October
31: Exclusive Halloween Premiere! The Dunwich
Horror trailer goes live!
The trailer for Richard
Griffin's feature-length adaptation of H.P.
Lovecraft's masterpiece of supernatural terror,
The
Dunwich Horror, is now live! Production
on the film began in July 2007 and is expected
to premiere in late Spring of 2008...
You can summon it here,
If you dare!
(Thanks to Richard Griffin)
October 31: Do you hear Black Wings?
According
to David Schmidt's official blog, the rough
cut for his Lovecraftian Ghost inspired feature
film House
of Black Wings is finished! Pick-up
shots for the film are currently being shot
while post-production continues. Expect many
more updates as the film creeps and crawls
towards completion!
About the film: After a tragic act of violence
cuts short her music career, Kate Stone is
returning to a city full of ex-fans and ex-friends.
Taking shelter with her last friend, a struggling
artist named Robyn Huck, the two women work
to restore the aging courtyard apartment building
Robyn has inherited. But a terrible secret
infests the venerable structure, and soon
Kate will be haunted by horrific dreams, sinister
apparitions, and the sounds of something moving
in the walls. She will be dragged into a confrontation
not only with her own dark past, but the unspeakable
nightmare that lurks beyond the walls!
(Thanks
to David Schmidt)
October 31: Scott Free produces Poe
Hollywood
juggernauts Ridley and Tony Scott are set
to produce an updated take on Edgar Allan
Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. The film
will begin production early next year with
Michael (Six Feet Under) Cuesta directing
a script by Dave (Doom) Callaham. Casting
is currently underway on the $20 million project...
(Thanks to Dread
Central and http://www.fangoria.com/)
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Happy
Halloween everyone! The trailer for
Richard Griffin's The Dunwich
Horror will go live at 9pm tonight,
exclusively on Unfilmable.com!
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October
31: Necronomicon found in Ohio!
Fangoria.com
got an exclusive first look at Book of
the Dead: Necromancer which is
currently in production from Independent
filmmaker John Case. Production on the film
began in July in Obetz, Ohio (near Columbus)
and will continue through the end of the
year...
Produced
by John's Danger Case Productions and co-director
(and special makeup artist) Ken Moss's PondunkvilleFxMonsters,
the film features mostly local cast and
crew. John told fangoria.com, "We're
pretty much shooting on the go. We're being
very creative in what we're doing to get
the movie made."
The
story revolves around an evil sorceress
who is raising an army of the undead after
being released from an ancient Egyptian
puzzlebox (a more detailed synopsis can
be found here).
"It's a unique take on zombies,"
John remarks on how his ghouls use an unusual
method of transportation, "I figured
if they can come up through the ground in
a cemetery, why can't they travel that way,
too?"
The
cast includes Lance Predmore, Shannon O’Keefe,
Sal Lizard, Chuck Lamb and model Anastasia
Heonis...
The
official site (which can be found here)
contains cast and crew info, storyboards,
the synopsis, fx behind-the-scenes, still
shots and more!
(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/)
October
31: New Read Me a Story review
"It's one of the few films I can
think of that works just as well on Mother's
Day as on Halloween."
-
Bruce G. Hallenbeck
Writer/director
Bruce G. Hallenbeck (London After Midnight)
reviews Read Me a Story (courtesy
of radioalbany.com) just in time for Halloween!
Check
it out here...
(Thanks
to Bruce G. Hallenbeck)
October
31: Colour from the Dark trailer
in the works!
Ivan
Zuccon has informed me that the official
trailer for Colour
from the Dark is now being finished!
The film, an adaptation of The Colour
Out of Space, stars Debbie Rochon and
Michael Segal...
Stay
tuned for details!
(Thanks to Ivan Zuccon)
October 27: Del Toro speaks of Madness...
It
looks like the recent At the Mountains
of Madness announcements may have been
a little premature. Here's what Guillermo
told shocktillyoudrop.com
when asked if Madness would be his
next project...
"I
wish I knew, but Universal has acquired
it, which is a great thing because it was
in limbo, and I have, together with Michael,
self-financed the designs and maquettes
and everything, but we'll see. It's R-rated,
it's expensive and it doesn't have a happy
ending. I think that big-scale horror, big
tentpole horror, which you used to have
with 'Alien,' 'The Shining,' 'The Exorcist'
before everyone thought horror needs to
be this or that and pre-conceptualized,
I think big tentpole like that should be
back at some point in life, so I'm patiently
waiting my turn. If I had the freedom to
choose and the chance to hold it until its
done, I'd do 'Mountains' right away, but
what I learned in the horrible years in
between 'Cronos' and 'Mimic' and 'Mimic'
and 'Devil's Backbone' is that if I did
that, it takes me four years to get a movie
off the ground, and it never happened in
the order..."
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
October
27: Nightmare Factory animated trailer
An animated promotional trailer for Fox
Atomics graphic novel, The Nightmare
Factory can be seen over at Dread
Central. The trailer, based on the story
Dr. Locrian's Asylum, is just one
of the stories adapted from the works of
weird author Thomas Ligotti...
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
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7
more days until the world premiere
of The Dunwich Horror trailer!
The trailer will go live on Halloween
day exclusively on Unfilmable.com
(here)!
Stay tuned for details ~
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October 24: Dunwich looking for volunteers!
For Immediate Release:
The feature length
adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich
Horror is looking for extras this Saturday
& Sunday.
We
are looking for all ages, sizes, shapes
and colors.
If
you're interested, please send them a message
and they'll give you all the information
you'll need to be part of of this twisted
piece of cinema!
You can contact them through their official
MySpace page here...
(Thanks
to www.myspace.com/graveyardrotthemovie)
October 24: The Arcanum finds it's
leader!
Dread Central reports
that Randall Wallace (Braveheart
and Pearl Harbor writer) has been
hired to direct Arcanum for Gold
Circle! The film is based on the novel by
Thomas Wheeler and revolves around Arthur
Conan Doyle as he teams up with H.P. Lovecraft,
Harry Houdini and voodoo priestess Marie
Laveau to fight a supernatural force that
threatens to bring the world to its knees...
Watch
this space for more!
(Thanks to Dread
Central)
October 24: Hellboy 2 site launches
The official site
for Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
is alive!
Check it out here...
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
October 24: Hellboy vs. the Universal Monsters?
According to bloody-disgusting.com,
there are rumors that Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.
may share a film with Universal's classic
monsters!
Click
here
for more!
(Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)
October 24: Evil Head trailer online!
The
teaser trailer for Doug Sakmann's latest
is now online! Doug's previous films include
The XXXorcist and Re-Penetrator...
Check out the Evil Head trailer here!
(Thanks to Doug Sakmann)
October 24: The
Damned Thing review
Dread Central's review for Tobe Hooper's
The Damned Thing (from a story by
Ambrose Bierce) can be found here...
...fangoria.com's review is here.
(Thanks to Dread
Central and http://www.fangoria.com/)
October 24: House
of Usher first look
Fangoria.com got an
update from director David DeCoteau on his
adaptation of Poe's The House of Usher
including a first look at the film.
House of Usher is the second Poe
film DeCoteau has made for here!
TV, the first being The Raven
(now airing)...
The film wrapped on October 15th, and stars
Frank Mentier, Jaimyse Haft, Michael Cardelle,
Jack Carlisle [pictured] and Jill Jacobson...
(Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/)
October 24: More Evil Dead remake
talk...
Here's what Sam Raimi
told bloody-disgusting.com about the proposed
Evil Dead remake...
"Currently don't have a plan for
EVIL DEAD, Ive talked about finding a young
filmmaker to re-imagine or remake it at
some point. It came out as a 16 mm, it was
a blow up to 35 - we only had 60 prints,
no one ever saw it in theaters."
he goes on to say [asRobert Tapert suggested
it to him], "Why don't we make a
big screen movie with really great actors,
a really great director, real camera and
a great soundtrack? A new filmmaker can
really do a great job. But since we’ve
said it publicly we haven't spent any time
looking for people it has all been talk.
But wed still like to do that at some point."
(Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)
October 13: Whisperer teaser online!
The
teaser trailer for The HP Lovecraft Historical
Society's The Whisperer in Darkness
(Quicktime format) is now online!
Check
it out here!
(Thanks
to Sean Branney)
October
12: Alternate Cool Air artwork!
Ran
across new poster artwork (the image on
the left) for Albert Pyun's Cool Air
adaptation while looking for information
on his latest film, From Beyond!
No word yet on whether From Beyond
is Lovecraft inspired, but the synopsis
is a radical departure from the original
story; A group of scientists are gathered
to stop Lucifer and his demons from escaping
from hell into our world. The only reason
I see that there might be a Lovecraft connection
(aside from the title) is that both Cool
Air and From Beyond were written
by frequent Pyun collaborator Cynthia Curnan.
Cool Air stars Morgan Weisser, Crystal
Laws Green as Dr. Shockner, Virginia Dare,
Norbert Weisser and Virginia Dare Paulin.
About the film: A run of bad luck forces
Baxter, a struggling screenwriter, to move
into an isolated boarding house. He soon
discovers that something is quite wrong
at Hayward house, and the source of the
evil is seeping down the stairs from the
room of the mysterious Dr. Shockner...
(Thanks to http://www.nwfilmstudios.com/)
October 12: Evil Dead UE details!
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Dread
Central gathered together the cover
art and DVD features for the upcoming
Evil Dead: Ultimate Edition
DVD from Anchor Bay...
Features
include:
Disc One:
~
One by One We Will Take You: The Untold
Saga of The Evil Dead (new featurette)
~ Audio commentary by writer/director
Raimi and producer Robert Tapert
Disc Two:
~
The Evil Dead: Treasures from the
Cutting Room Floor: new collection
of reconstructed and restored deleted
scenes
~ Audio commentary by star Bruce Campbell
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Disc Three:
~ Life After Death: The Ladies of The
Evil Dead: new featurette with Ellen
Sandweiss, Betsy Baker and Theresa Tilly
~ The Ladies of The Evil Dead Meet Bruce
Campbell: new chat between Sandweiss,
Baker, Tilly and Bruce
~ Unconventional: new featurette in
which cast and crew discuss horror conventions
and more
~ At the Drive-In: new no-holds-barred
Q&A with a drive-in audience of
hardcore fans
~ Reunion Panel: new featurette spotlighting
the once-in-a-lifetime gathering at
Chicago's Flashback Weekend
~ Discovering The Evil Dead: featurette
on The Evil Dead's British home video
release and its place in the "Video
Nasties" debate
~ Makeup test
~ Trailer
~ TV spots
~ Still gallery
~ Poster/memorabilia gallery |
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
October 12: New Cthulhu review
Creep-a-Go-Go gives
Daniel
Gildark and Grant Cogswell's Cthulhu
a very favorable review here...
(Thanks to www.myspace.com/lady_lovecraft)
October 11: The Crimson Robe in New
York City!
Fresh
off it's HPLFF screening, Russell Welch's
The Crimson Robe will next screen
at the New
York City Horror Film Festival (Friday,
October 26th), then at the International
Student Film Festival of Hollywood (Friday,
November 16th)...
(Thanks
to Russell Welch)
October
11: Cthulhu wins Brown Jenkin!
Daniel Gildark
and Grant Cogswell's Cthulhu won
a Brown Jenkin award (created by Arkham
Studio's Bryan Moore) as one of the best
of fest at the HPLFF!
Unfilmable.com
would like to congratulate Daniel and Grant
on winning the award!
(Thanks to Daniel Gildark)
Did you attend the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival?
Want to share your experiences/reviews/thoughts?
If so, send them here!
October 11: HPLFF 2008, first thoughts!
Writer/director Derek M. Koch (Cash Only,
Casonetto's Last Song) has
written his annual review of the H.P. Lovecraft
Film Festival! Derek's review can be found
You can check out Derek's HPLFF review here
(pics from the fest can be found here)!
(Thanks
to Derek M. Koch)
October
11: Stuart Gordon's Autopsy!
Stuart
Gordon will adapt Michael (The
Colour Out of Time) Shea's The
Autopsy for the third season of Masters
of Horror (now called Fear Itself).
The story has been described as using many
of Lovecraft's conventions...
Looks
as though House of Re-Animator
will not go the Masters of Horror
route...
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
October
11: The Crimson Robe one-sheet!
Here's a first look at the official poster
for Russell Welch's The Crimson Robe!
The film screened at this past weekend's
HPLFF...
(Thanks
to Russell Welch)
October
11: The Dunwich Horror interviews!
The
Dunwich Horror director/co-writer Richard
Griffin, Ted Marr (co-producer/co-writer)
and Sarah Nicklin (lead actress) were interviewed
recently by Kryptographik (a trans-continental
podcast)! Among the topics discussed, the
filming of their adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's
The Dunwich Horror...
Check
it out here...
(Thanks
to Richard Griffin)
October
11: A Night of Horror still needs your Lovecraft
films!
For
Immediate Release:
Late
Deadline for entries - December 3 (postmarked)
This
year the festival is calling for:
Feature
films, Shorts, Animations, Short films inspired
by H. P. Lovecraft and Horror-themed music
videos
Regular
deadline: October 5
Late deadline: December 3
Final deadline (Withoutabox): December 17
Films
selected to screen at the festival compete
for several thousand dollars worth of cash
and prizes thanks to our generous sponsors,
including Kodak, Atlab, People Magazine
and Starz Entertainment.
A
selection of films from the 2008 festival
will also tour nationally and internationaly!
For
more info visit:
www.anightofhorror.com
Or
enter through:
www.withoutabox.com
(Thanks
to Dean Bertram)
October
11: Upcoming Re-Penetrator
screenings
For
Immediate Release:
2007
Halloween Screenings - More info TBA
October
9th – 11pm - Long Island
Mr Beery's (4019 Hempstead Turnpike, Bethpage
NY)
October
14th & 28th - Oregon
Samurai Duck (980 Oak St, Eugene, OR 97401)
October
23rd - Brooklyn
Lucky 13 Saloon (273 13th Street at 5th
Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn NY)
October
28th - NYC
Beauty Bar (231 East 14th St (Btwn 2nd and
3rd ave), New York, NY)
XXXorcist and Re-Penetrator
screening
Zombie Beauty Pageant w/makeup from NYCZombieCrawl.com
October
31st - Maryland
Sharky’s (2072 Somerville Rd., Annapolis,
MD 21401)
XXXorcist and Re-Penetrator
screening
Live Suspensions and Human Tug-O-War
Strip For Pain: America's Most Dangerous
Game Show
www.repenetrator.com
www.thexxxorcist.com
(Thanks
to Joanna Angel)
October
11: More Pit and the Pendulum screenings
There
are two screenings for Marc Lougee's stop-motion
animated The Pit and the Pendulum
this weekend at the Bell Con 2007 (Bellingham,
WA) and Tokyo International Film Festival,
Oct. 10-19...
Other
recently announced screenings include:
ANIMA
Festival, Cordoba, Argentina, Oct.
Monsterama / Thrill ville, El Cerrtito,
CA, Oct. 18
Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Oct. 19-25
HEAD TRAUMA North American Tour, Oct. 20
Sacramento Horror Film Festival, Sacramento,
CA, Oct. 19-21
10.22 Media International Short Horror Film
Festival, Kitchener, ON, Oct. 25-27
Schoharie Scary Horror Film Festival, Schoharie,
NY, Oct. 26-28
S.N.O.B. Film Festival, Concord, MA
Big Bear Lake Horror Film Festival, Big
Bear Lake, CA, Nov. 2-3
(Thanks
to Marc Lougee)
October
10: No politics for Dr. West?
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Jeffrey
Combs spoke with Sci
Fi Wire recently about House
of Re-Animator, and the
bad news is that it's no closer to
happening that is was years ago...
"The
latest idea is too on the nose, because
it's about a vice president who has
a heart attack and dies, which is
terrible, because he runs the country,
and a kind of Karl Rove-ian character
brings Herbert to the White House
to revive him," Combs tells
Sci Fi Wire, "All is well
for a little while, and then, of course,
havoc has its day. A lot of people
they took the idea to didn't want
to touch it. And, of course, the real
power in it would be to get it out
before they are out of power."
Not
a fan of blending Re-Animator
with political commentary, Combs goes
on to say, "I'm as outraged
as the next guy about what's going
on in the country, but I think we
can be less on-the-nose about it and
still make the same points. But Stuart
is rather tenacious, so he may still
get his way someday."
No mention is made about whether Stuart
Gordon is still pursuing the Masters
of Horror route for the film...
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(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
October
10: Whisperer in Darkness DVD announced!
Matt Hundley's sends word that the DVD for
his feature length adaptation of The
Whisperer in Darkness will street around
October 20th. Just in time for Halloween!
Watch this space for details!
(Thanks
to Matt Hundley)
October
10: Lovecraft on the stage!
The
Open Circle Theater in Seattle is presenting
Dreams in the Witch House, a collection
of four live-action presentations, in honor
of their 15th anniversary!
The
four productions contained in Dreams
in the Witch House are:
The
Picture in the House: A young man enters
a supposedly deserted abode, only to discover
that it is inhabited by horror beyond his
imagining!
Nyarlathotep: A brooding misery creeps
into turn-of-the-century Prague on the heels
of a mysterious Egyptian. Those who investigate
are doomed to a downward spiral of the psyche.
The Cats of Ulthar: In an ancient
age, strange, mystical wanderers come to
town. But when a desolate child's kitten
is killed, the fur flies and blood will
be spilled.
Dreams in the Witch House: This tale
focuses on a brilliant math student who
rents a room which had once housed a sorceress.
He soon learns that one era's witchcraft
is another era's science, with the unexpected
result that a dimension-jumping rat creature
may be out for his blood.
Dreams
in the Witch House runs from October
12-November 10 at the Rendezvous JewelBox
Theatre (2322 2nd Avenue, Belltown, WA).
Tickets are $15; call (206) 382-4250 or
check out www.OCTheater.com
for further fetid details.
(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/)
October
10: The Other Gods are demented!
Mike
Boas's animated The Other Gods is
now available on Animation World Network's
"That's Demented" channel! You
can view The Other Gods by clicking
here.
Mike was also interviewed by the Rochester
Insider recently, and you can read the entire
interview here...
(Thanks
to Mike Boas)
October
10: New Statement screenings!
Kurt
Dudley's The Statement will screen
at the forthcoming Full
Moon Horror Convention and Film Festival
and the Danse
Macabre International Horror Film Festival!
The film is now listed on the IMDb...
(Thanks
to Robin Anson)
October
10: Another new Evil Dead DVD?
Red
Shirt Pictures Michael Felsher and Tom Sullivan
have confirmed that a three-disc set called
Evil Dead: The Ultimate Edition
is in the works. The set will include new
documentaries and other features. Detail
can be found here...
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
October
10: New From Beyond DVD review
Check
it out here,
courtesy of creature-corner.com...
(Thanks
to http://www.creature-corner.com/)
October
10: Dark Horse adapting Evil Dead
Dark
Horse Comics will publish a four-issue miniseries
adapting Ash's first run in with the Deadites
and the Book of the Dead. The comic will
differ from the original film in that writer
Mark Verheiden and artist John Bolton have
provided all new sequences and given a different
perspective on familiar scenes. The first
issue will be available in January 2008...
(Thanks
to http://www.fangoria.com/)
October
10: Rare Re-Animator screening
Star
Jeffrey Combs and director Stuart Gordon
will attend a rare screening of Re-Animator
(screened from the only un-cut 35mm print
in existence) at the Full
Moon Horror Convention and Film Festival
on Saturday, October 27th...
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
Remembering
Edgar Allan Poe this October 7, 2007...
October 5: Arkham Studios releases Harold
Arthur McNeill's C'thulhu statue!
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For
Immediate Release:
Arkham
Studios is proud to announce that
we have released the long awaited
C'thulhu statue!
This
limited edition bronze C'thulhu statue
was sculpted by Harold Arthur McNeill
and 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!)
Mr.
McNeill and Arkham Studios have shaken
hands to produce limited edition runs
of Mr. McNeill's amazing and highly
original sculptures. Heavily influenced
by the Art Deco movement, as well
as the dynamic styles represented
by the occult roots of Crowley, and
Lovecraft. Mr. McNeill has wrought
an apocalyptic vision previously unseen
in the art world.
The
Bronze C'thulhu statue is a limited
edition of 88.
The
C'thulhu statue is $125.00 + $12.00
S&H
They're going quickly so don't miss
out on this rare sculpture.
Buy yours today!
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(Thanks
to Arkham
Studios)
The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival awakens
tomorrow, and Unfilmable.com
is looking for news and reviews from the
event! If you are attending, and have computer
access, please pass them along and I'll
post them here for all to read! Enjoy the
fest, because there really is nothing quite
like it...
October 3: Finally, Del Toro's Madness!
Latinoreview.com
has just received word that Guillermo Del
Toro will direct H.P. Lovecraft's At
the Mountains of Madness after he finishes
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army!
The deal, according to the source, was finished
two weeks ago, and Susan Montford and Don
Murphy's Angry Films will produce for Universal
Studios (the film was being looked at by
Warner Bros. at one point)...
More
as it becomes available!
(Thanks
to latinoreview.com)
October
3: New Let Sleeping Gods Lie images,
teaser!
A
15 second teaser for Sven Bonnichsen's Let
Sleeping Gods Lie (based on At the
Mountains of Madness) will debut at
this weekend's HPLFF! Sven notes that the
finished film will be about 5 minutes long...
(Thanks
to Sven Bonnichsen)
October
3: Dark Paradox premiere announced!
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For
Immediate Release:
Victoria
horror film theatrical premiere for
Halloween
"Dark Paradox" explores
underground cults in Victoria October
20th
What:
To celebrate the Canadian Premiere
of Frontline Films' Dark Paradox
When:
Saturday, October 20th, 2007
11:30PM Screening
Where:
The Roxy Theater
2657 Quadra St.
Victoria, BC
From
Victoria filmmaker Brian Clement ("Exhumed",
"Meat Market 3")
comes the story of a writer's unwitting
discovery of the history and secret
efforts of a cult in Victoria, Canada
that has been engaged in a 60 year
effort to open a portal between our
world and another, in an attempt to
let in a host of vicious interdimensional
beings. Once the cult takes hold of
the writer he is thrown into a web
of horror in which the line between
fantasy and reality blurs, the city
is enveloped in chaos, and the fate
of the world rests in his hands.
The
city of Victoria was rumoured in the
1980's to be the second
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worldwide
"capital of Satanism" after
Geneva, Switzerland. "Dark
Paradox" explores the idea
that this myth was not only partially
true, but also partially inaccurate
in suggesting the cult activity was
"Satanic" when in fact it
was based on the worship of ancient
extraterrestrial "elder gods"
in the vein of H.P. Lovecraft's fiction.
The
Victoria premiere will be on Saturday
October 20th at the Roxy Theatre at
11:30PM, after the theatre's regular
screening schedule. Admission will
be $7. The screening will be hosted
by director Brian Clement, and DVDs
of his other features will be available
after the show.
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Frontline
Films Ltd. was created in 1999, and has
produced award-winning features such as
"Meat Market" and "Exhumed",
with its 2005 feature, "The Dead
Inside" playing at film fests in
Buenos Aires and Portland, Oregon. The website,
www.frontlinefilms.net,
features previews of these and other productions.
(Thanks
to Brian Clement)
October
3: Strange Aeons DVD cover revealed!
Check out Lurker
Films kick ass cover for the forthcoming
Strange Aeons DVD release!
(Thanks to Maelstrom
Productions)
October 3: New Closet Space review
Check it out here
courtesy of horror-movies.ca...
(Thanks
to Mel House)
October 3: Another Portland Cthulhu
screening
Daniel
Gildark and Grant Cogswell's Cthulhu
will screen October 13th at the Portland
Lesbian and Gay Film Festival...
(Thanks
to http://www.myspace.com/cthulhuthemovie)
October
3: The Frolic at the HPLFF and Shriekfest
this weekend!
Jacob
Cooney's The Frolic screens three
times at two different festivals this weekend!
The screenings take place at the H.P. Lovecraft
Film Festival October 6th (10:15 pm) and
October 7th (7:30 pm) and at Shriekfest
2007 (Raleigh Studios - Chaplin Theater,
5300 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA) on October
6th (12:00 pm)...
(Thanks
to Jacob Cooney)
October
3: Tons of The Pit and the Pendelum
screenings
For
Immediate Release:
Judgement.
Condemnation. Hope. Redemption.
Check
out the Official
Website for the short animated film,
The Pit and the Pendelum Official
selection of the After Dark Film Festival
2007!
Other
screenings this Fall:
Sharpcuts,
Guelph, ON, Canada 9.22-23
HD Fest London, UK, Oct. 1
HD Fest New York City, Oct. 10-11
FenCon IV, Dallas, TX, Oct. 5-7
Cinema Wasteland, Cleveland, Oct. 5-7
SIlicon 2007, San Jose, CA, Oct. 5-7
H.P. Lovecraft Film Fest, Portland, OR
Anima Festival, Cordoba, Argentina, Oct.
Head Trauma North American Tour, Oct. 20
For
all the latest news on screenings, festival
appearances and whatnot, visit the blog-
http://www.thepitandthependulumshortfilm.blogspot.com
(Thanks
to Marc Lougee)
October
3: Whisperer teaser soon?
A source for Dread Central
spoke with The
H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's Sean
Branney, and received the following Lovecraftian
goodness on their adaptation of The Whisperer
in Darkness!
"We
shot for about 16 hours on Saturday [the
21st]," Sean revealed, "We'll
start editing the teaser this afternoon."
Those
of you attending the HPLFF this weekend
might be in for a very cool surprise...
(Thanks
to Dread
Central)
October
3: More 9 Lives of Mara screenings!
For Immediate Release:
After
winning Honorable Mention at Fright Night
Film Festival and garnering rave reviews,
intense literary horror: 9 Lives of Mara
moves on to the HP Lovecraft Film Festival,
Rock and Shock and beyond!!
Directed
by Balaji K. Kumar and written by Eric Massey
& Balaji K. Kumar, the film stars Chad
Donella, Bret Loehr, Troy Gentile, Pollyanna
McIntosh and Patrick Bauchau...
Director/co- writer Balaji K. Kumar, co-writer
Eric Massey and star Pollyanna McIntosh
will be attendance for the HPLFF screenings
on Friday, Oct. 5th (7:35 pm) and Saturday,
Oct. 6th (10:20 pm). Co-writer Eric Massey
will attend the Saturday, Oct. 13th (11:00
am) screening at the Rock and Shock (2nd
Floor, DCU Center, 50 Foster Street Worcester,
MA 01608). Producer Jina Panebianco, co-writer/director
Balaji K. Kumar, stars Pollyanna McIntosh,
Chad Donella, Bret Loehr and more will attend
the Thursday, October 11th (1:00 pm) La
Femme Film Festival screening (Fine Arts
Theatre, 8556 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills,
CA 90211)...
About
the film: Twelve-year-old Robin is in
turmoil following the death of his mother
when his home is invaded by an amorous intruder.
Robin becomes convinced this darkly seductive
and mysterious woman, intent on marrying
his father, is a witch. His foul mouthed
best friend, Larry, always on hand with
a scary comic book or urban legend, goads
Robin all the way. Once Robin gets hold
of the definitive tome on witchcraft, The
Malleus Maleficarium, the indelible decision
is made: get rid of Maria. But there is
more to her, and to Larry, than meets the
eye.
Has
Robin’s troubled mind created a monster
or is his soul truly threatened by a creature
so dark and terrible, she will stop at nothing
for revenge?
Shot on 35mm with the use of intriguing
and innovative visual techniques, 9 Lives
of Mara keeps us guessing. A slick and haunting
Oedipus story with Lovecraftian influences,
Mara has all the smoky flavor of a noir
with a splash of blood to quench the thirst
of any true horror fan.
Visit
www.9livesofmara.com
for more...
(Thanks
to Polly Show)
October
3: HPLFF this weekend!
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For
Immediate Release:
The
14th Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival
at Hollywood Theatre
For
the fourteenth year in a row, Portland
represents the nexus of all that is
unspeakable and unseeable, yet spoken
and watched. The H. P. Lovecraft Film
Festival features films inspired by
and adapted from the works of H. P.
Lovecraft, as well as other authors
of weird tales and supernatural horror,
such as Edgar Allen Poe.
The
weekend introduces eight feature films
– including the regional premier
of Nobody, 9 Lives of Mara
and Cthulhu, as well as other
world, regional and local premieres
and a few perennial favorites.
In
addition to the features, the film
festival collects more than two-dozen
short films, art, vendors, music,
panels, door prizes, giveaways, and
other activities.
Special
guests include:
~
legendary artist Bernie Wrightson
(Illustrations for Swamp Thing,
|
Frankenstein,
etc. and conceptual art for Serenity,
Ghostbusters, Spider-Man,
Galaxy Quest, etc.)
~ composer Richard Band (music for Re-Animator,
From Beyond, The Pit &
the Pendulum, Ghoulies
[filmed in Astoria] etc.)
~ authors Robert M. Price, S.T. Joshi,
Stanley Sargent, Joe Pulver, etc.
~ directors for most films will be attending
screenings, with introductions and Q&A
sessions afterwards
~ pre-recorded message from director
John Carpenter for film festival attendees. |
For
up-to-date information, or to purchase advance
tickets go to: http://www.hplfilmfestival.com
Details:
Date:
October 5-6-7, 2007
Time: Doors open at 6pm on Friday, 1pm on
Saturday and Sunday.
Location: The historic Hollywood Theatre
in Portland, OR
Cost: Tickets are $12 per day per person
on Friday, $15 per day per person on Saturday,
$15 per day per person on Sunday.
(Thanks
to Sarah L. Gerhardt)
Suffered a complete computer meltdown a couple
weeks ago, and I'm just now getting back online.
Below you will find the first batch of updates
(these should have appeared on the September
news page), with much more on the way. The
