Alex Turner's new film, and Dead Birds follow-up, The Stone House completed principal photography on September 5th, 2007.

More news soon...

Update: Screenwriter Simon Barrett has informed Unfilmable.com (at my request) that The Stone House is not indebted to the works of H.P. Lovecraft like Dead Birds was. So while I'm excited about seeing the new film, I will probably discontinue covering it's progress...

(Thanks to http://www.alexturner.com/ and Simon Barrett)

September 14: HPLFF premieres Wishbaby



The latest project from Rough Magic screenwriter/producer Stephen Parsons, called Wishbaby, is set to premiere at next months HPLFF...

About the film: Wishbaby is a savage fairytale set in a contemporary urban landscape. A troubled young black teenager Maxine rescues an eccentric old lady Eve from an unhappy slap by a mixed-race gang of teens and is rewarded for her act of kindness with the gift of a terrible secret: how to make and operate a Wishbaby. With Eve's help Maxine gives life to a magic doll and sets out to solve her current problems, inadvertently releasing Eve's dead Governess from her astral prison and unleashing a storm of supernatural activity...

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

September 14: New From Beyond DVD review



Dread Central's Uncle Creepy reviews the new From Beyond DVD...

(Thanks to http://dreadcentral.com/)

September 13: HPLFF update, new shorts added!

Several new short films have been added to the HPLFF schedule, including some previously announced here...

Experiment 18 by Christian Matzke, Nyarlathotep by D.W. Kann (with music by MARS), Qwertyuiop by David Pym and Shadow of Time by George Schiemmer (with music by MARS) are the latest additions...

Actors Joseph Scrimshaw and Tim Uren (Chuck and Dexter), Richard Manfredi (Director of Public Relations for SmartSound), Actor Shaun Kurtz (Dr. Munoz in Serge Rodnunsky's Chill) and artist/filmmaker George Higham (Annabel Lee) have also been added to the guest list...

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

September 13: Re-Penetrator screening this weekend

For Immediate Release:

Joanna Angel is hosting the 1st XFanz Erotica Film Festival, and it all goes down on September 15th and 16th all day and into the night at:

Knitting Factory Hollywood - (7021 Hollywood Blvd)

Saturday, Sept 15th at 12:30pm – Joanna Angel on the "Eroticia Today" panel
3:30pm – A sneak preview of Burning Angel's latest film, "Not Another Porn Movie" is screening as part of the "Eroticore" program
Sunday, Sept 16th at 1:30pm – The AVN Award Winning "Re-Penetrator" is screening as part of the "Meta-Erotica" program

Get tickets, schedule and more info at www.eroticafilmfest.com

(Thanks to Joanna Angel)

September 12: The Case of Howard Phillips Lovecraft on DVD!



Patrick Mario Bernard and Pierre Trividic's 1998 documentary The Case of Howard Phillips Lovecraft is coming to DVD courtesy of Morning Star Entertainment! Originally broadcast on French television, the 45 minute biographical documentary is scheduled for a October 23rd release. The DVD contains a "making of" featurette and retails for $34.98...

About the film: A highly original film, The Case of Howard Phillips Lovecraft stands out among the prestigious entries in the Century of Writers Series from Arte, partly because of the film’s subject—Howard Phillips Lovecraft. H.P. Lovecraft has thrilled countless readers by creating his own imaginative worlds and mythologies in his books, becoming a legend in the process.

Disgusted by life and uninterested in earthly subjects, Lovecraft intentionally avoided reality when writing, veering into the unknown and inspiring the fear that lurks in nightmares. But, how do you portray the indefinable mythology that gave birth to Dragon, or the mysterious Cthulhu, or the uniquely strange Necronomicon? Directors Patrick Mario Bernard and Pierre Trividic asked themselves this question before responding with this unorthodox documentary that re-creates the atmosphere of claustrophobia, anxiety, and madness of Lovecraft’s life and work...

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

September 11: New Closet Space screening

Closet Space will screen at next months SiliCon Convention in San Jose, CA! SiliCon is a horror/comic/sci-fi convention & film festival that takes place the weekend of October 5-7. Director Mel House also notes that he will participate in several film panels. Details are forthcoming...

(Thanks to Mel House)

September 10: HPLFF schedule fleshed out!



Shawn Linden's Nobody has been added to the list of features screening at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival next month, and Baltimore by Scott Williams, Calls For Cthulhu by Brandon Gamblin, Russell Welch's The Crimson Robe (look for images in the September 2nd update), The Hermetic Abyss by Aaron Selmi, The Masque of Ollock by Robert F. Kauffmann, Of Darkness by Gary Irwin, A Short Film About John Bolton by Neil Gaiman and The Vault by Justin Owensby have been added to the short films schedule...

HPLFF updates should be more frequent from here on out...

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

September 10: More new Lovecraft and Poe discs

Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator follow-up and Lovecraftian masterpiece, From Beyond, gets the DVD treatment tomorrow with the HD director's cut as Stuart intended it! List price is $19.98...

Also coming tomorrow is modern day retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's The House of Usher for $27.98...

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

September 10: Cursed DVD



David Keith's The Curse will be released tomorrow on a double disc DVD (w/ Curse 2: The Bite) by MGM Home Entertainment. The film is a loose adaptation of The Colour Out of Space starring Wil Wheaton and Claude Akins. David Keith was assisted on the film by Lucio Fulci...

Retail is $14.98...

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

September 9: Planet Lovecraft is coming!

Welcome to Planet Lovecraft, a small-press high quality magazine in the tradition of Creepy, Eerie and Heavy Metal that delves into the world of weird horror master, H.P. Lovecraft! The first issue is currently in the works, and will contain part one of the previously stand-alone Kinghtgaunt series by K.L. Young and John Fulton along with Tim Sparvero's adaptation of The Nameless City, Joshua Gamon's Leviathan and a stunning cover by D.E. Christman. Issue #1 is expected by years end...

The B&W illustrated quarterly magazine is already seeking submissions for #2! Lovecraftian comics (5 - 15 pps long), including adaptations, new mythos stories, sci-fi, horror, fantasy are currently be sought for inclusion in the forthcoming issue...

Further details and submission information can be found on the magazine's official MySpace page...

(Thanks to K.L. Young)

September 9: Unfilmable.com wins award!

Horrorfind.com has awarded Unfilmable.com it's Freaking Scary Site Platinum Award!

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

September 7: New Dunwich lobby cards and more!

Cast information, photos and two new lobby cards have appeared over on the Dunwich Horror MySpace page...

(Thanks to Richard Griffin)

September 7: Rare Innsmouth screening!

Aaron Vanek's Return to Innsmouth will screen October 5th at the Strongsville, Ohio Cinema Wasteland Movie and Memorabilia Expo! The 1999 film, intended as a follow-up to The Shadow Over Innsmouth, was originally released on VHS by Beyond Books (now Lurker Films), but is now out-of-print...

Also scheduled to appear is Marc Lougee's stop-motion animated The Pit and the Pendulum...

Details can be found here.

(Thanks to http://www.cinemawasteland.com/show.html)

September 7: Frolic footage online

Two minutes from Jacob Cooney's The Frolic can be found on the film's official MySpace page!

(Thanks to Jacob Cooney)

September 7: From Beyond screening tonight

Fangoria's free screening of Stuart Gordon's From Beyond is tonight at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater! The screening takes place at 11 pm...

Click here for more...

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

September 6: 9 Lives of Mara added



Balaji K. Kumar's feature, 9 Lives of Mara, has been added to the HPLFF schedule...

About the film: Twelve-year-old Robin is in turmoil following the death of his mother. As he struggles with his grief and new role, their home is invaded by an amorous intruder. This darkly sexual, mysterious woman intent on becoming the children's stepmother. After reading the ancient tome on the history of witchcraft, The Malleus Maleficarium, Robin begins to notice Maria's strange habits are in terrifying step with those of a witch. His fear for himself and his family is overwhelming as he becomes dangerously obsessed with ridding his home of the evil threatening it. But there is more to his wise-cracking best friend Larry and to Maria than meets the eye. 9 Lives of Mara embraces this journey into insanity, while answering the call for more literate, supernatural horror. Eschewing the predictable, the film plunges inside the human psyche to uncover how dangerously close it teeters to near absolute oblivion...

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

September 6: Latest Cthulhu review

Dread Central has the latest review of Daniel Gildark and Grant Cogswell's Cthulhu (courtesy of resident Lovecraft reviewer D.W. Bostaph), and it received a 5 out of 5!

Check it out here...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

September 5: UK Creepshow cover



Here's the final DVD cover for the 2 disc SE UK release of Creepshow. Universal is releasing the DVD this October...

Check out the Red Shirt Pictures MySpace page for details...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

September 4: The HPLFF schedule, so far...

Here's an up-to-the-minute listing of the films (both features and shorts) scheduled to screen at the 2007 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Several of these films have not even appeared on the HPLFF site. Films and schedule subject to change...

(Thanks to http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/, Robert P. Olsson, Jacob Cooney, Robin Anson, Steve Hergina and Sarah L. Mason)

September 4: HPLFF 2007, more shorts added!

Eight more short films have been added to the 2007 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival schedule! The films set to screen include Azathoth by Nicolas Marie, Call by Andrew Scott, Fantasy Beyond by Steven Kostanski, Jacob Cooney's The Frolic, H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Terrible Old Man', Perpetuum Mobile by Enrique Garcia, Tell-Tale by Jason Roberts and Robert P. Olsson's a Legend told...

Film details (cast, country of origin, year, etc.) can be found here...

More updates soon!

(Thanks to Robert P. Olsson and Jacob Cooney)

September 3: HPLFF makes a Statement!



Kurt Dudley's The Statement will screen as part of this years H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival...

(Thanks to Robin Anson)

September 2: Picturesque Dunwich!

Here is the first of three lobby cards created by writer/director Richard Griffin for his adaptation of The Dunwich Horror...

There are lobby cards, cast and crew photos and behind-the-scenes images on the film's official MySpace page...

(Thanks to Richard Griffin)

September 2: A terrifying encounter with The Crimson Robe!

Written and directed by Russell Welch, The Crimson Robe stars Clint Ward, Jeffree Newman and Erick Ocho. Inspired by Dagon and The Shadow Over Innsmouth, the HD film was completed this summer and clocks in at 13:09...

As previously mentioned, the film revolves around a young man who struggles to maintain his sanity after a terrifying encounter with a cult of amphibious creatures...

(Thanks to Russell Welch)

September 2: More Statement images!

Here's another batch of images from Kurt Dudley's The Statement!

About the film: Randolph Carter is to be questioned by two police officers; both believe foul play is involved with the strange disappearance of Randolph's close friend Harley Warren.

Randolph must recount the events leading up to Harley's disappearance, taking them on a journey from Randolph's first encounter with Harley's strange indecipherable book, to the creepy graveyard ruins hidden within Cypress woods.

But will Randolph's statement be believed or will it condemn him to a fate worse than death!

The statement of Randolph Carter will reveal a horrific truth of cosmic horror that is too utterly beyond thought!

(Thanks to Robin Anson)

September 2: Cthulhu rises at the HPLFF



Daniel Gildark and Grant Cogswell's Cthulhu (adapted from The Shadow Over Innsmouth) has been added to the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival schedule according to festival insider Sarah Mason...

Screening times and a full schedule are still in the works, so stay tuned for more!

(Thanks to Sarah L. Mason)

September 2: The Thing lives!



Universal's Halloween Horror Nights has added The Thing to it's lineup for 2007! The Thing: Assimilation is set 25 years after the events in John Carpenter's classic remake, where guests will enter Outpost 3113 (a research hub housing the government's most classified projects) containing bio-hazardous evidence from Outpost 31. When a containment unit expectedly opens, all hell breaks loose...

Visit Universal's official site for more info...

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

September 2: A trailer in the Mist...



The first trailer for Frank Darabont's The Mist has finally hit the web, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies...

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

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August 30: Colour from the Dark wraps!
August 30: HPLFF schedule update!
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August 30: The Frolic at Shreikfest 2007
August 29: Nyarlathotep attends the HPLFF!