News from the land of Yig...

Tim Uren has checked in with the first in a series of weekly updates regarding the upcoming film The Curse of Yig! Read on for more…

Paul and I have a completed screenplay we are both very happy with. Capturing the language of the original story was a very high priority for us and I think the film will definitely feel like classic Lovecraft even if the Oklahoma setting is a distinct departure from the small New England towns more commonly associated with him.

The screenplay has proven a great format for capturing the "stories within stories" element of the original text. In a very brief span of time, the script manages to generate a multi-layered narration, resonating back and forth between through-lines. We're obviously very excited to get started on filming.

In all other aspects of preproduction, we have been unbelievably lucky. The sets we have found to film on are phenomenal. We begin shooting cabin scenes on Friday the 12th, with asylum scenes the week after that.

So for the moment, the real update is we're ready to go and feeling good. More stories next week, once the cameras start to roll.

(Thanks to Tim Uren and Paul von Stoetzel)

Die Farbe completion draws near...

Die Farbe, writer/director Huan Vu's German adaptation of The Colour out of Space, is a couple of weeks from completion according to the director. "Completion is overdue, I know, but we're still not there, although it can only be a question of a couple of weeks." Huan tells Unfilmable.com, "90% of the music, 66% of the sound and 80% of the visual effects are done so far."

Visit die-farbe.com to sign up for the new newsletter service, and keep informed about news regarding the release of the film...

(Thanks to Huan Vu)

Cthulhu: The Funksical...

Check out the latest album by Mocha Lab, titled Cthulhu: The Funksical! According to Unfilmable.com reader Paul Shapera, the album tells a pretty whimsical story involving Yog Sothoth, Nyarlahtep, Cthulhu, funk, reggae, planetary annihilation and cannibus...



(Thanks to Paul Shapera)

The Tell-Tale Heart movie coming Winter 2010...

Director/producer Michael Swertfager sends word that his computer generated movie The Tell-Tale Heart will be released sometime this winter! You can check out the trailer here, or visit the official site here...

Winter 2010, Edgar Allan Poe comes to life in the computer generated horror movie "The Tell-Tale Heart". Sink into your seat as Edgar cunningly stalks and preys upon the Old Man, to rid himself of the evil vulture eye. Set in the Allan family mansion on the outskirts of Richmond, Poe's genius and insanity intertwine as he commits the most heinous acts and conceals it from the authorities...

(Thanks to Michael Swertfager)

The ghost of Colour from the Dark...

The following video documentary chronicles the story of Trevor, the ghost that infested the set of Ivan Zuccon's Colour from the Dark. Titled "My memories of the ghost we named Trevor", the doc is narrated by the great Debbie Rochon...



The latest Colour from the Dark review can be found over on Unrated Magazine...

"COLOUR FROM THE DARK sets new standards for Lovecraftian filmmakers..."

- Unrated Magazine

(Thanks to Ivan Zuccon)

At the Mountains of del Toro...

The Wellington, New Zealand Dominion-Post newspaper spoke with Guillermo del Toro recently and the following is an excerpt from the January 20th edition as transcribed by Unfilmable.com forum member Mikeythorn. This is just a portion of a longer piece (not available online) that contains information on Lovecraft, the plot of At the Mountains of Madness and information on other Lovecraft film adaptations...

"[he estimates it will cost US$90 million to make the movie but]... he still has to convince Hollywood. "We are trying to do it, but it is a very expensive movie," says del Toro. "Its difficult to have a movie like that without Hollywood and it's almost impossible to have it done with Hollywood. It's a conundrum because it's a move that [would cost] about US$90 million, but US$90 million means they [Hollywood] don't understand a horrifyingly unhappy ending and the fact there's no love story. It's a purely cosmic horror where man is not the hero but just vermin created for the amusement of a larger species. There are so many ideas that are alien to [Hollywood], no pun intended."

Del Toro hasn't ruled out the possibility of even a small amount of filming actually taking place in Antarctica. Some of the events in Lovecraft's story take place at McMurdo Sound.

"I've always wanted to do that. It is still a possibility. One of the first things that came up with the studios was the liability and insurance issues of taking a formal giant crew to Antarctica. But what I learned technically on Hellboy and Blade allowed me to do Pan's Labyrinth. It is my belief that what I learned on Hellboy 2 and [will] on The Hobbit will allow me to go out and make At the Mountains of Madness, even if its not in Antarctica."

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"I want to do it. If Peter [Jackson] had the Rings trilogy and James Cameron had Titanic - there are movies that you think are a mission to do. My mission in my life is to make At the Mountains of Madness if I can."

You can visit the Unfilmable.com forum by clicking here...

(Thanks to Mikeythorn)

Nevermore press...

Source: An Actor's Notebook

Chris Kaltenbach of the Baltimore Sun interviews Jeffrey Combs and Stuart Gordon here...

Lee Gardner of the Baltimore City Paper talks with Jeffrey Combs here...

Jessie Lilley at Mondo Cult Magazine gets the inside scoop from Mark Redfield here...

(Thanks to Mark Redfield)

La Herencia Valdemar in Spanish theaters tomorrow...

Universal Pictures International is set to release part one of Jose Luis Aleman's La Herencia Valdemar in Spanish theaters tomorrow, January 22nd! The film stars horror legend Paul Naschy (who passed away last November), Daniele Liotti, Oscar Jaenada, Laia Marull and Silvia Abascal, and is set in Victorian England and the present...

The film revolves around a young woman who specializes in antique furniture restoration that disappears near the old, creepy house of Lázaro Valdemar. A detective tries to find the missing woman and discovers that the mansion has a checkered, dark history involving an ancient Dunwich ritual performed in the 19th century…

Info on a Stateside release has yet to be announced...


(Thanks to Innsmouth Free Press)

The Last Lovecraft trailer debuts...

The trailer for Henry Saine's Relic of Cthulhu, now officialy titled The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu, has debuted over on bloody-disgusting.com (you can view the YouTube version below)! The rough draft premiered at the 2009 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and the finished cut of the film is scheduled to screen January 24th at 12:30pm (encore Tuesday, January 26th at 5:30pm) as part of the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah...

Henry Saine tells Unfilmable.com that the official website will be up soon, and that updates are forthcoming...

About the film: Jeff, a down on his luck office worker, finds out he is the last living relative of horror novelist H.P. Lovecraft. What he doesn't know is that Lovecraft's monsters are real and will soon threaten the very existence of mankind. Jeff and his best friend Charlie are forced to embark on a perilous adventure and they enlist the help of high school acquaintance, Paul, a self proclaimed Lovecraft specialist. Together the three unlikely heroes must protect an alien relic and prevent the release of an acient evil, known as Cthulhu...


(Thanks to Henry Saine and twitchfilm.net)

Vigor Mortis on DVD...

Kristof Mateusen and Frederic Cervini's Dutch language thriller Vigor Mortis (which we first covered here) is now available on DVD through Fifth Floor Films! The DVD features the movie in Dutch with available English subtitles, interviews with cast and crew (in Dutch), a crew training featurette, a cast rehearsal featurette and deleted scenes and outtakes...

Click here to purchase...


(Thanks to fifthfloorfilm.com)