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Click here to read a review of the R-rated version of Beyond Re-Animator, which hits video shelves on December 30th. You can watch the Sci-Fi version on TV October 4th. (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) Unfilmable.com
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I hope you've enjoyed your stay... As mentioned, Beyond Re-Animator is going to be shown on the Sci-Fi Channel on October 4th (Schedule), but should you wait for video? Read Mr. Disgustings (Bloody-disgusting.com) mixed review (contains minor spoilers) by clicking here and then decide. Beyond Re-Animator hits video shelves on December 30th and Bloody-disgusting.com received the following specs, a director's commentary, making of featurette, music video, 16X9 widescreen, 5.1 Dolby Digital, and trailers. (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) (Thanks to Christian
Matzke) There's been a lot of activity over at the official H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival site. The festival is only two weeks away, so make your reservations now! Click here for more. (Special thanks to Andrew
Migliore!) Last year, MGM did the fans of horror a great service by releasing a special edition of the Dan O'Bannon zombie classic, Return of the Living Dead. One of the reasons we got to see an SE of it was thanks to the tireless efforts of one Michael Allred, an advocator of all things rare and horror who pursued both MGM and O'Bannon himself until he got what he knew the fans wanted. Damn good work on his part. Since then he's worked on petitions to get Return of the Living Dead II done (that's through Warner Bros, who have little interest in the film in the first place), which is out next year. He's done petitions for Dark Star, the first film from John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon (page is here) and O'Bannon's first directorial effort, The Resurrected (that's here), which he will be meeting with Artisan about soon enough to see if a deal can be made for an SE DVD release, which more importantly will be uncut... Click here for more. (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) A reminder... For those of you who haven't seen Beyond Re-Animator on the Festival circuit, the Sci Fi channel will be airing it Saturday, October 4th. Check it out here. (Thanks to Corey Whitworth) Nick Gains has added some character sketches to The Hound's official website. They are head sketches
of the main characters, Charles and St John. (Thanks to Nick Gains) September 23: Lovecraft Seminar FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Lovecraft Seminar The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and the Oregon Film & Video Foundation's Hollywood Theatre Project will be presenting a half-day seminar local Portland High School students on Friday October 10th from 11 am to 3 pm, focusing on H.P. Lovecraft’s literature, the history of horror films, and the genre’s reflection of our society. This project has been made possible in part by a generous grant from the Oregon Council for the Humanities, a statewide nonprofit organization and independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities . In addition, the National Endowment for the Humanities has picked the story up in the Humanities magazine for September/October. See the article "Muse of the Shadowy Realms" at http://www.neh.fed.us/news/humanities.html for more information. ABOUT THE FESTIVAL: The H.P.Lovecraft Film
Festival Now celebrating its third year at the historic Hollywood Theatre (http://www.hollywoodtheatre.org) this one-of-a-kind festival was created to promote the works of legendary author H.P. Lovecraft through cinematic adaptations by student, amateur and professional filmmakers from around the world. This year’s special guests include: • Actor Jeffrey
Combs (Re-Animator, The Frightners, Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine, Enterprise). This year’s films include Yuzna’s Beyond Re-Animator and Necronomicon, Ivan Zuccon's Italian horror film The Shunned House, the comedic Unnameable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter, the rarely seen Dark Heritage, the first ever animated adaptation of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, and over a dozen new short films (including another short by famous illustrator Richard Corben). There will also be merchants, discussion panels, music, secret screenings, and a special retrospective of the films from the past 10 Festivals. Admission is $10 Opening night, Friday – Sunday, $10 per day, or just $25 for the weekend pass. Tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance by calling 503-493-1128. Doors open 6pm Nightly, 1pm Saturday and Sunday. For a complete schedule and event updates please visit http://www.hplfilmfestival.com. See http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/guests.htm
for guest info Horror TV? Sounds good... Now how do we convince them that the stars are right for a weekly showcase of Independent Lovecraft cinema?! ~Wes Craven, John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper to join the advisory board of the Horror Channel?! Seriously guys, a horror channel as early as next Halloween could be on the way, read on for the bloody details! SciFi discovered the following scoop at Variety, "Cable television entrepreneurs Nick Psaltos and Kim Bangash have enlisted directors Wes Craven, John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper to join the advisory board of the Horror Channel, a proposed network that aims to begin operation on Halloween night 2004, Variety reported. Psaltos and Bangash have made a few formal presentations to potential investors and cable operators. Horror Channel has scared up $750,000 so far, and it hopes to harvest $3 million from the venture-capital community within the next four months, the trade paper reported." "No cable operators have signed up for the Horror Channel yet. Bangash told the trade paper that the network has more than 1,000 U.S. horror movies to draw on for its round-the-clock schedule, as well as another 1,000-plus movies and TV series from abroad." Thanks to the famous gary c for the heads up.~ (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Submission information can be found here. (Thanks to Andrew Migliore) September 21: New Unnamable images! Sascha Renninger sent along some great images from the final shooting days of "The Unnamable". The short film has now entered the post-production stage, and the official trailer will be screened at next months HPLFF. He also noted that, "...if
we can raise enough money, we`ll get a good 35mm print of "The
Unnamable" that we can send to film festivals all around the
world. If everything works out, we`ll get the film scanned in high resolution,
put in the visual effects and print it out on 35mm film stock...." Source: bloody-disgusting.com, The Seattle Times While talking to The Seattle Times, Bruce Campbell was quoted as saying, "Some executives at New Line are getting (excited) for that idea, which makes a lot of sense," Campbell told the paper. "But Ash has not been contacted to see what his franchise rate is. Funny thing is, it's actually a really cool idea, as long as there could be a satisfying end to that particular movie. There'd be no point for Ash to participate unless he could kick some major franchise ass." (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) Konami's dark series of horror games inspire Davis Films to sign on as producer. An increasing number of game franchises have been slated for motion picture treatment, most recently Majesco's BloodRayne. Now it's Konami's turn. Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo's Silent Hill series is headed to Hollywood, it was announced. The movie's production will be in the hands of Davis Films. Attached to the project is producer Samuel Hadida, whose credits include True Romance, Spider, and Brotherhood of the Wolf, the latter of which was directed by Christophe Gans. Konami confirmed that Gans would be the director. Gans' other credits include H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon: Book of the Dead and the Japanese anime Crying Freeman. Konami will be working closely with Davis Films on the film's script, creature and character design, and soundtrack. Konami did not provide details on the cast, filming location, or schedule and did not indicate whether the film would adapt specific episodes in the series or follow an original storyline set in the Silent Hill universe. The Silent Hill series has sold more than four million copies worldwide on several platforms. Konami says that it is pursuing film production deals for its other franchises, but it did not detail which series. Other highly visible Konami series include Metal Gear Solid, Contra, and Castlevania. (PC/PS2/XBOX) (Thanks to Aaron Vanek) According to Fangoria.com, the DVD company Unearthed Films has agreed to produce 10 genre films for around $1 million each. Among those is a film called "Something Wicked". ~"SOMETHING WICKED, directed by Allen [PHANTOM OF THE RITZ] Plone, is in the Lovecraft genre; it's about a demon summoned in the 15th century that stalks the family of a countess who first raised him from the underworld.~ (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) September 18: Build Your Own Army of the Dead Source: bloody-disgusting.com, Action-Figure Action-Figure posted the following scoop about a line of Army of Darkness figures from Palisades that will be 3.75" in 2004, "Each 2-pack has a figure like, say Ash, with a Deadite figure, several accessories and figure bases. When you break it down each fig won't be THAT much more than a figure at that scale, but it will be a little more. Why 3.75? Why not? You can pack a LOT of detail into a 3.75-inch figure...and besides. We want people to be able to build an ARMY of Darkness...and at a six-inch scale that would fill up a room real fast." For more follow the link, I'm ready to build up my army! (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) Click here to read my investigation into the similarities between "Alien vs Predator" and At the Mountains of Madness. This came about because of recent discussions on the Hellboy message boards. Will the film be the end of Guillermo del Toro's forthcoming adaptation? This article contains
plot spoilers! Gavin Smith has provided
Unfilmable.com with a very interesting and well written interview
with Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath director Edward Martin III.
The interview contains some great information pulled from the official
press kit of the film. (Thanks to Gavin Smith
and Edward Martin) Michael Allred began a campaign to get "The Resurrected" released on DVD over a year ago. That web page can be found here. Tonight he has informed me that, "Some progress has been made as I've recently spoken with Anne Durante, assistant to Steve Beeks (president of Artisan Home Entertainment, owner of "The Resurrected.")" He went on to say, "I hope to be speaking with him very soon regarding a DVD release of the film and putting him into contact with director Dan O'Bannon." So if you haven't written in to show your interest in seeing "The Resurrected" released on DVD, now would be the perfect time! As Michael mentioned, you can find Artisan Home Entertainment contact information here (there is also a banner at the bottom of this page). (Thanks to Michael Allred) September 16: Unknown Beyond DVD update ~ updated ~ According to LEO Films
Steve Lustgarten, Ivan Zuccon's "Unknown Beyond" DVD
is now pre-booking Dec. 19 with a new street date of Jan. 9. September 16: The Hound update! According to Nick Gains, work continues on his animated adaptation of "The Hound". He is currently working on storyboards. From The Hound: ~When I originally designed the storyboards, there were whole scenes where I couldn't initially visualize anything remotely interesting, so I just drew some basic stuff to illustrate the scene and its elements, but nothing more. Lately, I've been revisiting these "placeholder" scenes, and filling them out. Trouble is, where I might have used 2 or 3 storyboard boxes to describe a tricky scene, the revised version takes several pages! Originally the storyboard weighed in at 35 pages. After revising 4 scenes so far, it's over 43 pages long, and I've still got several more to do. I've got some more images to put up, some new storyboards, and I'm going to add all the news images to the Images page very soon. Please check back again soon.~ The official website can be found here. (Thanks to Nick Gains) September 16th: The Unnamable is in the can From the-unnamable.com: ~The second filming schedule was finished on Sunday. It´s all in the can now. Postproduction is about to begin as soon as the chemicals have dried. You can still view some photos from the set here. We will add more photos from time to time. By the way: The message board is still open, awaiting your messages!~ (Thanks to http://www.the-unnamable.com/) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The H.P.Lovecraft
Film Festival 2003 Now celebrating its third year at the historic Hollywood Theatre (http://www.hollywoodtheatre.org) this one-of-a-kind festival was created to promote the works of legendary author H.P. Lovecraft through cinematic adaptations by student, amateur and professional filmmakers from around the world. This year’s special guests include: • Actor Jeffrey
Combs (Re-Animator, The Frightners, Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine, Enterprise). This year’s films include Yuzna’s Beyond Re-Animator and Necronomicon, Ivan Zuccon's Italian horror film The Shunned House, the comedic Unnameable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter, the rarely seen Dark Heritage, the first ever animated adaptation of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, and over a dozen new short films (including another short by Richard Corben!). There will also be merchants, discussion panels, music, secret screenings, and a special retrospective of the films from the past 10 Festivals. The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and the Oregon Film & Video Foundation's Hollywood Theatre Project will also be presenting a half-day seminar Friday October 10th, focusing on H.P. Lovecraft’s literature, the history of horror films, and the genre’s reflection of our society. This was made possible by a grant from the Oregon Council for the Humanities. Admission is $10 Opening night, Friday – Sunday, $10 per day, or just $25 for the weekend pass. Tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance by calling 503-493-1128. Doors open 6pm Nightly, 1pm Saturday and Sunday. For a complete schedule and event updates visit http://www.hplfilmfestival.com. (Thanks to Andrew Migliore) Damn, there are a lot of genre festivals coming this fall! One of the first will be the brand new ManiaFest, running September 18-21 and backed by Mania Entertainment, publisher of Cinescape magazine and producer of the Cinescape Saturn Awards. Highlights of the schedule include a “Masters of Horror” panel with Clive Barker, Wes Craven, George Romero, Stuart Gordon, Eli Roth and Tobe Hooper; the West Coast premiere of BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR, with actors Jeffrey Combs and Enrique Arce and writer Miguel Tejada-Flores on hand; the world premiere of Lions Gate’s thriller MONSTERMAN, attended by writer/director Michael Davis and the cast; a screening of the original FRIDAY THE 13TH with actresses Adrienne King and Robbi Morgan and filmmaker Sean S. Cunningham, who will make “a special announcement regarding the future of the franchise”; a HILLS HAVE EYES screening with Wes Craven and actors Robert Houston, Susan Lanier and Janus Blythe; a “Comic Books to Film” panel with Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Russell, Stan Lee and others; an amateur filmmaker competition and closing night awards party; and numerous other film screenings. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) From Cultcuts News: 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 three new adaptations of classic tales by the acknowledged master of strange fiction, H.P. Lovecraft. The three director and adapters have worked to create three unique styles, utilizing a 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. WHEN: Opens Friday, October
3, 2003 at 8pm (Thanks to fasbinder62) Crispin Eldritch, Lovcraft scholar, writes his dream script. A perfect translation of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" to film. The script gets the greenlight, but falls into the hands of hack director, Stuart Corman. Corman and his writer henchman, Dexter Burt Ward, mangle and twist Crispin's script into a martial arts action film. As Cthulhu meets kung
fu, Crispin goes mad with horror, and Stuart's vision brings vengeance
from the grave. (Thanks
to Christian Matzke) Fan question: Secondly - Lovecraft. I've always found it weird how when his name gets mentioned people tend to say 'Oh yeah - tentacles'. Weird simply because most of his stories focused on that whole cold alien horror, which manifested in odd angles, inhuman colours and the like - big octopuses in R'yleth sort of seemed like a distraction from the whole true evil in his universe... So I was wondering how you planned to visualise the shuggoths, etc in the Mountains of Madness... Guillermo del Toro: First and foremost Lovecraft is about the horror of putting human existance in PERSPECTIVE. How tiny we are. Ants in the Cosmic picnic. Then about the atrocious biology that our heroes face, a crynoid, pisciform, mollusk-like aberration that is augmented by their fear of its intelligence and hatred for our mortal form. I will take at least 3 months with a team of artists before we can lock on a look for the creatures. Fan question: Are there any of Lovecraft's novels that have particularly shaped your creation of "Hellboy"? Guillermo del Toro: All "Lovecraftian-ness" in the film is mainly from Mignola's comic. That is peripheral. Fan question: I was just wondering if you were p*ssed off at the news that the upcoming Aliens Vs. Predator movie is ripping off the premise to ATMOM? I know I am. The ancient city frozen in Antarctica, the aliens that predate humanity, the expedition that leads to a sticky end - it's all there. Guillermo del Toro: I didn't know.
NOW I'm PISSED OFF!!! This might just screw the projrct up. Guillermo del Toro: Nope, different character, Fan question: And what about the ending? PLEASE tell me those three magical words will still apply - Giant Albino Penguins! Guillermo del Toro: 100% guaranteed.
G.A.P.'s will be in the flick. If it gets done. (Thanks to Guillermo del Toro) THE DREAM-QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH, a feature-length animated movie based on one of H.P. Lovecraft’s only two novels, will have its premiere at this year’s H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. The film follows adventurer Randolph Carter as he quests for a city he has glimpsed in a dream, and travels from the Earth to the moon and then a nameless Void, encountering a host of bizarre creatures along the way. The fest takes place in Portland, OR the weekend of October 9-12 at the Hollywood Theater (4122 NE Sandy Blvd.), and also includes appearances by Brian Yuzna and Jeffrey Combs (screening BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR and NECRONOMICON) and author/Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, plus showings of THE SHUNNED HOUSE, THE UNNAMEABLE II, over a dozen new short films and more. You can check out DREAM-QUEST’s official website here. (Thanks to http://www.fangoria.com/) Edward Martin's Dream-Quest is coming! Click here to find out more. (Thanks to Edward Martin
III) I've made massive changes to the Forthcoming Terrors page. Due to the ever increasing length of the page (which is a good thing!), I have created a new page to house the Completed, Unknown, Film Rumor and Canceled or Removed films. If you have a film listed on one of these pages, and the status has changed (or you would like your film to be listed), please email me here. To view the Forthcoming
Terrors page, click here. To
view Forthcoming Terrors 2, click here. Frank Bisogno's upcoming Lovecraft adaptation, "Cthulhu Rising" is starting to make waves... According to Frank, "We have a script and the start of a production team". he added, "We are currently putting together a package for investors". The feature film is an adaptation of "Call of Cthulhu" with a planned budget of $750,000. It will be shot in High Definition video. They will have some of the best production designers in Providence, plus a digital effects supervisor who has been in the business since "Tron" (he recently worked on "Ice Age") working on it. They plan to make the most faithful film adaptation of Lovecraft yet, but it will also be an expanded modernized update of HPL's work. The film will be shot on location in Rhode Island using a local crew of filmmakers, actors, and artists, and will use the Providence locations that are so integral to Lovecraft's vivid prose. As far as Cthulhu goes, they plan to use Lovecraft's technique of giving the viewer (In Lovecraft's case, the reader) just enough information to create a far more horrifying image in their mind that they could ever create visually. What you will see of Cthulhu, will be hopefully be the most unique and terrifying creature ever seen on screen. Cthulhu Rising was written and produced by Frank Bisogno and Jonathan Thomas, and will be directed by Frank Bisogno. More on this exciting production as it becomes available! (Thanks to Frank Bisogno) September 9: New Dream-Quest update! Click here
for the latest news on Edward Martin's adaptation of "The Dream-Quest
of Unknown Kadath". (Thanks to Edward Martin III) September 9: Blood Everywhere Productions ~ updated ~ Blood Everywhere Productions (consisting of sisters Anna and Matie Truwe) are the makers of "Six Shorts in Moonlight". With Anna's "writing skills and knowledge of Lovecraft" and Matie's "technological abilities", they set out to make a short film or two based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Their success got them into last years HPLFF (read Aaron Vanek's review here), where they were well received. And they don't plan on stopping there, with several other Lovecraftian projects waiting in the wings. I have yet to see their work, but will be reviewing their short film soon. Below is some interesting trivia provided by Anna Truwe for those of you who have. *The blood squirting
answering machine from "Call of Cthulhu" resulted in
one of the filmmakers losing half the deposit on her apartment. (Thanks to Anna Truwe) September 9: Enrico Saletti and the The Robot! Back on September 1st I announced that "The Shunned House" had won two SOFFIA's at the The Festival of Fantastic Films 2003 (in Manchester). Here you can see writer
Enrico Saletti with the statuette! (Thanks to Enrico Saletti) John Strysik sent along news of this updated version of his classic HPL short, "The Music of Erich Zann". The new version of Zann will be screened at next months HPLFF. THE NEW MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN Sound is the horror in "The Music of Erich Zann." H. P. Lovecraft wanted to conjure up reverberations of "indefinable dread--the dread of vague wonder and brooding mystery" holding "vibrations suggesting nothing on this globe of earth." Composer André Caporaso tried doing just that with his wonderful string quartet, but the 1980 soundtrack I put together only scratched the sonic surface of HPL's cosmic terror. Part of the problem was the primitive film school sound mix consisting of 5 measly tracks compressed into monaural optical. Well, sound reproduction has made some giant evolutionary steps in the intervening 23 years. And it helps that André Caporaso has become an Emmy winning Hollywood mixer in the process. Since "Zann" is slated to appear in a new DVD release it was André's idea to give the film a sonic update; or rather, to finally give it the sound design I couldn't. Through the good graces of Rick Larson, owner of Larson Studios in Hollywood, André enlisted the help of top flight Larson people. Major thanks goes out to Tommy Huth, Scott Turner, Chris Unthank, Emily McCullough, and David Dondorf in the creation of this new version. Also appreciated is the contribution of talented double bassist Tony Green. Some of the additions are admittedly minor, like the sound of Blandot's pitcher being put down or the scrapes of a straight razor across the protagonist's jutting jaw. But others are profound, like the new cosmic tones of Zann's weird music and strange harmonies enveloping the audience in 5.1 surround, or the horrible howls added to the colours out of space finale. All you need is 50 digital tracks, a state of the art studio, 23 years of sound development and the talent of André Caporaso to make old Erich's music of "indefinable dread" much, much more dreadful. After all, didn't someone say the audience is listening? (Thanks to John Strysik) Sascha Eichholz (webmaster of the-unnamable.com) sends news that filming resumed last Saturday and is currently going very well. On Saturday they completed two establishing shots set in the 1930's in front of a hospital. On Sunday the crew "went back into 16th century New England". He added that, "Many extras and historical costumes were used, and the make-up FX by Sandra Steineck were amazing". From Monday the 8th to Wednesday 10th additional dialogue will be shot with the two leads Robert Lyons and Jeff Motherhead (images here). If the weather permits, filming will be completed on Friday. Images from Saturdays shoot can be found here. (Thanks to Sascha Eichholz) September 8: Enter the Dagon image gallery update I've added two very cool mock movie posters used in the production, "Enter the Dagon". These images were created by Scott Jerry Lawrence and Gil Merritt. You can check 'em out here. (Thanks to Scott Jerry Lawrence and Gil Merritt) September 8: The Shunned House DVD hits the street! Brain Damage Films DVD release of "The Shunned House" hits stores tomorrow! You can buy it here! The film continues to tour the world on the festival circuit as well. It will screen at the Torino Horror Film Festival (Italy) Wednesday, September 10th. (Thanks to Ivan Zuccon) Meg Andros has provided the final piece in a trilogy of reviews, based on The Evil Dead films. Check it out here! (Thanks to Meg Andros) From http://www.pickmansmodel.com/ After seventeen very long months and lots of hard work, we are very pleased to announce that the film has been finished!!! The completed film, with a final running time of 39:57, was sent off to the 10th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival early this morning (9/6/2003). We will let you know specific times, etc. for the festival as we learn them. Many thanks go out to all the folks that helped make this possible! We'll be posting photos, clips, and much more over the next few weeks. We hope to see everyone down in Portland this October !!! (Thanks to Rick Tillman) Maelstrom Productions presents: H.P. Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep In the middle of the night, shots ring out through the corridors of Arkham Asylum. Dan Upton sits in an interrogation room trying to explain why he has just killed his best friend, Edward Derby. With the police listening skeptically, he tells the story of their first meeting with the beautiful but mysterious Asenath Waite, Edwards frighteningly quick descent into black magic and madness, and his own inability to save his friend until it was finally too late… The film will screen
at next months 10th
Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. (Thanks to Eric Morgret
and K.L. Young) Click here to read a book review of John Carpenter: Prince of Darkness courtesy of Creature-Corner.com. (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) The following update is courtesy of Thibaut Brix. Translation by AltaVista Babel Fish. ~Whereas Weisy is in full effervescence with "the Guard", on the side of Lovecraft World Prod., that is not unemployed either! Charles Dexter Ward, realizer of the trilogy "Call Of Cthulhu" currently works on the storyboard and the music of first film, "Crawling Chaos". Studies oblige, these are especially the weekends which are haunted inexpressible tentacles sticky and dreams... One awaits impatiently the first turns of cranks and the first images of this video trilogy which announces being a royal vintage!~ (Thanks to http://www.weisy-productions.tk/) I've added two new reviews to the reviews page. They are for "The Trollenberg Terror" and "Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn". These reviews are courtesy of Iain McLachlan and Meg Andros who have previously reviewed "The Haunted Palace", "City Under the Sea" and "Evil Dead: The Book of the Dead". (Thanks to Iain and Meg) September 5: The Shunned House voted video of the month! According to Fangoria's Tony Timpone, Dr. Cyclops has named "The Shunned House" VIDEO OF THE MONTH in the October issue of FANGORIA magazine. Congratulations Ivan! September 5: Music inspired
by the writings of H.P.Lovecraft 9 Productions is proud to present the absolutely amazing single from Croatia / Czech's The Old Ones. Taking contemporary metal to the next level is exactly what The Old Ones is doing like no other band right now in the metal scene. Mixing powerful, progressive guitars with beautiful oriental atmosphere to create something truly original. The band is inspired by the writings of H.P.Lovecraft, E.A.Poe and C.G.Jung. "Al - Azif" will appeal to all fans who love unique, oriental metal that combines power, darkness and magic. Simply brilliant! The tracks that appear on Al-Azif are as follows: 01. The Old Ones To hear sample tracks, click here. (Thanks to 9 Productions) Check out Creature-Corner.com's article on the 10th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival! ~PORTLAND HOSTS UNNAMABLE
HORROR Every year, some freaks out in Portland, Oregon gather to honor the master of crawling chaos with a film festival complete with submissions from around the world, and this year will see no change. Except, perhaps, in the special guests attending... On October 9-12, Lovecraftphiles will converge upon the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, and among the celebrities they will oogle will be actor Jeffrey combs (Re-Animator), director Brian Yuzna (Beyond Re-Animator), Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, and actor Jack Donnor. Most of the filmmakers whose films will be scaring the crap out of moviegoers will be attendance as well, and hopefully they'll stick around to help clean up all the crap out of the seats afterwards. To check out the full schedule of films and guests, be sure to check out the festival's official site right here, and make your plans accordingly. Stuart Gordon, director of From Beyond and Dagon, told me himself that this festival is a must for H.P. fans, and that's not an opinion you mess with.~ (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) September 4: The Shunned
House released in France! The Shunned House has just been released in France as a special Collectors edition DVD. The release will be limited to 1000 units. note: this is a PAL region 2 DVD Click here for more! (Thanks to Ivan Zuccon) September 4: Mania's Masters Get Beyond Santa Monica's Mania Fest 2003 (September 18-21) has just added a "Masters of Horror" panel to the schedule! The panel (to be moderated by Cinescape's editor in chief Anthony C. Ferrante) will include Tobe Hooper, Clive Barker, Wes Craven, Eli Roth (Cabin Fever), George Romero, and Stuart Gordon. The panel will be held on the 20th. In addition to all that, Creature-Corner.com just learned that the latest adventures of a certain Dr. Herbert West, namely Beyond Re-Animator (review), will be opening the festival on the 18th. Jeffrey Combs and screenwriter Miguel Tejada-Flores are both scheduled to show for a Q & A session afterwards. For more information on the Fest, click here. (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) The Australian experimental band, The Unnameable have a new website! The Unnameable (Clinton Green & Andrew McIntosh) are responsible for the great Lovecraftian soundscape, But of that, I will not speak... Another project they are associated with is the soundtrack for my forthcoming (I promise, it's coming!) Lovecraftian film project, Halfway House. The music they've created (from my finished script) will really push my production to the next level. They are now hard at work on the soundtrack to Sascha Renninger's adaptation of "The Unnamable"! Click here to enter The Unnameable's home, if you dare! (Thanks to Clinton Green)
Click here to read another review of Herbert West's latest adventure, "Beyond Re-Animator". (Thanks to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/) Ivan Zuccon's "The Shunned House" had a very successful screening at the The Festival of Fantastic Films 2003 (in Manchester), winning two prizes. Director Ivan Zuccon and writer Enrico Saletti both won the SOFFIA (Society of Fantastic Films Award). Congratulations to Ivan
and Enrico, for being recognized for their incredible contribution to
film. The UNNAMABLE-online forum is finally active. Feel free to share your thoughts and speculation about the project with others and the filmmakers as well! Check it out here. (Thanks to http://www.the-unnamable.com/) Geoffrey Clark's great animated short "In the Vault" has been accepted at this years Screamfest LA. It will compete in the short animated category. Judges include FX master Stan Winston and Hellboy director Guillermo Del Toro. Check out "In the Vault" here. Congratulations to Geoffrey
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