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Sunday, August 30, 2009

There's life in Innsmouth...


The Shadow Over Innsmouth, a project that I covered back in 2003, has shown signs of life recently in the form of pre-production artwork and images over on the Hindsight Partners blog...

In 2003, writer Rob Hinderstein told Unfilmable.com, "The rights to The Shadow Over Innsmouth [a big-budget film adaptation scripted by Rob] have been acquired by Hindsight Partners LLC. The script is a present day adaptation that follows closely the story lore and history. The story takes place eighty years later and progresses from the end point of where the novella ends. It is a logical transition from the story and follows three different characters all searching for the same thing. The primary character, like the novella, is a direct descendent of Obed Marsh. There has been new and exciting material added to this adaptation to create a very scary thriller."

At that time, actor Nicholas Cage's Saturn Films was in possession of the project, as explained by Rob, "As per the rumor of Nicholas Cage being involved, yes that is true. Cage is a die hard Lovecraft fan and while working on Adaptation, Joel Harlow mentioned the script and Cage wanted first look. Saturn Films (Cage's production company) is currently in possession of the project."

Effects were to be handled by Joel Harlow (HarlowFx), whose website still contains several sketches and make-up tests developed for the project as seen here and here...

It is unclear how much of the old information still pertains to the production, but hopefully future updates to the Hindsight Partners blog will tell the tale...


image © Hindsight Partners

(Thanks to hindsightpartners.com)

Friday, August 28, 2009

Rob Zombie to reinvent The Blob...


Musician/filmmaker Rob Zombie (The Devil's Rejects, Halloween II) has announced that he will write/direct and co-produce a remake of the 1958 classic The Blog. Production on the film, previously remade by Chuck Russell in 1988, will begin next spring...

Zombie, who will release a new album and go on tour in the fall, had this to say about the project, "I usually follow a movie by putting out a record and going on tour, and I write the script during that tour (one that will run through Christmas)," he went on to say, "I'd been looking to break out of the horror genre, and this really is a science fiction movie about a thing from outer space. I intend to make it scary, and the great thing is, I have the freedom once again to take it in any crazy direction I want to. Even more than 'Halloween', where I had to deal with accepted iconic characters like Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. 'The Blob' is more concept than specific storyline with characters, so I can go nuts with it. My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing...that's the first thing I want to change. That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now. I have a totally different take, one that's pretty dark."

The film will be R-rated and budgeted at around $30 million...


(Thanks to Dread Central, www.fangoria.com and www.bloody-disgusting.com)

Call for Lovecraftian Horror...


For Immediate Release:

Calling all writers and artists! Neoncon Magazine is accepting submissions for our first annual short story and artwork competition. The theme for Neoncon 2009 is Lovecraftian Horror. Submissions do not have to be set in the Cthulhu mythos, but they must have a similar feel or tone. So, send us your scifi/fantasy/horror stories of madness or insanity. The winners will be published in the Show edition of Neoncon Magazine. Artwork should also be based on this theme...

Click here for details, but hurry, the deadline is September 1st...

(Thanks to Aaron Vanek)

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Colour DVD update...


Unfilmable.com has learned that the Vanguard Cinema DVD (US, Region 1) release of Ivan Zuccon's Colour from the Dark is scheduled for February of 2010. Special features have yet to be announced...



(Thanks to Ivan Zuccon)

New Zann images online...


Check out writer/director Jared Skolnick's Things Upon Other Things blog for a gallery of images from his adaptation of
The Music of Erich Zann (which we covered here). There is also information about the short and a link to the film itself...


(Thanks to Jared Skolnick)

Lovecraft films on tour...


The Lovecraft friendly A Night of Horror International Film Festival is taking some of the "best and bloodiest" films from the 2009 fest on tour to Perth, Western Australia this October! The event will present 5 nights of features, shorts and a small assortment of films based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft...

Scheduled to screen in the Lovecraft category are James Raynor's
The Book (based on The Descendant and The Book), the Canadian short film Of Mothers and Tides (à mère et marées, see trailer below), A Night of Horror award winner AM 1200 and the HPLHS's silent classic The Call of Cthulhu...

Visit the Luna Palace Cinemas site for details...



(Thanks to Inane Ramblings of a Demented Predator)

Time for another Unfilmable.com poll...


The Unfilmable.com poll, What do you prefer, period adaptations or modern day retellings of Lovecraft's work?, is over and our latest poll, Which aspect of Lovecraft do you find most interesting, his life or his works?, is now online. Results will be available September 30th...

Results for the "period adaptations or modern day retellings" poll are as follows:

10 votes: Period adaptations
1 vote: Modern day retellings
2 votes: Don't care

Thanks for voting...

Whisperer finds its cast...


The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's adaptation of The Whisperer in Darkness has found its core cast (of 19 individuals) including veteran actor Barry Lynch in the role of Henry Akeley...

Also on board (in a small part) is actor Conor Timmis (Pickman's Model, Re-Animator: 1942)...

As always, head over to the official Whisperer blog for all the latest...


(Thanks to Conor Timmis and www.cthulhulives.org)

Rue Morgue screens The Beyond...


Lucio Fulci's masterpiece, The Beyond, will screen Thursday, September 17th as part of Rue Morgue magazine's CineMacabre Movie Nights...

The rare 35 mm screening, scheduled for 9:30 pm, takes place at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto, Ontario...

Details can be found here...


(Thanks to Sarah L. Gerhardt)

Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown review...


Frank H. Woodward's documentary Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown won't be released on DVD for a few more weeks (October 13th to be exact), but reviews, like this one on Cinema Suicide, are already popping up...

"...it stands out because of a killer line-up of authors, biographers and filmmakers that not only know what they’re talking about, but can speak on the topic of Lovecraft at length and in an engaging manner while providing insight into Lovecraft’s own influence on them."

- Cinema Suicide


(Thanks to www.cinema-suicide.com)

Friday, August 21, 2009

Chuck and Dexter return to the HPLFF...


Chuck (Tim Uren) and Dexter (Joseph Scrimshaw) make their return to the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival this October for live performances and screenings of their lastest adventure, SpookySpookyScaryScary! Head over to thestarsareallright.com for a preview...

About the film: SpookySpookyScaryScary is the episodic tale of Chuck and Dexter: best-friends, roommates and huge fans of horror author H.P. Lovecraft. But when the Great god Cthulhu sends Chuck a dream, the duo form the world's worst cult ever. Armed only with the power of the internet, cheap beer, small daggers and poor social skills they vow to spread the bad word that Cthulhu is real!! A brutally sharp tale of obsession, fantasy and the comic horror of reality!


(Thanks to hplfilmfestival.com)

New Pickman's Muse screening announced...


Pickman
's Muse, the amazing new feature film from Robert Cappelletto, will screen as part of the 9th Annual Chicago Horror Film Festival which runs from September 25th through the 27th. Details are forthcoming...

Don't forget, Pickman's Muse premieres this Sunday, August 23rd at Chicago's Portage Theatre (details can be found here)...


(Thanks to Robert Cappelletto)

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Discover the Lost Land...


Experimental filmmaker The Yawning Abyssm of a Horrible Cosmic Possibility) has finished principle photography on his latest Lovecraft inspired short film, Lost Land! The film centers on Carter, a patient in a 1930's asylum, who travels through space and time to find the source of a mysterious call from beyond the confines of his cell. When Carter is driven mad by the death of his friend and the evil that surrounds it, he searches to find a connection between his friend, the cause of his madness and the call from the distant, outworldly reaches of the Lost Land...

The short, which is now in post, should be finished by the end of the year, with a website and teaser trailer available in a few weeks. One of Woodruff's previously announced projects, The Wendigo (a teaser screened at last years HPLFF), has had production pushed back until late 2010/early 2011...


More as it becomes available...








(Thanks to Woodruff Laputka)

Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Death and Dementia...


Gris Grimly will be at Dark Delicacies this Sunday (at 2 pm) to sign his new book, Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Death and Dementia. The book features four fully illustrated Poe stories: The Tell-Tale Heart, The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether, The Oblong Box and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar...

Head over to the Dark Delicacies site for further details...


(Thanks to Dread Central)

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Lovecraft's birthday...



Happy 119th Birthday HPL...

Born August 20, 1890

Pickman's Models: Unfilmable.com...



In keeping with the Quoth Cthulhu post, this installment of Pickman's Models will also revolve around the old Unfilmable site...

Pickman's Models presents a view of the entire Unfilmable.com homepage as it appeared when it went offline in December of 2008...


For a better view, click to enlarge...

Quoth Cthulhu: Unfilmable.com...



It's been a while since my last Quoth Cthulhu (and Pickman's Models) posts, so I thought I would throw some info out there for Unfilmable.com readers who may not know that Unfilmable was a full-blown website before it tranformed into the more streamlined blog format you read today...

Below you will find the very first news item to run on Unfilmable.com from July of 2002. Someday, when time permits, I'll write up a more involed and informative history of all things Unfilmable...

July 9: Lovecraft film SHUNNED HOUSE is coming

Italy's Ivan Zuccon, writer/director of the Lovecraft-inspired THE BEYOND and UNKNOWN BEYOND (the latter due on video this fall from Leo Films), has just wrapped his latest H.P. Lovecraft pastiche, THE SHUNNED HOUSE. "It's a combination of three Lovecraft short stories: 'The Shunned House,' 'The Music of Erich Zann' and 'Dreams in the Witch-House,' " Zuccon tells Fango. "The stories are set in the same place but in three different ages: the ' 20s, the '40s and today. The audience will be thrown back and forth in time following the action, which links the three stories together.

"Present and past lodgers, unaware of the dark secrets and the plot wrapped up around them, walk helplessly in the snare laid by who's-or what's-been living in the inn for centuries and made it a kingdom of blood and horror," Zuccon adds. The film is being shot in both English and Italian versions.

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

Updated: Dirt Dauber trailer unearthed...


The trailer for
Dirt Dauber, the latest Lovecraftian horror short from award winning filmmaker Steve Daniels (The Gibbering Horror of Howard Ghormley), is now online (you can watch it below). The 33 minute film, written and directed by Steve, stars Lee O. Smith and Lyon Forrest Hill. The film has been submitted to various film festivals, so look for screening information soon...

About the film: In this disturbing Lovecraftian fairytale, a man awakes naked and confused in a isolated mountainous region, and soon encounters a strange local who offers to help him. The helpful stranger tells the man of local folklore that speaks of a murderous religious cult, a train tunnel cut deep into the mountain that leads to nowhere, and an insect-like fertility god that is said to dwell within it. The two men soon go underground in search of the truth, and find themselves in a stygian black temple of horror...



Update: Dread Central managed to dig up a little more information on Dirt Dauber, so hit the link to check it out...

(Thanks to Steve Daniels and Dread Central)

LNN interviews Joseph Nanni...


The great new blog site, The Lovecraft News Network, recently conducted an interview with talented filmmaker Josephi Nanni (Casting Call of Cthulhu, Elder Sign) in which he discusses both his start in filmmaking and Lovecraft. Several interesting bits of information are revealed in the interview including
news that an Elder Sign sequel will shoot at the end of August and that Joseph's first feature, Drawing Baphomet (read about it here), starts filming in September (look for the trailer in the next few weeks)...

"...I would just stare at the HPL covers trying to figure out what the hell I was looking at. But I didn't read any of it until I was 13. Two years later I saw Re-Animator and there was no turning back. I read everything I could and rented anything remotely Lovecraftian..."

- Joseph Nanni

Read all about it here...


(Thanks to Jacob Hodgen)

Lovecraft Paragraphs one-sheet...


The promotional poster for Reber Clark's
Lovecraft Paragraphs has been revealed and can be seen below...


(Thanks to Reber Clark)

New Colour screenings announced...


Ivan Zuccon's Colour from the Dark will screen at the 2009 Oldenburg International Film Festival in Oldenburg, Germany. The festival runs from September 16th through the 20th...

Details can be found here (in German)...


A limited run of theatrical screenings are also being planned for October in Detroit, Salem and Gloucester, Massachusetts. Colour star Debbie Rochon will attend some of the screenings...

(Thanks to Ivan Zuccon)

Lovecraft audio from 19 Nocturne Boulevard...


For those of you interested in audio interpretations of Lovecraft's work (something that I enjoy a great deal) the Audio Drama anthology series 19 Nocturne Boulevard has several already available and more on the way! Half hour audio adaptations of In the Walls of Eryx (titled Within the Walls of Eryx), Cool Air (a modernization called Chillin') and The Temple are available for download now, with The Picture in the House coming soon...

Head down 19 Nocturne Boulevard for more...


(Thanks to Julie Hoverson)

Monday, August 17, 2009

Updated: New book: Cthulhu-Unbound...


I don't usually cover book releases, but I found this over at fangoria.com...


Newly released from Permuted Press is
Cthulhu Unbound Vol. 2 a new anthology edited by John Sunseri and Thomas Brannan and featuring tales by Tim Curran (Hive), William Meikle (Island Life) and more (see below)...

Cthulhu Unbound Vol. 2 is available now through the Permuted Press Store for $14.95...

About the book: Imagine being free. Free from everything that defines you, that makes you easily recognizable as who you are. Inside you'll find Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers alongside a knight of the Round Table. The stock market will crash in a whole new, terrifying way. You'll follow along as heroes go head-to-head with eldritch horrors from Lovecraft's universe. From Greek legends to Captain Nemo, from gangsters to brokers; from prisons to palaces, dead moons to South American jungles...No one is safe; nowhere is safe. This is a Mythos collection unlike any other. This is Lovecraft in many colors, many guises. This is Cthulhu-Unbound...

- "The Tenants of Ladywell Manor" by Willie Meikle
- "Tomb on a Dead Moon" by Tim Curran
- "Passing Down" by Inez Schaechterle
- "The Hunters Within the Corners" by Douglas P. Wojtowicz
- "Surely You Joust" by Patrick Thomas
- "References in Cthonic, Eldritch, Roiling Creations are Recondite" by Warren Tusk
- "New Fish" by Kiwi Courters
- "The Long, Deep Dream" by Peter Clines
- "Santiago Contra el Culto de Cthulhu" by Mark Zirbel
- "Stomach Acid by David Conyers" and Brian M. Sammons
- "Sleeping Monster Futures" by Brandon Alspaugh
- "Nemo at R'lyeh" by Joshua Reynolds
- "What's a Few Tentacles Among Friends?" by Sheila Crosby
- "An Incident Occurring in the Huachuca Mountains, West of Tombstone" by Gary Vehar
- "Abomination With Rice" by Rhys Hughes


Update: Read fangoria.com's review of Vol. 1 here...

(Thanks to
www.fangoria.com)

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Updated: New Lovecraft audio recordings...


A repost with updates...


Please welcome guest blogger MorganScorpion who shares her audio recordings of H.P. Lovecraft...

I became disabled a few years ago, and as a result of having to give up work, I turned to daytime television. It was hell. So I turned to audiobooks and embroidery to pass the time. Eventually I discovered Librivox; an online organization dedicated to recording out-of copyright books and putting them online for free distribution. Librivox uses volunteers, and always needs new ones. After downloading and enjoying their recordings for over a year I began to feel I should give them something back for all the entertainment they had given me. In short, I volunteered out of guilt, intending to record a few chapters then go back to just listening. To my surprise, I enjoyed myself. I've been a regular contributor ever since. Lovecraft fans are really in love with the man's work. They can't get enough of it. But there is a dearth of his later works available online, as the copyright status of his later work is uncertain. So I thought I'd fill in the breach, so to speak. I hope in time that a professional actor, like Jeffrey Combs or John Lithgow will do Lovecraft full justice.

MorganScorpion's Lovecraft audio recordings are linked below...

- The Festival
- The Hound
- Pickman's Model
- The Lurking Fear
- Dreams in the Witch-House
- The Unnameable NEW
- From Beyond NEW
- The Shunned House NEW
- At the Mountains of Madness (part one) NEW
- At the Mountains of Madness (part two) NEW


(Thanks to MorganScorpion)

Friday, August 14, 2009

Pickman's Muse reminder...


Just a reminder that there will be a special screening of Chicago filmmaker Robert Cappelletto's Pickman's Muse on Sunday, August 23rd...

Time: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:00pm
Location: Portage Theater, 4050 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL
Admission is FREE!

"Based loosely on H.P. Lovecraft's short story: Haunter of the Dark, Pickman's Muse is the story of an artist, Robert Pickman, who becomes obsessed by visions of unworldly horror, revealed to him through an ancient artifact discovered in an abandoned church. His doctor and friend, Ambrose Dexter, becomes embroiled in the mysteries surrounding Pickman's newfound obsession, and struggles to combat forces determined to drag Pickman down the inevitable road to madness."

Starring Barret Walz (Chicago Overcoat, Jigsaw) as Robert Pickman

Maurice McNicholas (Risky Business, The Untouchables, Child's Play) as Dr. Dexter

Tom Lodewyck (Satanic Panic, Still Life, Carnivorous, The Legend Trip and The Sisterhood of Night) as Goodie Himes

Written, directed and photographed by Robert Cappelletto
Makeup and Character Effects by Clare Martin
Musical Score by Willy Greer

Admission is FREE!

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Nevermore extended again...


Jeffrey Combs and Stuart Gordon's one-man stage show, Nevermore: An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe, has extended its run through the end of September (shows run every Friday and Saturday through the 26th)...

You can purchase tickets by clicking here...


(Thanks to Dread Central)

Cthulhu review...


Northern Ohio's alternative newsweekly, the Cleveland Scene, reviews Dan Gildark's Cthulhu here...

"...Dan Gildark does a good job bringing the sense of dread that permeates Lovecraft's tales to the screen, both in the look of his film and with little background touches like the TV and radio broadcasts reporting on a world falling into chaos."

- Robert Ignizio


(Thanks to www.clevescene.com)

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Lovecraft Paragraphs trailer online...


Producer/director Reber Clark sends word that the trailer for his film Lovecraft Paragraphs, which he also provided the music for, is now online (watch it below)! The film, a 33 min presentation of selected paragraphs from Lovecraft's work using effects, animation and more, has been submitted to the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival...

An HD version of the trailer is available on YouTube...



(Thanks to Reber Clark)

The Father of Serpents is coming...


Minneapolis based filmmakers Paul von Stoetzel, writer/director of the award-winning Erich Zann adaptation Asleep in the Deep, and Tim Uren, one half of the Lovecraftian comedy duo Chuck and Dexter, are developing an adaptation of one of H.P. Lovecraft's ghostwritten tales, The Curse of Yig...


The original story, co-written with Zealia Bishop, revolves around a couple, newly arrived in Oklahoma around 1880, who learn about the local legends surrounding the "Snake God" Yig, who takes vengeance on those who kill serpents by killing them or turning them into half-snake monsters...

The husband who has Ophidiophobia (a fear of snakes), which isn't helped by his wife disturbing a nest of rattlesnakes, and his wife go through rituals to keep Yig away, but they fail in the end, and in fear the woman kills her own husband, thinking he is Yig...

In the end, the woman is taken to an asylum and dies there...but not before giving birth...


image courtesy of josephscrimshaw.com

Actor Tim Uren, whose one man show H.P. Lovecraft's The Rats in the Walls sold out in 2006, produced a two person stage version of The Curse of Yig (with Amy Schweickhardt) that ended it's run at the Minnesota Fringe Festival last weekend...

The stage play (watch the trailer below) takes place in 1929, when a young academic visits the Guthrie Asylum in Oklahoma to explore the native tribal belief in the snake god, Yig. There she is confronted by a bizarre creature, the sole living survivor of the nightmarish Halloween of 1889. As she learns the tragic tale of Walker and Audrey Davis - early residents of the Oklahoma Territory - she too begins to fall under the spell of an unrelenting fear that time cannot diminish...



It is unclear whether the film, which will be shot towards the end of the year, will follow the original story or Tim's stage version, but either way, the filmmakers are traveling in unexplored Lovecraft country and judging from their previous efforts, it will be a welcome edition to the world of Lovecraft cinema...

Anyone interested in helping with the project should contact Paul and Tim through their respective websites, and of course, watch this space for more...

(Thanks to Paul von Stoetzel)

Whisperer video audition...


Below you will find a video audition shot by
Conor Timmis for the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's adaptation of The Whisperer in Darkness. In it, Conor Timmis (Pickman's Model, Kreating Karloff) plays the part of "Mr. Noyes"...



(Thanks to Conor Timmis)

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Heisserer talks The Thing prequel...


Bloody-disgusting.com caught up with writer Eric Heisserer, who is currently re-writing Ronald D. Moore's draft of The Thing prequel/remake. If all goes as planned, production on the film, with Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. at the helm, could begin as soon as January 2010...

Click here for B-D's exclusive interview...


(Thanks to www.bloody-disgusting.com)

H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast...


Chris Lackey (The Investigators) and Chad Fifer, independent filmmakers and fans of HPL from Santa Monica, CA, have created the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast! Each podcast covers a specific story; including what it's about, how it reads, why Lovecraft may have written it and what other forms of media it has inspired...

Topics covered so far include the life and times of H.P. Lovecraft and the stories The Tomb, Dagon, Polaris and Beyond the Wall of Sleep...

Check out hppodcraft.com for more creepy fun...


(Thanks to Chad Fifer)

Thursday, August 6, 2009

The making of The Book...


A short documentary on the making of H.P. Lovecraft's The Book (read Tom Sullivan's review here) is now streaming online and on-demand on the Untamed Aggression Productions web channel...

Check it out here...


(Thanks to James Raynor)

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Whisperer casting underway...


Casting calls have been released for the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's The Whisperer in Darkness as pre-production moves forward towards the September 22nd start date. Below you will find just a few of the roles that are currently being cast...

Besides casting, prop-work is being done by Chris Lackey and Andrew Leman (brain cylinders, the black stone of the Mi-Go and the like) and director of photography David Robertson (The Call of Cthulhu) and composer Troy Sterling Nies have been added to the production team...

Actors interested in trying out for one of the many roles should check out talenthunter.com for details and individuals interested in being an extra (in New England or Los Angeles) should contact the HPLHS directly...

Check out the Whisperer production blog for additional details...


Wilmarth: male, 40s, a 1930s leading man, WASP-ish professor of folklore, bright, inquisitive, and able to rise to meet the demands of desperate situations

Masterson: male, 35-45, grizzled New England farmer, has the intense and slightly threatening manner of a man on the verge of psychic collapse

Ward: male, 50s, a professor of the occult, burned and scarred him physically and emotionally, wishes he didn't know so much

B-67: male, 40, bears a physical resemblance to 1920s author H.P. Lovecraft, refined New Englander

Charles Fort: male, 50s, heavy build, big mustache is a plus, historical figure look-alike preferred, writer and researcher of unexplained phenomena, affable and skeptical of conventional ideas

Astronomer: male, 20s, 1930's astronomy graduate student

(Thanks to www.cthulhulives.org)

HPLFF to screen Colour...


Ivan Zuccon's Colour from the Dark, starring Debbie Rochon, Michael Segal and Marysia Kay, will screen at this years H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival! The festival, which will be held in Portland, Oregon on October 2-4, is gearing up for major announcements and updates, so watch this space for more...


(Thanks to Andrew Migliore)

Unfilmable.com poll: what do you prefer...


The Unfilmable.com poll, Will Guillermo del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness be the definitive Lovecraft adaptation?, is over and our latest poll, What do you prefer, period adaptations or modern day retellings of Lovecraft's work?, is now online. Results will be available August 23rd...

Results for the "At the Mountains of Madness" poll are as follows:

10 votes: Yes
2 votes: No
4 votes: If the stars are right

Thanks for voting...

Poe's last days...


James McTeigue, the director behind V For Vendetta, is currently casting a "period thriller" based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven that chronicles the final five days of Poe's life where he joins the hunt for a serial killer whose murders are inspired by his stories...

McTeigue tells /Film, "It's like the poem, The Raven, itself, crossed with Se7en. It should be pretty cool. The script is really good and everyone responds to it really well. I'm in the middle of casting."

The screenplay was written by Hannah Shakespeare and Ben Livingston...

(Thanks to www.slashfilm.com)

Picture plot and trailer revealed...


The plotline for Christopher James Jordan and Gary M. Lobstein's adaptation of The Picture in the House has been revealed, and it looks to be a very faithful retelling of Lovecraft's tale...

The Picture in the House follows a bicycling scholar lost in the rural areas of the Miskatonic Valley. With a threatening thunderstorm brewing overhead, his journey leads him to an isolated house filled with odd relics and books; among them a particularly gruesome piece that catches his attention. But he soon realizes he is not alone, for the house is occupied by a strange old man with sinister intentions...



(Thanks to www.imdb.com)

Welcome to Lovecraft...


IDW's
Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft TPB is out now and retails for $19.99...

About the comic:
Written by Joe Hill with artwork by Gabriel Rodriguez, Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft tells the story of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them...and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...


(Thanks to www.bloody-disgusting.com)

Monday, August 3, 2009

Second Beyond the Wall of Sleep screening...


Fresh off its July 30th
Nashville premiere, Nathan Fisher's Beyond the Wall of Sleep will make it's Murfreesboro, Tennessee debut August 20th (9:00 pm) at the Wall Street Bar...

Details are forthcoming, so watch this space for more...


(Thanks to Nathan Fisher)

Sunday, August 2, 2009

More music from Erich Zann...


A new adaptation of The Music of Erich Zann written and directed by Jared Skolnick is set to screen as part of the Desiderata Festival in Mohawk, New York this month. The festival, which takes place at the Gelston Castle Estate, runs from August 6th through the 9th (details can be found here)...

The latest version of Lovecraft's classic was created in conjunction with Fairfield University (in Connecticut) and can be seen as part of their "Cinefest 2009"
here (watch an interview with director Jared Skolnick here). The film features Matt Perrino, Rebecca Spaide, Thomas Fulgione, Max Farinato, Chris Spaide, Derek Curley and stars Bob Diamond, Christopher Shelton (as Howard Phillips), Ronald E. Giles and Francesca Genovesi...

About the film:
Based on the short story by legendary author H.P. Lovecraft, this is an atmospheric horror film about a young student's obsession with the strange music being played above his room by an eccentric musician, an obsession that leads him to a terrifying discovery...


(Thanks to www.imdb.com, www.desideratafestival.com and www.fairfield.edu)

Lovecraft Paragraphs...


Completed in July of this year, Lovecraft Paragraphs is a 33 min presentation of selected paragraphs from Lovecraft's work using effects, animation and more that was masterminded by Reber Clark, who also directed, produced and edited...

More as soon as I can find it...

(Thanks to www.imdb.com)

North 40 #2 sneak peek...


WildStorm's official blog, The Bleed, has a sneak peek at the next installment (issue #2) of North 40 featuring pencils by Fiona Staples...

Check it out here...

(Thanks to www.bloody-disgusting.com)