Lovecraft Paragraphs soundtrack now available

If you're like me and missed the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival this year (*sniff*) you may be interested to read first-time filmmaker Reber Clark's impressions of the event. The Lovecraft News Network has posted his thoughts on the festival, where he premiered his short film, "Lovecraft Paragraphs."

The film earned warm praise from the likes of S.T. Joshi and others, but it apparently provoked the opposite reaction in some. Festival director Andrew Migliore called it "...the most controversial film at the festival this year."

"Lovecraft Paragraphs" presents selected paragraphs from Lovecraft's work using effects, animation and electronic voices.

If you'd like to experience the film in audio form, Clark has released the soundtrack as an MP3 album through Amazon. $8.99 gets you two versions of the music -- with and without the narration.

The album is for sale here.

LCN's interview with Clark is here.

For more about "Lovecraft Paragraphs" visit http://lovecraftparagraphs.blogspot.com

Four Colors Out of Space

Greetings, lurkers! My name is Mike Boas, and Craig has asked if I could help contribute to the awe-inspiring Unfilmable while he relocates to some far off netherworld... I think he called it Oklahoma. As a long time lover of Lovecraft, I'm happy to do so. And now on with my first story...

Last week was Boris Karloff's birthday (I hope you celebrated) and many horror blogs honored the iconic actor by digging deep for weird photos and stories to post.

Two such posts that may be of interest to the HPL crowd are courtesy of Cinebeats and The Groovy Age of Horror.

Cinebeats has a brief review of "Die, Monster, Die!" -- which we all know as the slightly-less-than-literal adaptation of "The Colour out of Space." But the icing on the cake is posted over at Groovy Age... scanned images from the Dell comic book adaptation of the movie adaptation. Who knew a wheelchair-bound Karloff could look so vibrant in four colors?

Some readers have guessed that the comic artist might be John Tartaglione. If you know different, let them know!

See 11 pages of cosmic horror here.

Read Cinebeats' review here.

Free ATROM screening...

For Immediate Release:

Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009
Time: 8:05pm - 9:05pm
Location: 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON

FREE preview screening for the cast, crew and friends of At The Reefers Of Madness and The Whimsical Notions Of A Strange Deer Girl.

When I say FREE, I mean it, please come and enjoy the finished versions of these two shorts (plus a couple other very short shorts), and tell everyone you know and bring as many friends as you can. These are being submitted to fests right now, so they won't be online for many months and this will be your ONLY chance to see them until then. I may also screen The Seventh Shadow, which was recently accepted and shown at the HP Lovecraft Film Fest in Portland, OR.

At The Reefers Of Madness is a Lovecraft-influenced stoner comedy that imagines what would happen if modern college students attending Miskatonic University found themselves in the possession of the ancient book of evil, The Necronomicon. Instead of using it to obtain limitless power, they only want to conjure more weed for themselves. A Disciple of the Great Old Ones offers to grant their wish in exchange for a sacrifice, and soon the students find themselves 'laughing and killing in joy' as absurdity and insanity ensue.

The Whimsical Notions Of A Strange Deer Girl is a short musical project starring and featuring the music of Hank Pine and Lily Fawn and tells the story of the mysterious Deer Girl of the forest who ventures into the city, finds herself captured by an evil circus, and escapes with the help of Hank, until she decides to rescue babies from their evil alien parents with the help of a UFO that takes her into space.

The screening will be held at the Innis Town Hall theatre on the University of Toronto campus, at the corner of St. George and Sussex ave. The easiest way to get here if you are taking TTC is get off the subway at St. George station and exit via the St. George street exit. Walk south one block from Bloor onto the U of T campus, and turn right onto Sussex, the theatre is on the right (the north side of the street). We're screening pretty early (8PM) so that you can still go out after.

For more on ATROM - http://frontlinefilms.net/reefers.html
For music from Hank & Lily - http://hankandlily.com/

(Thanks to Brian Clement)

Aaron Vanek's 2009 HPLFF recap...

Aaron Vanek's review/recap of the 2009 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival is available courtesy of the Innsmouth Free Press...

Check it out here...

(Thanks to Aaron Vanek)

"The Silver Key" Official Poster

Official poster for "The Silver Key"(2010)starring Conor Timmis as Randolph Carter. Also stars rocker Kris Keyes, lead singer of the band "Gargantua Soul". Diretced by Gary Fierro.

Altitude trailer takes off...

A temp trailer has appeared for comic writer/artist Kaare Andrews Lovecraftian thriller, Altitude! The film stars Jessica Lowndes and revolves around a small plane with a mysterious malfunction that climbs out of control putting a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends in a showdown with a malevolent supernatural force...

Check it out below...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

Strange Adventures is coming to an end...

Issue #4 of Image Comics The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft hit comic shops this week! Strange Adventures was created by Mac Carter (story), Tony Salmons (art) and Adam Byrne (covers), and retails for $4.99...

This is the final issue of the series, so now begins the long wait for Ron Howard's big-budget Hollywood adaptation...


(Thanks to www.bloody-disgusting.com)

RI Author HP Lovecraft Explored...

Providence/New Bedford (ABC 6) News Reporter Julie Ruditzky takes a look at the life and work of HPL...

A Halloween leftover...



(Thanks to www.abc6.com)

Lovecraftian monstrosities await...

Bloody-disgusting.com caught up with Mortis Rex writer/director Peter Briggs at the American Film Market and grabbed even more exclusive artwork and some interesting words from the man himself...

"I've been working solidly the last month with our creature designer, Paul Mendoza, and our intention's to portray onscreen the baddest, nastiest, Lovecraftian-level monstrosity you've ever seen. If you're a fanboy, you'll know Paul's work...he sculpted Wayne Barlowe's "Decurion" for Sideshow a while back, and the guy's really a pocket genius. I've never seen anything like our creature, onscreen, ever. Period. I zap sketches to Paul, and he blasts finished renderings back over the internet, and then I scribble and Photoshop over them, and zap them back. I've had a vision in my head about what the thing should look like since I started writing "Mortis", but right now we're about 80% there, and our Big Chap just keeps looking scarier and weirder every time my email goes "ping". He's an extremely visually complex creation. He'd eat "Hellboy's" Ogdru Jahad for breakfast."

- Peter Briggs

Head over to bloody-disgusting.com for more...

artwork by Stuart Jennett

(Thanks to www.bloody-disgusting.com)

The Evil Dead returns to the big screen...

Bloody-disgusting.com reports that Grindhouse Releasing has secured the rights to show 35mm prints of Sam Raimi's horror classic The Evil Dead across North America in 2010. Dates and venues will be announced through GrindhouseReleasing.com. For bookings, contact David Szulkin...

"Nothing can prepare an audience for what they are about to see, because nothing punishes an audience like EVIL DEAD - especially on the big screen. I'm really glad it's back. People are gonna be hurt."

- Bruce Campbell


(Thanks to www.bloody-disgusting.com)