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September 25: Detailed HPLFF schedule!
A
more detailed schedule for next months H.P.
Lovecraft Film Festival has just been added
to the official website! Along with the previously
announced features and shorts, the Italian documentary
Road
to L will also make an appearance. A more
detailed breakdown of the short film blocks is forthcoming...
Click
here
to view the HPLFF schedule.
(Thanks
to Andrew Migliore)
September
24: Read Me A Story is finished!
My
first short film, Read Me A Story, is finished!
Eight months (to the day) after production began,
post-production has ended. The film has been sent
to the H.P.
Lovecraft Film Festival, and will premier next
month. It will also screen at the forthcoming MiskatoniCon
2005 and Blue
November MicroFilmFest STAGE III.
I've also redesigned the official
website, and added several new images here...
Thanks to everyone who has helped along the way!
September 17: Enter the Dagon DVD cover!
Check out the prototype cover for the upcoming DVD
release for Spinning Grave's Enter the Dagon!
As previously mentioned, the disc will include the
following features. No release date has been announced...
~
The
final edit of the movie
~ Deleted scenes
~ Commentary track
~ Gil-Toons
~ "The Pitch" (A short film that
acts as an epilogue to EtD. We had people wondering
what becomes of Crispin Eldritch since he disappears
halfway through EtD. Now, they'll know)
~ Bloody Testicles From Hell (BTFH shows
in EtD but in an altered form. Here is the complete
version of the short on it's own terms)
~ Me & My Family (The dreadful
animation by Kim Wang Seng as it's own short)
~ Blooper reel & behind the scenes footage
~ An easter egg featuring "Cutethulhu"
(Thanks
to Tom Gleason)
September 17: Evil Dead remake rumor...
According
to Dread Central, actor Sean William Scott has confirmed
that it was only an internet rumor that he would
be starring in the upcoming Evil Dead remake...
Click
here
for more.
(Thanks
to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/)
September
17: Cthulhu gets some press!
Seattle's
The Stranger recently ran an article on the making
of Cthulhu called Oh, the Horror (The
Making of 'Cthulhu'). Screenwriter Grant
Cogswell and director Dan Gildark were both interviewed
for the story. The film starts shooting this month
(with casting calls taking place today, see:
September 14)...
The
article can be found here.
(Thanks
to Steve Walker)
September
15: Cool Air confusion...
It
seems that I recently confused Albert Pyun's upcoming
film, called Infection, with his adaptation
of Cool Air (see:
August 27). The
confusion came about in part because The
Internet Movie Database has listed the same
cast/crew and screenwriter for Infection
as fangoria.com gives for Cool
Air...
Albert
Pyun's Filmwerks website doesn't offer much in the
way of additional information, but does host a trailer
for Infection and the above poster for Cool
Air. One of the press links description of the
film confirmed that they are separate projects...
(Thanks
to http://www.filmwerks.com/)
September
15: The Dark between The Stars is growing!
The
official
website for Jay Woelfel's The Dark between
The Stars has been updated to include cast and
crew listings and a new teaser trailer...
The
cast includes Corin Nemec, Aimee Brooks, Jason Brooks,
Tod Thawley and Ken Foree (From Beyond).
Julia Stemock will produce from a script by Jay
Woelfel and Scott Spears. Click here
for more...
(Thanks
to http://darkbetweenthestars.com/)
September
15: Review: Evil Dead: Regeneration
Check
out wired.com's review
for the new Evil Dead: Regeneration video
game...
(Thanks
to Steve Walker)
September
15: More Fog pics
Click
here
for a couple of new Fog pics, courtesy of
bloody-disgusting.com...
(Thanks
to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)
September
14: Cthulhu casting call this Saturday!
For
Immediate Release:
New
horror film to bring name cast & Sundance producers
to Seattle, Astoria
Seattle Poet/Journalist Grant Cogswell Turns Lovecraft
Story Into Contemporary Statement
Seattle,
WA, September 12th -- 'Cthulhu', a feature
film being shot in Seattle, WA and Astoria, OR beginning
on the 27th of September, is coming to Astoria this
Saturday to hold an open casting call. Auditions
will be held at the P.A.C. (Performing Arts Center)
on Franklin and begin at 1:00 pm on Saturday the
17th, and end at 6:00 pm. Casting is for leads,
featured extras, supporting characters, and extras.
They plan to use a mix of talent and crew, both
local and out of town, from all over the Pacific
Northwest.
"Cthulhu"
is based on the Lovecraft short story, "The
Shadow Over Innsmouth". The cast stars
Scott Green, co-star of Gus Van Sant's "Last
Days" and Jennifer Westfeldt ("Kissing
Jessica Stein"). The film is being produced
by two recent Sundance alumni, Jeffrey Brown ('Police
Beat', 2005) and Anne Rosellini ('Down to
the Bone', 2004). Shooting will commence on
September 27th and go until the last week of October
with primary locations in Seattle, WA and Astoria,
OR.
The
film will be shot in the style of atmospheric Japanese
neo-horror (a la "Cure") with elements
of the psychological thriller ("Rosemary's
Baby") and apocalyptic horror ("28
Days Later"). The story tells of a man
drawn by his mother's death back to his estranged
family in the small town where he grew up. Reacquainted
with his closest childhood friend he discovers his
father's ministry of a New Age church is connected
to old massacres and frightening legends.
"Cthulhu
is a universal story addressing the current dire
political and ecological situation," says
writer Grant Cogswell. "The threat of terrorism
and the security state, and of global warming, and
stands as a warning that our dearest habits endanger
our civilization." Director Daniel Gildark
adds, "It's a coming-home-again tale about
the power of heredity-- what we can escape from
and what we cannot."
Director
Gildark has made several acclaimed local shorts
in Portland and created the memorable, surreal imagery
used for MTV's '120 Minutes'; screenwriter
Grant Cogswell is a local poet, journalist and environmental
activist and is a Richard Hugo House Belltown Fellow;
cinematographer Sean Kirby won the Golden Space
Needle Award at SIFF in 2005 for his work on 'Police
Beat' and 'The Gits'.
The
film will feature a classic score by Portland horror
film scholar Willy Greer and a soundtrack by Modest
Mouse, Blood Brothers, Gram Parsons, Joy Division.
Click
here
for more...
(Thanks
to Jules Jones)
September
12: Review: Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
Click
here
to read Dread Central's extremely positive review
of the animated adaptation of Dream-Quest of
Unknown Kadath. Guerrilla Productions recently
re-released Dream-Quest on DVD, which you
can purchase by clicking here...
(Thanks
to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/)
September
10: Re-Animator sequel(s) update!
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Dread
Central looked into the recent rumor that
3 new Re-Animator films are
in the works, and came up with the following:
"Well,
there's no "signing" going on right
now," Combs tells Dread Central,
"but we are certainly exploring the
possibilities. Brian's idea is to do three
Re-Animators, yes, three, back to back. We're
developing some good story lines, but we’re
just in the gestation period on this...I told
Brian I didn't want to wait another 20 years
to do another one. I don't want Herbert to
be a geriatric. Stuart [Gordon] could be involved
on one of them. Bruce Abbott as well."
Watch
this space for further updates!
(Thanks to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/)
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September
10: Here comes The Fog (again)...
Here's
a round-up of news on The Fog...
~
One of the ghosts from Columbia’s upcoming
remake of The Fog makes an appearance on
the cover of Fangoria #247 (on sale September 20).
The magazine contains an exclusive set visit (including
interviews with director Rupert Wainwright, the
cast and John Carpenter).
~
John Carpenter gave fango the scoop on his version
of the Fog remake (if it had been directed
by him), "I'd have put it in a big city,"
Carpenter reveals, "and make it an urban
film. I had an idea once I could never figure out.
I'd make [the ghosts] the innocent dead, and the
people who were killed unfairly would come back
and seek a little payback. There'd be a lot of stuff
going on in the ghettos. But that would be a whole
different movie, and it would also be much more
serious."
~
Composer Graeme Revell will be scoring the film...
~
Sony Pictures has fully launched their official
Fog website.
The website has downloads, new photos and more...
(Thanks
to http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/,
http://www.fangoria.com/,
http://gorezone.net
and http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/)
September
10: Lovecraft screenings...
Evil
Dead 2 and The Beyond will screen at
the upcoming Flashback Horror Weekend.
Click
here
for details...
(Thanks
to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/)
September
10: Hellboy: The Island review
Click
here
for the Horror Channel's review of the Hellboy:
The Island comic book...
(Thanks
to http://www.horrorchannel.com/)
September
10: Evil Dead: Regeneration demo and
video
Dread
Central reports that there is a playable demo of
the Evil Dead: Regeneration game in
this month's Playstation Magazine. There are also
several videos of the game that can be found here...
(Thanks
to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/)
September
10: More Evil Dead DVD news...
Anchor
Bay will release an Evil Dead 1 & 2
Double Book Limited Edition Gift Set on November
22nd. Retail will be $69.98...
Click
here
for a detailed look at the extras from the Evil
Dead 2 Book of the Dead edition DVD,
courtesy of Dread Central...
(Thanks
to http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/
and http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/)
September
10: Kammaren update!
Here's
the latest on Big Belly Films follow-up to "March
the 13th, 1941". The project, titled
Kammaren (The Chamber), involves three
friends, Adam, Björn and Jens, who take a trip
to an old house in the countryside. For many years,
the house (called The Chamber), had a strange
houseguest. That man, Tore, was Adams grandmother's
brother and he knew something wasn't right with
the place. Tore has recently passed away and with
him the secret of the houses evil past. Slowly Adam
starts to realize something's wrong, but is it to
late?
The
film is based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The
Statement of Randolph Carter", and also
inspired by the world of the role playing game "Chtulhu
Mythos"...
Robert
P. Olsson will star, as well as, produce and direct.
Production will also be handled by Ulf Norström,
Roland Olsson and Ulla Olsson. The story and screenplay
were written by Björn-Erik Karlsson and Robert
P. Olsson, and Kristoffer Andrén will handle
the Cinematography. The tentative release date is
Autumn 2006...
Click
here
for further details.
(Thanks
to Robert P. Olsson)
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