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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Kickstarter: NecronomiCon: The Premier Lovecraft Convention in Providence



NecronomiCon: The Premier Lovecraft Convention in Providence

"Resurrecting the Memory of Lovecraft... just a few more essential salts to go.
Dear Friends - we've been overwhelmed with the amount of support, positive feedback, and buzz we've gotten from Lovecraft scholars and fans, Weird Fiction authors and artists, and all manner of people who have a love for Hoary Providence.
Our plans are rapidly moving forward to bring the world the premier Lovecraft literary and scholarly conference and cultural convention, right here in the heart of Lovecraft's beloved hometown, August 23-25, 2013.

Imagine: a convention with top-notch research, writing, and non-Euclidean geometry... as well as history, art, music, theater, gaming, food, etc. All over the course of three really intense days next August.
The many tasks associated with pulling off a successful convention worthy of Grandpa's memory come with a hefty preliminary bill. In order to quickly meet our financial needs and keep our momentum up, we've realized that Kickstarter is our best friend. It's helped that so many of YOU friends have suggested it to us, too.
So - what do we need? We have a number of varied bills that will soon come due, divided into two primary areas of need: Printing/Advertising (T-shirts, posters, flyers, print and web adverts), and Venues (particularly down payments and deposits on our meeting halls, art galleries, etc). Our projected budget and what we expect to pull in with ticket sales and sponsorships will cover our expenses over the long run, but for the short term, having some seed money would be a HUGE help in keeping us moving forward to getting the stars just right.

So, we're putting our collective hat out and asking you folks, who desperately want the same thing we do, to consider jumping in when it'll count the most.

Check out the rewards we're offering! We truly hope we're presenting a tantalizing collection that will inspire you all."



Lovecraft eZine's List of recommended Lovecraftian movies



Mike Davis, publisher of the Lovecraft eZine, has posted a quite intersting list ...

"Below is a list of Lovecraftian-themed movies that I recommend — what I consider to be the best of the best. Note that I did not say that this is a list of movies based on Lovecraft’s stories. Some movies on this list are adaptations of Lovecraft’s work, to be sure; but there are plenty that are not. That’s not important. What is important is that the movie makes good use of Lovecraftian themes, whether it’s an adaptation or not.
For example, you won’t find The Dunwich Horror on this list, but you will find Dagon (a Lovecraft adaptation) and Absentia (not a Lovecraft adaptation). Why? Because tentacles and adaptations don’t make movies Lovecraftian.
What does make a movie Lovecraftian, in my opinion? Wikipedia writes that “the hallmark of Lovecraft’s work was the sense that ordinary life was a thin shell over a reality which was so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person.” I agree wholeheartedly with that definition, and I put together this movie list with that in mind.
Also, this is a personal list; it’s movies that I think are very good to great and that use Lovecraftian themes. If you disagree, fair enough; your comments are welcome. If you think I’ve forgotten a movie that should be here, please let me know.
I’ll be adding to this list from time to time. To stay in the loop, sign up for email notifications at the top right side of this page.
Long story short: If you enjoy reading new stories of Lovecraftian horror like the ones found in The Lovecraft eZine, then you will probably enjoy the movies below. So grab the popcorn and turn down the lights — here’s the list!"

You can find the complete list at the Lovecraft eZine.

 

Friday, December 7, 2012

Graphic Novel: Pickman's Model

Review: Pickman's Model (review (c) by Julia Morgan)


112 pages, black and white, paperback.
Cover design by Robert Høyem.
Art and adaption by Kim Holm.
Original text by H.P. Lovecraft.

I was intrigued by this right from the start. I am a fan of graphic novels on the whole, but am cautious about approaching them, as often I find the artwork garish and unpleasant to look at.

This graphic novel is definitely not garish, and while the artwork is not the best I have seen, it is good. The black and white and grey swirl and drip and etch themselves onto your eyes as if drawn with a pen dipped in acid. With Lovecraft's excellent prose, some of it verbatim, some of it cleverly precised, the story itself cannot fail.

However, Lovecraft's story consists entirely of the narrator talking to a friend about another friend. So the artist has decided to spend a lot of frames on just showing the narrator talking. Not until he talks about his visit with Pickman do we get to see what the narrator is talking about. No cut to the Art Club's shock and disgust, no cut to Pickman's paintings.

This makes for a graphic novel that is extremely boring to look at in places. Where it truly does come alive is when it depicts Boston herself. A very dark and gloomy city, according to this graphic novel; a place as "witch-haunted" as Arkham. A place one would hesitate to visit in broad daylight, let alone at night. In one five page sequence, we see nothing but blackness, with the whiteness of the words arranged across the page in a ladder of suspense; and then splashes of torchlight. I was reminded of a scene from M Night Shyamalan's "Signs", in which we see nothing but the beam of a torchlight rolling around, but what we hear carries the message - "be very afraid". Here, minimalism works. Elsewhere in the novel, it doesn't work so well.

What really lets it down for me is - no ghouls. You don't see a single ghoul. True, there is something ghoulish about Pickman's appearance, and in one frame, in which he is silhouetted in a basement doorway, he is positively frightening. But this is no compensation for the lack of ghouls.

Neither do we get to see Pckman's artwork directly. Instead we get to see the outlines of his canvases and easels, but not the paintings themselves. I understand that Lovecraft's description of Pickman's paintings: "Nothing was blurred, distorted, or conventionalized; outlines were sharp and lifelike, and details were almost painfully defined. And the faces!"; is rather daunting to anyone not an artistic genius like Richard Upton Pickman.

This graphic novel is far from perfect, but it is good. Should you wish to see for yourself, you can download it for free from http://archive.org/details/PickmansModel

Then consider whether you would like a hard copy for your shelves. You can purchase it from IndyPlanet for a reasonable price.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Grabbers: New Trailer

via dreadcentral.com



"Some people like to be enveloped in tentacles and suffocated. Who are we to judge? In any event a second trailer for the drunken sensation that is Grabbers (review here) has arrived. IFC Films will be releasing the monster comedy in theaters and VOD later this year.
Helmed by Jon Wright and penned by Kevin Lehane, the creature feature stars Richard Coyle (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time), Ruth Bradley (Flyboys), and Russell Tovey ("Being Human" UK).

Synopsis:
Ciarán O’Shea, the handsome though washed up policeman of sleepy Erin Island, has a daily routine consisting mainly of hanging out at the pub with the local drunks and various other charmingly eccentric characters. But his day is about to go horribly wrong.

Teamed up with the unwanted help of Lisa – an uptight workaholic policewoman from the Irish mainland – they suddenly find themselves dealing with dead whales, decapitated fishermen and weird alien creatures or “grabbers”. Like a giant squid with tentacles, fanged jaws and a three-foot barbed tongue, they’re making mincemeat of the locals.
Faced with another imminent attack, O’Shea and Lisa figure out that the only person to survive the last onslaught only did so because he was so drunk his blood was literally toxic to the monsters. So there is only one thing for it: They have to get the entire village as drunk as possible in order to survive the night ... a task that the villagers apply themselves to with gusto.
But one person must remain sober so for the first time in years O’Shea has to face up to things without a drink. When things don’t go to plan, an extremely drunk Lisa and a very sober O’Shea have to reconcile their differences and somehow save the day."


Kickstarter: Punktown: An RPG Setting for Call of Cthulhu® and BRP Gaming


Via Kickstarter:

Game in a haunting, dark, cyberpunk city, full of aliens, robots, and mutants. Welcome to Jeffrey Thomas' Punktown. Watch your back!

“Skyscrapers with sides so smooth and featureless (with vidscreens on the interior, instead of windows) that one might think they were solid granite monuments in a graveyard for dead gods. Other buildings that looked like they’d been pieced together from thousands of odd-matched parts salvaged from stripped factory machines, steam curling out of grids and grates in their complex flanks. Buildings with snake skins of multicolored mosaics. Buildings wearing an armor of riveted metal plates, like retired warships looming vertically with their sterns jammed into the street. Flat roofs upon which perched smaller buildings, symbiotically. Other structures tapering to needle points that seemed to etch the clouds upon the blue glass of the sky. Stacked apartments. Stacked businesses. On street level: shop fronts, and gang kids squatting on tenement steps, glaring insolently at the slow sludge of traffic...Ah, Punktown.”
--Jeffrey Thomas, Deadstock
 
 
 
The Setting:
Picture Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Minority Report, Total Recall and the rest of the dark, not-too-distant-future genre. Now add aliens, mutants, and robots. Welcome to Punktown...now gimme your wallet.
Punktown is a city created by author Jeffrey Thomas who has written numerous books set there, both novels and short story collections. The stories depict a crazy world where anything and everything goes, but menace lurks in the shadows.
The Book:
Punktown: An RPG Setting for Call of Cthulhu® and BRP is a book that will allow players of Chaosium's famous award-winning system to explore a dark, futuristic world fraught with untold perils. If you're a cyberpunk fan, if you're a horror fan, or if you're both, you'll want to explore the pages of this book.The book will be written for the famous BRP system, compatible with Call of Cthulhu and Chaosium's many other game settings, so if you're looking to expand your world, and add options, look no further than Punktown!
The book will explore the city itself, the alien races, the weaponry, the creatures, mutations, cybernetics, drugs, sanity (and the inevitable loss thereof), and the option of adding the Cthulhu Mythos into the mix. As written in Jeffrey Thomas' work, the mythos is already there, threatening life as Punktowners know it, but whether or not to use that element is left to the individual gaming groups, and their preference.
 
 
 
The Authors:
Teaming up to bring you this book is the creator of Punktown itself, Jeffrey Thomas, fiction/nonfiction/gaming author Mike Tresca, Call of Cthulhu Great Brian M. Sammons, and the President of Miskatonic River Press, Tom Lynch.
Jeffrey Thomas is a prolific writer of science fiction and horror, best known for his stories set in the nightmarish future city called Punktown, such as the novel Deadstock (Solaris Books) and the collection Punktown (Ministry of Whimsy Press), from which a story was reprinted in St. Martin's The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #14. His fiction has also been reprinted in Daw's The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII, The Year's Best Fantastic Fiction and Quick Chills II: The Best Horror Fiction from the Specialty Press. He has been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award (Best First Novel) for Monstrocity, and a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Deadstock. Other books by Thomas include the novels Letters from Hades (Bedlam Press) and Monstrocity (Prime Books), and the novella Godhead Dying Downwards (Earthling Publications). The German edition of Punktown has cover art by H. R. Giger. For more info see http://punktalk.punktowner.com.
We got a great suggestion from one of our backers: why not post some fiction of Jeff's to build more interest? Why not indeed? Jeff provided links to two short stories available for free on the web. Read up and dive in, my friends:
Enjoy! Want more? We did, and you probably do, too. Check out Jeff's page on Amazon.com!
Michael "Talien" Tresca is the National RPG and Sci-Fi Movie Examiner and recently published three books, the non-fiction history of gaming, The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games from McFarland Publishing, his fantasy fiction debut, The Well of Stars, from Three Ravens Books, and the young adult fantasy Awfully Familiar from Dark Quest Books. Michael has authored numerous supplements and adventures for publishers of Open Game License and D20-compatible games, including AEG, MonkeyGod Enterprises, Goodman Games, Otherworld Creations, Privateer Press, RPGObjects and Ronin Arts. A top 1,000 reviewer for Amazon, his articles and reviews have appeared in Allgame.com, D20 Filtered, Dragon Magazine, Gamers.com, Pyramid, RPG.net, and Sharktopus. He has participated in panels about electronic and tabletop role-playing games at ConnectiCon, Dragon*Con, and I-Con. For more info see http://michael.tresca.net.
Brian M. Sammons has been writing reviews on all things horror for more years than he’d care to admit. Wanting to give other critics the chance to ravage his work for a change, he has penned a few short stories that have appeared in such anthologies as Arkham Tales, Horrors Beyond, Monstrous, Dead but Dreaming 2, Horror for the Holidays, Hellfire Club 3, Twisted Legends, Letters from the Dead, Over the Mountains of Madness, and Once Upon an Apocalypses. He has edited the shot story anthologies; Cthulhu Unbound 3, Undead & Unbound, Eldritch Chrome, Edge of Sundown, and Steampunk Cthulhu. For Call of Cthulhu he wrote the book Secrets, has contributed to both Keeper’s Companions, wrote a companion scenario for the Keeper’s Screen, and has had scenarios in the books Terrors From Beyond, The San Francisco Guidebook, Houses of R’lyeh, Strange Aeons 2, Atomic Age Cthulhu, and Doors to Darkness. His first novella, The R’lyeh Singularity, co-written with David Conyers, just came out and he is currently far too busy for any sane man. For more about this guy that neighbors describe as "such a nice, quiet man" you can check out his very infrequently updated webpage here: http://brian_sammons.webs.com/.
 
 
In addition to running Miskatonic River Press, Tom Lynch has written scenarios for New Tales of the Miskatonic Valley, More Adventures in Arkham Country, and such forthcoming books as Tales of the Sleepless City and Chaosium's Doors to Darkness and Atomic Age Cthulhu. Tom has also pried his way into the fiction market and has short fiction in Horror for the Holidays from MRP, and will be appearing in Undead and Unbound, Eldritch Chrome, and another soon-to-be-announced appearance (all three books from Chaosium) as well as such magazines as Tales of the Talisman and the Lovecraft eZine.Tom has been an avid Punktown and Jeffrey Thomas fan for some time now, and is ecstatic to be a part of a project that will bring gamers into this new, dark, twisted world. For more of the story on Tom, check out http://www.miskatonicriverpress.com/about/bio_tom.shtml.
So like I said before...welcome to Punktown! Now gimme your wallet.
 
 

 

Kickstarter: The Littlest Shoggoth, a Holiday Tale of the Cthulhu Mythos


Via Kickstarter:

"The Littlest Shoggoth is a children’s story written and illustrated by longtime game industry veteran, Stan! It was originally released for free on the website StoryTimeWithStan.com and was subsequently published in a very limited print run by Super Genius Games. Since that edition went out of print, the book has been unavailable (though the story can still be read online).
For a long time we’ve wanted to bring the book back into print in a premium edition, and now with your help, we hope to do just that.
If we can raise just $5,000 in pledges, we can bring The Littlest Shoggoth back into print with a high-quality print run that will allow it to reach a broader audience and become the quirky holiday tradition that it deserves to be.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Littlest Shoggoth is a 50-page story that tells the tale of Squammy, the smallest of all the Mythos creatures living around the lost and sunken city of R’lyeh. Tired of being picked, Squammy decides to explore the world above the waves. To put it mildly, things do not go well. But with some help from Santa Claus, maybe things can turn out right for Squammy after all.
Inspired by the tales of Dr. Seuss, Edward Gorey, and (of course) H.P. Lovecraft, the Littlest Shoggoth is equally cute and disturbing. It will be a surefire hit with fans of quirky family entertainment like The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Addams Family, Coraline, Emily the Strange, and Scary Godmother.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stan! has been publishing comics, games, and fiction for more than 30 years, and has been nominated for major awards in all three disciplines. His work has appeared in products supporting popular series including Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance, Star Wars, Marvel Super Heroes, Pokémon, and Legend of Zelda.
Stan! has also been a strong supporter of Kickstarter over the last couple of years, pledging to more than 35 different campaigns using his personal account.
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
Although this account is new, Super Genius Games has run two previous Kickstarter campaigns using the personal account of one of our founders, Hyrum Savage.
Super Genius Games is the publisher of best-selling third-party tabletop RPG products for games such as the Pathfinder RPG, Call of Cthulhu, and Savage Worlds. They have released at least one PDF product every week since November of 2009, as well as a handful of printed products (including the original publication of The Littlest Shoggoth).
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
The initial publication of The Littlest Shoggoth was a critical success. Below are some review quotes based on that original edition.
“Cute, evil, vicious, and brilliant. God help us, everyone.” —John Kovalic, Dork Tower
“There is nothing I don’t like about this book. Pure, concentrated awesome.” —Wil Wheaton, WilWheaton.net
“The perfect holiday tale for any fan of the Cthulhu Mythos.” —Matt Forbeck, author of the Monster Academy triolgy
“It combines delightful art, can-do optimism, and inevitable doom as only Stan! can.” —Kenneth Hite, Cthulhu 101
“Stan! is a genius when it comes to Cthuhlu.” —Wolfgang Baur, Kobold Quarterly
“A beautifully bizarre holiday tale.” —Brad Guigar, Evil, Inc.
“The stars are right to read The Littlest Shoggoth.” —John Tynes, The Unspeakable Oath
That original printing faced several obstacles, though. It was done on a tight budget, and the quality of the printing was not as high as we’d have liked. As a result, it didn’t get the attention from distributors or retailers that we think it deserved.
The new version would be done using standard printing processes, as opposed to the print-on-demand process that was used last time. The book would still be 5.5” x 8.5” in size and 56 pages in length, but this time it would have a square perfect binding, not the folded and side-stapled binding the original had.
Most importantly, since we’re using Kickstarter, we’re skipping past the middlemen and gatekeepers to bring the book straight to you—the audience we know will love and want to support The Littlest Shoggoth, and make it a part of your own library of Lovecraftian tales and holiday favorites."

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Teaser Trailer: A Dawning Darkness




Recap of the HPLFF (LA) by Mike Tice



Mike Tice reviews the HP Lovecraft Film Festival (Los Angeles) on his blog:







The post was kindly pointed out to us by Aaron Vanek.




Saturday, November 3, 2012

Artwork for Dark Sleep by Brett Piper






This is the artwork for the recently completed Dark Sleep, a (in Brett's own words) very loose adaptation of Lovecrafts' "The Dreams in the Witch House". 

New HPL flash game

via e-mail from Rolando Gutierrez


"A new HPL flash game is being developed and is nearing completion-which will include all other platforms as well as a CD release. 

Stop motion, names as Steve Sessions, Brett Piper, Richard Svesson, actors David C Hayes, Lucien Eisenach, Heather Price, and Bob Dennis-contributions by Tim Ritter- and produced by yours truly, Rolando Gutierrez. 

I will have a website up soon archeonmedia.com for the game home site-it goes to all the portals.  Screengrabs and behind the scenes coming available. Stop motion, live actors, photographic backgrounds!"

Unabridged reading The Case of Charles Dexter Ward,






Via e-mail from William E. Hart:


"The free unabridged reading and performance by SAG-AFTRA actor William E. Hart, of H. P. Lovecraft's, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, is now complete on CthulhuWho1.com!

In my mind, H. P. Lovecraft's, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, reads more like a work of non-fiction, rater than fiction; and because of this, I hope you'll listen to my reading and performances as an audio documentary with reenactments by all of the voices that have finally escaped from my head, and been brought to audio life; including Marinus, Theodore, Joseph, Charles, Jedediah/Simon, Edward, and several others."


The reading can be found here



Friday, October 26, 2012

Road to Hell: News and Announcements

 
 
 
Albert Pyun via e-mail:
 
"My film ROAD TO HELL is the opening night selection by PollyGrind. RTH won Best Picture last weekend at a fest in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Here are links to the PollyGrind Fest announcement about selections:"
 
Here are the promised links via Couchcutter, more via Couchcutter, Dreadcentral and joblo.com 
 
 
 
 
 

Cool Air: News and Announcements



"Cool Air has been selected as the closing night film by the PollyGrind Film Festival in Las Vegas. It screens at the Rave Motion Picture Cinemas on Oct 27 and is in competition for several awards.
 
But before that, it will have its premiere during The Estepona International Film Festival of Horror and Fantasy in Spain (which is very appropriate once you see the film). Again, It was selected as the closing night film and screens on September 26."
 
(via e-mail by Albert Pyun)

H. P. Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward William E. Hart Multi-Voice Teasers

Just in via e-mail: Craig received this e-mail earlier from Will Hart (aka CthulhuWho1)

"This file let's you hear a mixed batch of sound-bites from all of the major characters in Lovecraft's tale that have been living in my head for months while I've worked on this project.  
And I hope this set of teasers will increase the public's interest in this far too over-looked work, and in the reading/performance I am uploading right now to CthulhuWho1.com.
Your comments are very welcome."

 
 
The trailer can be found via YouTube at
and in MP3 on http://CthulhuWho1.com

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

New take on: Herbert West: Re-Animator

 
This is, according to the youtube.com entry "a school project" ... We'll keep you updated when we see (and hear!) more. For now, this is only available as a silent movie version:
 


The Necronomicon (Humor)

 
"Do you want to be a nicer person? Are you looking for inspiration to do good things? Well keep looking. But if you're into opening up terrifying vistas of reality then the Esoteric Order of the Old Ones and Cthulhu Cultists want to help. Contact us today to find out how."

Kickstarter: Where Terror Sleeps!


The Kickstarter promo page has this to say about the movie:

"We are film students who are in the middle of production to make a film adapted from HP Lovecraft's original 1919 story "The Statement of Randolph Carter." We are looking for just a bit of funding to help put legs on this micro-budget film!

Adapted from a popular HP Lovecraft story, "Where Terror Sleeps!" will be creepy and atmospheric, paying homage to Lovecraft's style.
The film is about a graduate assistant who follows a professor on an adventure to discover a terrible secret hidden in an ancient tomb. The film is Carter's recounting of the horrific events that took place on this adventure.
We will constantly be updating the page with information about the progress of the production."

Monday, September 24, 2012

HPL Film Festival Playlists (Portland)



The homepage of the HPL Film Festival(s) kindly provides us with a programme for the upcoming movies and shorts. 

Please find more information about each movie and the Festival via the provided links.
Portland 2012 short films

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A comedy/horror short about an H.P. Lovecraft fan boy who buys a book online that he thinks will help him summon a real Cthulhu monster.
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Artist Mike Dubisch engages in quick sketching magic for the split screen camera. Shot in one take, with music courtesy of Mars.
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A cursed statue of the God Yig is found in Arizona by an Archeologist, he's killed, and the statue falls into the hands of his friend who must get rid of it to break the curse.
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A punk girl, Alyce, travels through a David Lynch/Maya Deren adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft short story. She travels through a strange land with stranger inhabitants to find a mysterious violin player who holds too many secrets for this new world.
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Night falls, shadows creep out, and the time has come for little Timmy to go to bed. But can he brave the ominous gaze of his closet door?
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The Black Pharaoh runs amok, accompanied by a bristling score of Swedish Death Metal. Footage cut from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's The Whisperer in Darkness is reborn in the hands of the HPLHS' Mike Dalager.
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The Captured Bird is a darkly poetic fable that begins with a little girl drawing figures of people with chalk on the cement of a playground. She takes notice of an unusual crack in the pavement that is seeping a mysterious black fluid, which she follows to an ominous mansion. Inside, she encounters several bizarre phenomena, including walls that bleed black and tentacles that emerge from the ceiling to touch her. She then witnesses the birth of five terrifying supernatural beings that threaten the existence of her world.
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What happens when you insist on using your phone in the theater? Noisy clowns will find you!
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Chompers is a shape-changing monster which disguises itself as something round, waiting for its prey to slip an appendage into its mouth. In the wild, it took the shape of hollowed out logs and stumps. In suburbia, its found trashcans, cookie jars, coffee cups, and so much more.
It gets bigger and better at camouflage as it eats. Read more
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Sidney Sanders is a is a man with a new piano and a loving wife, but an other worldly melody pulls him into a bizarre but strangely familiar world.
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Artist Mike Dubisch engages in quick sketching magic for the split screen camera. Shot in one take, with music courtesy of Mars.
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Want to make selling your soul quick and easy? Cultist Co (Voted the 2012 "Supplier of the Apocalypse") has you covered!
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Peerless science student Walter Gilman meets his match in Eve Walpurgis and promptly falls in love. But when Eve is taken by an extra dimensional terror, Walter is forced to summon a demon of his own: the anachronistic Doctor Glamour! An outrageous sci-fi musical comedy with psychedelic special effects, sexy sharp humor and a slew of hard hitting rock numbers.
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A homeless mime, down on his luck, discovers a secret from his past that gives his talents a disturbing and supernatural twist.
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This half-hour short, starring Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, and David Warner was to be part of the horror anthology Pulse Pounders, which never saw the light of day. After decades of languishing in the vault, attendees of the Los Angeles festival will be blessed with a sneak preview look at this forgotten gem weeks before it's released on DVD, courtesy of Full Moon Horror and Charles Band.
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A S.W.A.T. team is called into action to respond to a missing police offer in the dead of night. What originally seemed like a routine call has left a grizzly scene inside a home, and the officers find more than their training prepared them for. "Feed A" is a marriage between horror/sci-fi/and the found footage genre. Will they get out of this house alive, or worse, find the truth of the terrible events that were taking place before they arrived?
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Abigail Thelma wishes desperately to speak to her dead father from the world of the living. She begins a journey to seek out a fortune telling gypsy with disastrous consequences.
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GAMMA is a story of urban regeneration in a nuclear irradiated future. GAMMA, a new urban developer proposes to regenerate the cities back into civilisation. GAMMA sets out to stabilise the atomic mistakes of yesteryear for the re-inhabitation of future generations. Using its patented "Nuke-Root" technology; part fungi, part mollusk, GAMMA intends to soak up the radiation and remove it from the irradiated cities, rebuilding them in the process. Read more
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In the waters of a distant island there lurks a giant squid. When his mother disappears, young George Jones begins his hunt for the beast, and will risk everything to find the truth.
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Doctor William Dyer may be the smartest theoretical physicist alive, but he has just blown it. 

After a routine CERN experiment goes horribly wrong, Dyer has to get to the emergency data access facility he has installed in an abandoned building nearby.
A race against time to avoid unthinkable Armageddon turns into something else - a struggle with himself and his own guilt. Only now, he not alone.
Something older than time itself that has been waiting through the aeons for the chance to return.
And now, the door is open.
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Cosmic imagery abounds in this piece set to the music of Ray Noble and his orchestra in honor of the 75th anniversary of the passing of H.P. Lovecraft.
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The Music of Jo Hyeja is a cross-cultural adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Music of Erich Zann': a young student living in a ghetto on the edge of Seoul named Miju, encounters a mysterious upstairs neighbor, an elderly zither-player named Jo Hyeja whose bizarre musical performances fill the air each night.
A mysterious window in Mrs. Jo's lightless upper room beckons menacingly, calling Miju to the attic. Will she survive her brush with the ancient, macabre terrors summoned by a song that shatters the laws of music, sanity, and the very universe itself?
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A man is visited in his dreams by terrifying creatures. A short adaptation of H P Lovecraft's poem, with stop-motion animated monsters.
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The skeleton of a rat-monkey comes to life in a room full of cursed objects in this Gothic tale with a sci-fi twist. This is the 5th film in the award winning 'Chimerascope' series by MTV and SY FY channel station ID veteran, Aurelio Voltaire. Narrated by electro-Goth, New Wave icon, Gary Numan.
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The story of Ken, who responds to an ad for a mail-order bride. He didn't expect that some assembly was required.
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Following the break-up of Mystery Inc., the gang moves on with their lives by touring a nearby university, but the campus is terrorized by a mysterious creature known as Char Gar Gothakon, whose screams can destroy anything in its path. With the voices of Jeffrey Combs as "H.P. Hatecraft" and Harlan Ellison as Himself.
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A man, suffering from a brain injury, tries to reconnect with his past by developing old film strips of pictures he doesn’t even remember.
Everything leads him to a strange gas station…where the man will face his worst nightmare.
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An adaptation of H P Lovecraft's famous sci-fi story. The hero, an academic from Miskatonic University, Arkham, gradually goes mad as he starts to realize that his mind and body was kidnapped during a span of several years, and used by a strange alien race known as the Yith…
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A barbershop quartet fears their moment out of the spotlight.(Shown in 3D!)
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It was only a matter of time before mutant bugs from space invaded Portland, Oregon killing everything in their wake. A young woman rushes home to warn her husband. Will she get there in time?
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An out-of-work father undergoes an experimental treatment to take care of his baby…with strange results.
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An adaptation of the legendary writer H.P. Lovecraft's story by the same name which follows a young academic searching for the legend of the infamous snake god, Yig, but who finds a story more disturbing than anything she ever could have imagined.
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A young boy discovers a corpse while biking in the woods, then faces unexpected and macabre consequences when he tries to bury it. Read more
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Written by Michael Reaves, this is the first introduction of Cthulhu to the small screen, and a classic, landmark episode where the Ghostbusters must track down a stolen copy of the Necronomicon.
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Robert Whipple accompanies his uncle, amateur ghost hunter Eli Whipple, as they investigate the uneasy history of the house on Benefit Street in Maelstrom Productions’ adaptation of Lovecraft’s short story.
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While studying the ecosystem of a lake, an ambitious science student discovers a strange and sinister artifact. Fascinated by it, he shows it to his professor, who immediately recognizes it as something dangerous. When the professor attempts to destroy the artifact, the student takes it and flees, studying it on his own. When it is stolen from him by a mysterious figure, the student must confront the horrifying nature of the artifact.
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Engulfed by dark thoughts, she is forced into a tunnel to confront the creature who is waiting for her in the dark.
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When moving into an old flat Katja and Andreas discover a mysterious old Chest left by the previous tenant. Soon Katja discovers what really is inside the sinister old circus prop—and becomes another victim of Vadim…