death of Poe site here...

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

October 18: Closet Space interview…

Zombo's Closet of Horror caught up with Closet Space director Mel House recently and they discussed the film (and why horror fans will like it), the trials and tribulations of guerilla moviemaking and future projects (including Closet Space 2). Click here for more…

A new poster, trailer, and interviews with the writer and director will be up on the Closet Space website and Myspace page soon…

(Thanks to Mel House)

October 18: The future of Hellboy?

Hellboy vs. Universal's Monsters? It could happen according to Guillermo del Toro…

At last weekends New York Film Festival, del Toro revealed that he would love to see Hellboy take on the Universal Monsters if the franchise continues (Universal owns the rights for Hellboy 2). "We talked briefly about this because I think it is such a great possibility for the future, to do that either in the animated universe or in another universe we create just for that. I remember seeing the test footage for the animated Frankenstein they were making years ago. Black & white... it is just spine tingling. Your hair stands on an end because it was of such beauty…"

(Thanks to Dread Central)

October 18: More Mist

More details concerning Frank Darabont's adaptation of The Mist were released by Thomas Jane at Screamfest recently, "The script is done," Jane told fangoria at Screamfest, "It has been for a bit now, and it looks like it might be over at Dimension..."

When asked if Darabont will lens the film in black and white (as had been rumored in the past), Jane says, "Nah, this is gonna be all-color and pretty amazing. I can't wait..."

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

October 18: Fangoria dives into Dark Waters

Check out fangoria.com's review for Mariano Baino's Dark Waters here…

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

October 18: The Damned Thing premier date

Tobe Hooper's The Damned Thing (from the second season of Masters of Horror) will air October 27, 2006 at 9 pm on Showtime. The episode will debut at the New York City Horror Film Festival October 20th at 10 pm…

The air date for Stuart Gordon's episode, The Black Cat (starring Jeffrey Combs as Edgar Allan Poe) has not been released…

(Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/ and http://www.fangoria.com/)

Fugue Films, the talented filmmakers behind The Music of Erich Zann, have a new home on the web! The site contains news, stills and video (from Zann and other productions)...

(Thanks to Fugue Films)

Ray Zablocki's award winning short film Binding Silence (winner of the Brown Jenkin award at last weekends HPLFF) will screen tomorrow in the 12 pm short block of the 2006 Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and the Supernatural! The festival takes place at The Plaza Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas...

Full schedule and festival information can be found here.

(Thanks to Ray Zablocki)

October 12: The Mist casting news

Fangoria.com reports that actor Thomas Jane (The Punisher) will star in writer/director Frank Darabont's forthcoming adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist. King's horror novella revolves around an eclectic group of people trapped inside a small-town supermarket in Maine, while a mysterious mist, and the fearsome creatures it hides, advances upon them...

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

Writer/director David Schmidt passed along a few images from the currently lensing House of Black Wings! The film, a Lovecraftian ghost story, is 3 weeks into a 9 week schedule, and production updates can be found on the Sword & Cloak Blog...

(Thanks to David Schmidt)

October 11: Closet Space 2 happening!

Director Mel House announced (via a MySpace bulletin) that a sequel to Closet Space is in the works for 2007! Production could start by October...

The first film, which is still in post-production, involves five 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?

October 11: Dark Waters DVD review...



Dread Central gives the new NoShame Dark Waters DVD a glowing review. Check it out here...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

Another H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival has come and gone (I'm already planning for the next one!), and I've returned with my sanity mostly intact (I think I said that last year as well!)... Highlights for me included the Dead Birds screening on the main screen (with director Alex Turner in attendance), del Toro's message to Portland, the animated Hellboy footage/discussion and some incredibly inventive and original short films (by some very talented filmmakers). Some of the standout shorts included Asleep in the Deep by Paul von Stoetzel, The Other Gods by Mike Boas, Binding Silence by Raymond Zablocki, From Beyond (stop-motion madness from Michael Granberry) and Christopher Marston's The Music of Erich Zann. Oh, and Barbara Crampton was lovely as well...

See you next year!

October 10: HPLFF, first thoughts from friends!

Friends of Unfilmable.com, Derek M. Koch and Michael Granberry, have each written down their HPLFF memories for all to see! Derek's can be found on his MySpace blog (in three parts: 1, 2 and 3) and Michael's can be seen on his Red Hatchet Films blog here...

If you attended this years HPLFF and want to share your thoughts, send them here!

(Thanks to Derek M. Koch and Michael Granberry)

October 10: Dead Birds sequel announced!

Alex Turner divulged a little info about the sequel (not prequel as previously announced) during his Q&A after the HPLFF screening of Dead Birds. The sequel is titled The Stone House and will take place in Afghanistan during the year 2003. Nothing else was mentioned, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before the web with be buzzing with news...

(Thanks to Alex Turner)

October 10: Guerrilla Productions, what's next?

Guerrilla Productions, the fine folks behind Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and Innsmouth Legacy, have several new Lovecraft related short film projects in the works including Memory, The Temple and Shock Troops...

Memory is based on HPL's short prose poem and will receive a beautiful treatment in an animated adaptation of a distant time and place beyond the memory of man...

The live-action short film The Temple (which has never been adapted before) follows two descents: a German submarine's descent to the bottom of the ocean and its sole inhabitant's descent into madness...or is this the same journey?

Shock Troops revolves around the time of his awakening. Beasts are spread across the land like liquid shadow, and men fall in their wake. Wars have always be fought -- won or lost -- against other men. This time, however, men are not fighting men. They are fighting a god...

These projects are all in development (I've read the screenplay for Shock Troops and it rocks!), so expect a great deal of news in the coming months!

(Thanks to Edward Martin III)

October 10: Lovecraft's Pillow director interviewed!

Mark Steensland, director of Lovecraft's Pillow (which screened at the HPLFF), was interviewed last Friday by Dread Central, and in the interview he discusses where he got the idea for Lovecraft's Pillow (see below), why he likes horror, and why he almost got arrested while making his short film Sucker...

In regards to Lovecraft's Pillow Mark Steensland had this to say, "I'm a big HPL fan, and so I picked up this book by a French writer named Houellebecq and found it had a very interesting intro by Stephen King in which he recounts once coming up with an idea for a story while in Providence about finding Lovecraft's pillow in a pawn shop. He never actually wrote the story. But he goes on to say, "If you would like to try your hand at it, Reader, I bequeath it to you." So that was the start of the idea."

Check out the rest of the interview here!

(Thanks to Dread Central)

October 10: The Call of Cthulhu wins!

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's adaptation of The Call of Cthulhu won the best feature award at this years Eerie Horror Film Festival! Congrats guys!

(Thanks to Eerie Horror Film Festival)

October 10: Marebito director in person!

Takashi Shimizu, director of The Grudge and Marebito, will be on hand to sign autographs at Dark Delicacies (4213 West Burbank Boulevard) on Sunday, October 15 beginning at 2 pm...

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

October 10: Hellboy game still in the works

Dread Central reports that the Hellboy game (for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 with creative input from Mike Mignola) announced earlier in the year is still in the works despite a lack of recent updates. Whether the 2007 release date will be achieved has not been determined...

New screen grabs can be found here.

(Thanks to Dread Central)

October 9: House of Black Wings needs extras!

For Immediate Release:

Here is your chance to be in a movie!

October 10th at 7pm we will be shooting a "rock concert" scene for our new movie - the Lovecraftian ghost story
House of Black Wings and we need Extras to be in the audience! Here is your chance to point to a DVD in the
store and say - "Hey, I'm in that movie!" Extras work always looks great on an actor's resume too.

Plus - we're giving away Free DVDs as door-prizes! Good movies, hand-picked by the director!

Shooting will be at at:
Loyola University Chicago
6525 N. Sheridan Rd.
Straight East from the Loyola El Stop on the Red Line.

7:00 pm at the Finnegan Auditorium - Damen Hall.

(That's the modern skyscraper just South of the building with the dome on top at the center of campus)

Please drag along friends, family and strangers off the street, and come dressed like you're going to a Rock Concert!

For more information on the movie, check out the House of Black Wings pages at:
http://www.swordandcloak.com/blackwings/hobw-main.htm

So far this movie is turning out really great, and with your help we can make it *fantastic*!

(Thanks to David Schmidt)

October 4: Come one! Come all! Witness the mysteries of Dunwich!

Crawling Chaos Pictures and Page Street Studios are proud to announce that Dunwich is now available on DVD! A special festival only early release of the Dunwich DVD will be available this weekend at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Selling for only $10 the disc includes:

- the remastered edition of the film with improved audio and video
- a deleted scene
- a blooper reel
- bonus award winning short film Experiment 17
- behind the scenes featurette on Experiment 17

Dunwich t-shirts will also be available at the festival for only $10. Both the t-shirt and the DVD will be available to buy from the official website www.dunwichthemovie.com once the festival is over.

October 3: First look: Room for Error!

Screening at this years HPLFF (Friday Oct. 6th at 9:30 pm), Room for Error centers around a man named John who is obsessed with finding a nameless city that haunts his dreams. In the center of this wonderful city is a Tower, his home. Researching the Occult, John believes he has finally created a magical gateway, which will transport him to this place of dreams. Using his girlfriend as a sacrifice, John is disappointed when the spell doesn’t work as planned and his house is surrounded by the police. A negotiator tries to convince John to give himself up. John realizes where the spell failed: it calls for more blood! Shooting the negotiator, his blood is added to the mystical circle and the room is engulfed in flames--John gets his wish. The city however, is not the paradise he had envisioned and John realizes too late his terrible mistake.

Running about 8 minutes, the film was written (along with Chris Moore) and directed (along with Robert Rundle) by Jason Voss (The Vessel) and stars Lance Holt, David Alan Graf and Sadie Katz...

The official site contains behind-the-scenes images, production stills, cast and crew info, clips and more!

(Thanks to Jason Voss)

October 2: Dare you look upon the Other Gods!



The a trailer for "H.P. Lovecraft's The Other Gods" is now online. The animated film that many thought lost to history will be screening this coming weekend at the HPLFF in Portland, Oregon...

Get a sneak peek at the all new restoration by visiting the Mad Dog Movies MySpace, or if you prefer, watch the trailer on YouTube...

If you'd like to find out more about this classic of the silent era, visit the official site here. Keith Handy, the composer for The Other Gods, also has some behind-the-scenes scoring notes up on his blog...

(Thanks to Mike Boas)

October 2: We wish you a scary solstice!



For Immediate Release:

An Even Scarier Solstice is a sequel to our strangely popular A Very Scary Solstice. This year we've assembled better musicians, more singers, and 23 new songs of holiday horror.

The CD features a cast of more than 30 professional singers with each number beautifully arranged and fully orchestrated by Troy Sterling Nies (composer for the HPLHS film The Call of Cthulhu). Styles range from rockabilly to middle-eastern to grandly gothic and just plain weird. We've even set Lovecraft's poem, "A Brumalian Wish" to music to create (we think) the world's first original Lovecraftian Christmas carol.

The sing-along songbook features a handy pronunciation guide, an introduction by celebrated mythos author Ramsey Campbell, and the full lyrics to all of the carols, complete with ample footnotes teeming with bizarre trivia about the carols and their underlying mythos connections!

Click here for more...

(Thanks to Troy Nies)

October 1: New Binding Silence screening in NYC!

Just announced, Raymond Zablocki's Binding Silence will screen at this years New York City Horror Film Festival! The NYCHFF runs from Oct. 18th through Oct. 22nd and will be held at the Tribeca Cinemas (located at 54 Varick street)...

Click here for details!

(Thanks to Raymond Zablocki)

Don't forget, the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival is next weekend! A full schedule of guest appearances and screenings is now available...

October 1: Herbert West's Obsession!

Strut Glid and Shoggoth Frames Pictures have announced their follow-up to Ex Oblivione! The film, titled Herbert West's Obsession, is being written and a teaser trailer is scheduled for October 5th...

More as it becomes available!

(Thanks to Strut Glid)

A reminder...

October 1: Lovecraft's Night of Horror call for entries!

For Immediate Release:

A Night of Horror Short Film Festival Announces Call for Submissions – and Special H. P. Lovecraft Category

Sydney, Australia, September 27, 2006 - A Night of Horror Short Film Festival will announce its official call for submissions next week. However, because of the relevancy of the festival’s special H. P. Lovecraft category, early notification is being given exclusively to Unfilmable.com.

The festival, which will be held in Sydney, Australia, from March 23-24, 2007, aims to promote independent filmmakers working in the horror genre from both Australia and abroad. It is operated by the Sydney based film company Lovecraft 21C Productions.

A Night of Horror aims to screen as many and varied films as possible. The festival’s organizers believe that the horror genre is the great equalizer of the filmmaking world, with some of the genre’s most memorable and influential films - from Night of the Living Dead, through Halloween, to The Blair Witch Project - being made on small budgets. In the words of festival director Lisa Mitchell, "We want to see and promote films from all budget levels. We don’t care if your budget was $100 or $100,000. As long as you’ve made a scary, atmospheric, or shockingly funny horror short then it’s in with a chance!"

Films submitted for consideration must be 30 minutes or under, but there is no restriction to the year that they were completed. Those films, which are selected for screening at the festival, will compete for several awards and prizes, in the following three categories:

1: Short Horror Films

2: Short Horror Animations

3: Short Films Inspired by the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft

Since he was a teenager, festival co-director and filmmaker Dean Bertram has been near obsessed with Lovecraft’s writings and the screen adaptations of his work. Under Bertram's direction, the festival has incorporated the special Lovecraft category in an effort to encourage filmmakers who have been similarly inspired, and to offer them the opportunity of having their work screened in Australia.

More details about A Night of Horror Short Film Festival are available at: www.anightofhorror.com

(Thanks to Dean Bertram)

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