Guy de Maupassant's Le Horla...

Said to have inspired the writing of H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu, Guy de Maupassant's Le Horla has now inspired filmmaker Agostino Toscana, who turned the story into a hauntingly shot 35 minute movie...

In regards to Le Horla, Lovecraft wrote the following in his Supernatural Horror in Literature, "Relating the advent in France of an invisible being who lives on water and milk, sways the minds of others, and seems to be the vanguard of a horde of extra-terrestrial organisms arrived on earth to subjugate and overwhelm mankind, this tense narrative is perhaps without peer in its particular department."

The film, written by Agostino and Gianfranco Manfredi, stars Michael Bender and Charles Fathy...

Click here for more...



(Thanks to Grim Reviews)

Lainy Voom's Dagon...

Created by Lainy Voom (Trace Sanderson), Dagon is an example of what is known as Machinima, or animation rendered in real time, that according to the creator, started as a film in a noir/comic style using a digital novel format. As the film progressed, however, it took on a life of its own and became more of a traditional film, not nearly as weird as Lainy had initially imagined...

Check it out below...

Dagon - HP Lovecraft from Lainy Voom on Vimeo.

(Thanks to z-studios.com)

Shooting the Whisperer...

Sean Branney sends word that he and Andrew Leman (and the rest of the cast and crew) shot Friday and Saturday night on The Whisperer in Darkness and are now very close to being done with principal photography. He also revealed that a new three minute trailer will be released later this week...

Visit the official production blog for more...


(Thanks to Sean Branney)

Rudimentary Peni, Lovecraftian punk gods...

Back in the late 80's I purchased a cassette that would plant the star-spawned seeds of Unfilmable.com firmly into my already Lovecraft riddled mind, and believe it or not, I still listen to that tape today...

The tape that I speak of is Cacophony by Rudimentary Peni...a death punk tribute to HPL that worms its way into your head like the tentacles of some Lovecraftian monstrosity...

A quick look at the bands website shows that they are still active and churning out new material, and a recent article on Dread Central proves that the band still has an audience after all these years...

...an audience that is well deserved.

Thanks for the inspiration Nick...


(Thanks to Dread Central)

First news: Unfilmable Fest...

The first annual Unfilmable.com Unfilmable Fest, presented by Art Sunday's Underground Horror Filmfest, will take place July 17th, 2010 in Tulsa, Oklahoma!

The Silver Key (by Timmis and Fierro), Brian Clement's At the Reefers of Madness, The Shunned House from Maelstrom Productions, The Other Gods (animation by Mike Boas), From Beyond (stop motion short by Michael Granberry) and a variety of clips and trailers (films to be announced) are scheduled to appear!

More news soon!

Madness at A Night of Horror...

Brian Clement's At The Reefers of Madness has been added to the schedule of A Night Of Horror film festival in Sydney, Australia! The film stars Luke Marty, Calwyn Shurgold, Jeff Orchard, Dan Pagett, Kyle Maguire and Danielle Barker...

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 offer 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...

Click here for more...


(Thanks to Brian Clement)

From the Set: Tablets of the Gods

Tablets of the Gods is now two whole weeks into production. Crew has been working hard to facilitate the detailed requirements of each scenes 1920's setting, and to portray the stories atmosphere effectively. Still a long way to go from completion, but the film is shaping up nicely to finish primary photography by the end of April.


(Thanks to Woodruff)

Doug Bradley's talks TWO Lovecraft projects...

Horror icon Doug Bradley (Pinhead from the ongoing Hellraiser series) spoke with fangoria.com recently about his dislike for remakes and some potential projects including two Lovecraft films, which you can read about below. One film, The Gathering, would team Bradley (as Bram Stoker) with Jeffrey Combs as Edgar Allan Poe and David Naughton, who would play H.P. Lovecraft...

"There's a wonderful horror/comedy script I was sent called DEADLY TANTRUM, which is really, really good. It's a Lovecraft comedy, but it takes Lovecraft very seriously. It's about a rather slow-witted serial killer who has a Cthulhu worm living in his brain that he feeds cheese sandwiches. And every time he kills someone, a portal opens and the soul is fed to Cthulhu, and when he has killed 50 people, Cthulhu can break through the portal and take control of the world. And he has this list of people he wants to kill, which is anyone who's ever worked in public relations—and the 50th victim is anyone who buys an Elton John album. It's very funny, and there's a very nice part in it for me," Bradley tells the site, "There's another one called THE GATHERING which has come my way that's like an Amicus movie; the idea is basically that Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe meet every Halloween to tell stories to the devil, and he chooses the winner. They want me to play Bram Stoker, and they tell me they've got David Naughton to play Lovecraft and they're talking to Jeffrey Combs about playing Poe. If the three of us are going to do it together, then I'm on board, because that would be tremendous. That's the landscape I live in. You wait for the green light."

Head over to fangoria.com for more...

(Thanks to fangoria.com)

A Night of Lovecraft...

Mr. Noyes, a 2 min short film shot by Gary Fierro and Conor Timmis will screen at the 2010 Night of Horror Film Festival in Sydney, Australia! The short was originally shot as a video audition for the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's adaptation of The Whisperer in Darkness. In it, Conor Timmis (Pickman's Model, The Silver Key) plays the part of "Mr. Noyes"...

You can watch it here...


(Thanks to Conor Timmis)

Latest Colour screening announced...

Ivan Zuccon's Colour from the Dark continues to make an impact with its recent DVD release and various festival screenings around the world! On March 21st, it screened at Italy's Fantasy Horror Award, where a variety of horror celebrities attended including Mick Garris, Brian Yuzna, Robert Englund and Jaume Balaguero...

Next up for the film is a screening on April 28th at the Cinergia with full HD projection! Ivan's film Bad Brains will also be part of this special presentation...

Last, but not least, the Indie Horror interview we told you about here, has now been posted in English here. For another interview with Ivan (this one in Italian), head over to alCinema.Org...


(Thanks to Ivan Zuccon)

Watch Binding Silence online...

Ray Zablocki's award winning short film Binding Silence can now be seen online in its entirety (watch it below)! The film, a Lovecraftian tale of supernatural addiction and cosmic horror, is a brand new cut with revamped color and a shorter running time (all overseen by the director)...

About the film: William Barner works with his uncle Henry in the family owned bookstore. As Henry attempts to solve their current financial burdens he begins to notice an unnatural obsession taking hold of William. Their confrontation will put far more than the fate of the store at risk...

Binding Silence from Ray Zablocki on Vimeo.

(Thanks to Ray Zablocki)

Bloody Splatterhouse images appear...

Head over to fangoria.com for a bunch of bloody new images from Splatterhouse, Namco Bandai's updating of the arcade classic! The original game was littered with Lovecraftian elements including a certain Dr. Herbert West and the dread Necronomicon...

Look for it on the PS3 and Xbox360 later this year...


(Thanks to fangoria.com)

Late Bloomer screening next week...

For Immediate Release:

Craig Macneill's Late Bloomer, a favorite here at Unfilmable.com, will screen March 31st at the Maple Arts Theater in Bloomfield Hills, MI (4135 West Maple Road at Telegraph). Tickets are $7 at the door (advanced ticket sales available at Maple Art), and seating is limited. Doors will open at 7:PM and the event will begin at 7:30...

Hit the above link for details...


(Thanks to Craig Macneill)

Writer talks Onda Drömmar...

Writer Petter Hörberg dropped us a line on the status of Onda Drömmar (click here for previous coverage), a "teaser-pilot" that is a homage to Lovecraft featuring a reluctant anti-hero who faces madness and ungodly creatures in a picturesque Swedish countryside...

"Like always time is money. Since we do not have a lot of money it takes time instead," Petter tells Unfilmable.com, "We're still in post production on the teaser-pilot. We're almost done with the visual stuff, so it's soon off to our sound guy for scary music and inhuman roars. As soon as the sound is done we're putting it all online."

More as it becomes available, and look for an interview with Petter in the coming weeks...




(Thanks to Petter Hörberg)

Outpost Doom DVD news...

Outpost Doom, a film we told you about here, should be released on DVD sometime in May according to director Mat Kister! The feature film, shot for a reported $500, chronicles the story of two escaped cons, running from a horrific tentacled monster, who seek refuge inside an enormous barn...

Once inside, they discover a decapitated corpse and a group of strangers who are highly suspicious of their presence. It doesn't take long before people start dying in vicious ways. Someone is not who they appear to be…meanwhile, the tentacled monster is trying to find its way inside...

Watch this space for more...




(Thanks to Mat Kister)

Strange Aeons Mag...

A repost from Lady Lovecraft @ blogspot.com and This Yellow Madness:

"Founded by screenwriter and editor of Planet Lovecraft Magazine, K.L. Young; and filmmaker/musician Rick Tillman, with the intent of bringing back the glory days of the horror and sci-fi comics of Eerie, Creepy, Heavy Metal and Epic Magazines!"

STRANGE AEONS #1 has been launched at the end of February, just in time for the Emerald City Comic Con! Featuring a gorgeous cover by Ben Hansen and Levi Skeen and including:

* part one of Tim Sparvero's "The Isle of Cthulhu",
* Vin Ferrante's "In the Court of The Yellow King",
* "The New Sister" by Lee Davis,
* "Memory" by Eric York, and
* "Awakener" by Rob Corless - in COLOR!

Fiction by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., book and audio-drama reviews, and the first highly collectible STRANGE AEONS: THE MOVIE lobby card - a scene from "The Revenge of Herbert West", EXCLUSIVE in this issue!

Strange Aeons can be ordered online via their homepage and can be contacted via facebook as well.

All in all, it's a brilliant mag that gives writers and publishers a chance to promote their work [nudge, nudge] and readers a chance to have their say!

Still not sure whether to thread the realms of Lovecraftian Madness as a mag? How's this amazing shirt for a tease? And, yes it IS for sale on their homepage...


So, I give you: STRANGE AEONS


(Thanks to Lady Lovecraft, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. and Kelly Young)

"In the Court of the Dragon" in pre-production

Gary Fierro and Conor Timmis will be directing and producing a film based on the Robert W. Chambers story, "In the Court of the Dragon". Rocker Kris Keyes has signed on to play "The King in Yellow".

Ron Kramer onboard for Tablets of the Gods

Ron Kramer, the Parisian actor from such roles as Ramos Garcia in Jean-Luc Godard's '04 film, Notre Musique and Dzhaffad in the '07 film, Apocalypse Code has recently been brought on board for the Tablets of the Gods filming, currently in progress. With this comes the announcement of his role, the mysterious character Abdul the Arab, who shares Alfred Ebor's obsession for the discovery of the lost "truth of the gods."

More information on Ron and his past work can be viewed here.

More news to come...

Unfilmable.com needs you...

Interested in being part of the Unfilmable.com team? Sure you'll loose a little more sanity, but it's well worth it when you learn of all the readers who now wear straitjackets due to reading your insane ramblings. We are looking for fans of Lovecraft interested in helping with interviews, film (and other media) reviews, and to keep the news flow going. Thanks for your consideration...

The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets live...

For Immediate Release:

Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 10:00pm
Location: The Railway Club
579 Dunsmuir Street
Vancouver, BC

Thor is celebrating the release of a new album - The Thickets are opening for him and will take the stage at 11pm. I hear it's $10 at the door, there will be 2 other bands and more details will be announced as they develop.

Please make sure you tell the door person you've come to see The Thickets!

The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets are an H.P. Lovecraft inspired hard rock band that sings about math, marine biology, insects, superheroes and of course Cthulhu. We have a song "Shhh...." on Rock Band 2 that you can download. We wear ridiculous costumes on stage. We're fun, and have the t-shirts to prove it.

Click here for details...


(Thanks to The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets)

American Cinematheque to screen The Resurrected...

The American Cinematheque is screening Dan O'Bannon's vastly superior, but rarely seen, director's cut of The Resurrected (originally titled The Ancestor) next Thursday, March 25 at 7:30pm! Based on The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Resurrected is widely considered to be one of the best serious Lovecraft screen adaptations, even though the film was taken out of O'Bannon's hands and re-cut by the producers into the film most of us are familiar with...

Dark Star, co-written and co-starring O'Bannon, will also screen as part of the Dan O'Bannon Tribute (Dan passed away on December 17th, 2009)...

Visit the American Cinematheque site for more info...



(Thanks to Jason V Brock)

City of the Living Dead UK DVD/Blu-ray release...

On February 22nd we told you that Lucio Fulci's City of the Living Dead was getting the Blu-ray treatment from Blue Underground, and now it looks like an even bigger, better release is being planned in the UK, courtesy of Arrow Video...

City of the Living Dead (cert. 18) will be released in a two-disc DVD (£17.99) and single-disc Blu-ray (£22.99) by Arrow Video on 24th May 2010 with the following special features:

- Newly recorded audio commentary by actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice
- Audio commentary by actress Catriona MacColl and author Jay Slater
- Introduction to the film by star Carlo De Mejo; 'Carlo of the Living Dead' featurette
- 'The Many Lives and Deaths of Giovanni Lombardo Radice' featurette
- 'Dame of the Dead' featurette
- 'Fulci's Daughter: Memories of the Italian Gore Maestro' featurette
- 'Penning Some Paura' featurette
- 'Profondo Luigi: A Colleague's Memories of Lucio Fulci' featurette
- Catriona MacCall and Giovanni Lombardo Radice Q&A session at the Glasgow Film Theatre
- 'Fulci in the House – The Italian Master of Splatter' featurette


(Thanks to Dread Central)

Quatermass remake on the way...

Simon Oakes, CEO of Hammer Films, revealed to bloody-disgusting.com recently that a re-imagining of the studios classic Quatermass Xperiment (or maybe more specifically, the Quatermass character) is in the works! Described by Andrew Migliore and John Stysik's Lurker in the Lobby as "an excellent film and a great example of cosmic horror that will surely resonant with Lovecraft fans", the Quatermass Xperiment tells of three journeymen whose race to the stars ends when they encounter a mysterious cataclysm that will forever change mankind. Those who survive will be consumed by an unknown alien force hellbent on devouring the Earth, whose only chance is Professor Quatermass...

"...there are the most amazing characters in here that we want to re-imagine, like Quatermass, like Kronos. Doing a new Quatermass movie, doing a new Kronos movie. You know, not remaking the same film...but saying, 'what would the Kronos movie of 2011 look like, or Quatermass of 2012?' Maybe some of these characters should live in television as well, particularly Quatermass, which I'm thinking about at the moment."

Check out the rest of the article, including more talk of Quatermass, here...


(Thanks to bloody-disgusting.com)

Watch Zann play online...

Jared Skolnick's The Music of Erich Zann is currently being featured on The Really Independent Film Channel and can be seen in its entirety here...

About the film: "The Music of Erich Zann" is a strange and haunting film about the blurring line between sanity and insanity, exemplified by the contrasting lives of two very different yet inherently connected people.

This film experiments to a degree with nonverbal storytelling and expressionistic cinematography in the style of the classic horror films of the silent era. The atmosphere of dread and decay are prevalent throughout the film, giving it an otherworldly yet familiar feel.


(Thanks to Jared Skolnick)

News from The Festival...

Writer/director Richard Terrasi sends word that that his latest feature, H.P. Lovecraft's The Festival , wraps on Sunday with the final scenes scheduled to be shot throughout the week! Richard hopes to premiere the film in May, in New York City, then it's on to the festival circuit and DVD...


(Thanks to Dark Vision Films)

Titans writers talk Cthulhu...

During an interview with io9, Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, the writers of the new Clash of the Titans remake, were asked if Dungeons & Dragons influenced their writing and Chaosium's The Call of Cthulhu was brought up, prompting io9 to ask when would there be a good Cthulhu movie...this was their answer...

Manfredi: We've talked about a Cthulhu movie. It would be amazing. We're trying to do that. The question is how do you approach it.

Hay: It's funny how Cthulhu has seeped into so many different movies. Even the kraken in Clash, if you look at him from the right angle...

Read the rest of the interview here...

(Thanks to FunGuyfromYuggoth)

Le Changement de la Garde...

Based on The Music of Erich Zann, Le Changement de la garde is a short animation created by a group of 19 students, as part of there Diploma of Animation course, in only five weeks. The film was directed by Stephen Hutt...



(Thanks to Grim Reviews)

Updated: Poe news round-up...

According to Dread Central, Eric Woolfson, he of the Alan Parsons Project, will release a CD and DVD of the musical Poe, More Tales of Mystery and Imagination. First performed in 2003 at Abbey Road Studios, it is hoped that the release will garner interest in a US staging of the musical...

Click here for more...


Update: In other Poe news, David DeCoteau's new film, The Pit & The Pendulum, is reviewed by fangoria.com, Dread Central and shocktillyoudrop.com..


Last but certainly not least, Joaquin Phoenix will portray Edgar Allan Poe in an adaptation of Daniel Stashower's The Beautiful Cigar Girl...

About the book: On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Roget."


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

Updated: There will be Monsters...

The first review for Gareth Edwards' Monsters (the film we told you about here) has dropped thanks to FEARNet, and Dread Central reports Magnet Releasing will handle the film's stateside distribution...

The film stars Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able, and revolves around a US journalist who agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through the monster infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US Border...

"...once the monsters do make their appearances, the sci-fi/horror junkies will probably have a grand old time with the Cthulhu-esque monstrosities."

- Scott Weinberg

Update: ShockTillYouDrop.com reviews Monsters here...


(Thanks to FEARNet, Dread Central and shocktillyoudrop.com)

Updated: More talk of Things...

The LA Times talks The Thing remake with Strike Entertainment producing partners Marc Abraham and Eric Newman here. Shooting gets underway this Friday with Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr. behind the camera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton in front of it...

"It's [The Thing] a great film. But once we realized there was a new story to tell, with the same characters and the same world, but from a very different point of view, we took it as a challenge. It's the story about the guys who are just ghosts in Carpenter's movie -- they're already dead. But having Universal give us a chance to tell their story was irresistible."

- Marc Abraham

Update: Shock Till You Drop reports that Norwegian actors Dennis Storhøi (The 13th Warrior), Trond Espen Seim (The Frost), Jørgen Langhelle (Svik), Stig Henrik Hoff, Jan Gunnar Røise, Kristofer Hivju (Manhunt) and Jo Adrian Haavind have joined the cast of The Thing...

Update: Eric Christian Olsen (Not Another Teen Movie) has also been added to the cast, according to bloody-disgusting.com...

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

Latest Colour reviews...

Two more reviews for Ivan Zuccon's Colour from the Dark have appeared online, one courtesy of Big Lug Land, the other Brutal As Hell...

(Thanks to Ivan Zuccon)

Unfilmable.com poll: Lovecraft's bestiary...

It's time for another Unfilmable.com poll!

Which member of Lovecraft's bestiary do you most want to see represented on screen?

Results will be available April 16th. Thanks for voting...

Evil Dead screenings updated...

Fangoria.com has all the latest news on Grindhouse Releasing's Evil Dead theatrical re-release (that we first mention on March 4th) here...

Check out grindhousereleasing.com for more...


(Thanks to fangoria.com)

Updated: Call of Cthulhu screening...

Update: For Immediate Release:

Thursday, March 25, 2010 from 7:00 PM until 9:00 PM

Rochambeau Library, 708 Hope Street, Providence RI
http://www.provcomlib.org

CONFIRMED, PUBLIC

Come out and join us Thursday, March 25th at 7pm at the Rochambeau Library in Providence, RI to celebrate the life of legendary local sci-fi and horror writer H.P. Lovecraft!

We'll be showing the 2005 black and white, silent version of "The Call of Cthulhu" directed by Andrew Lehman of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. Certainly one of, if not THE, best and most faithful film adaptations of a Lovecraft story yet!

Your host for the evening will be local mentalist and mindbender Rory Raven AND there'll be FREE pizza on hand courtesy of THE NICE SLICE. Did I mention FREE admission?

http://www.cthulhulives.org
http://www.roryraven.com
http://www.niceslice.com
http://www.provcomlib.org

(Thanks to brown.dailyjolt.com)

Joseph Nanni visits Innsmouth...

Joseph Nanni, the filmmaker responsible for fan favorites Casting Call of Cthulhu and Elder Sign, was interviewed recently by Innsmouth Free Press, and he had lots to say about his upcoming Lovecraftian films...

"It [The Children of Alhazred] will be a big, expensive, effects-heavy epic in an apocalyptic world where the Old Ones have come but the summons is incomplete, so we still have a chance. I dream about it all the time, especially in traffic."

- Joseph Nanni

Check out the rest here...

(Thanks to Joseph Nanni)

Shooting Started for Tablets of the Gods

Production crew started work on TOTG's shooting schedule this past Saturday, March 13th. On Saturday, we took camera and cast up into the Scottish mountains, working towards the second half of a "dream sequence", where Laidlaw is searching for a distant Alfred Ebor, but doesn't really find what he expects.

Shooting schedule currently has TOTG production running into late April, though several locations/actors are still in negotiations.

More news to come...

Remembering HPL...

March 15th, remembering Howard Phillips Lovecraft...


H.P. Lovecraft passed into the world of dreams seventy-three years ago today...

Pickman's Models: Lovecraftian Monsters...

I know that tentacles don't make it Lovecraft, but the following pic (courtesy of io9) was just too good to pass up! The image, a street art representation of the aliens from Gareth Edwards' forthcoming film Monsters, hints at what might be lurking in Mexico's infected zone...


About the film: "6 years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system.

A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after new life forms began to appear there and half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE.

Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures"...

The story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border."

Check out the trailer on io9...

(Thanks to bloody-disgusting.com)

New Ivan Zuccon interview...

Head over to Italian horror site Indie Horror for a new interview with Colour from the Dark director Ivan Zuccon (in Italian)...


(Thanks to Ivan Zuccon)

H.P. Lovecraft's The Silver Key (2010) Full Movie from Conor Timmis on Vimeo.

New Colour reviews...

Ivan Zuccon has been quietly making some of the best Lovecraft inspired films of the past decade, and he is arguably the most talented director to come out of the Italian horror community in years, so it's no surprise that his latest feature, Colour from the Dark, is garnering a great deal of press since its recent US DVD debut...

Released February 23rd through Vanguard Cinema, the film has been reviewed by a wide range of sites including Movie Outlaw, B Movie Man, Goshzilla, Horror Society and horror heavyweight bloody-disgusting.com...

Hit the links for more...


(Thanks to Ivan Zuccon and Debbie Rochon)

Alien prequel in 3D...

ShadowLocked.com spoke with art director Roger Christian recently and he had this to say about Ridley Scott's Alien prequel...

"Ridley's doing the next Alien in 3D. He has a very clear understanding of where this should go. They kind of stopped dead one of the greatest horror franchises there's ever been, and it had legs to go on. So I'm hoping he'll revive another three. The world certainly wants it, and the fans want it - everybody."

I look forward to hearing more as the film gets closer to production, as Ridley Scott's Alien is one of the greatest examples of Lovecraftian horror ever filmed...



(Thanks to Dread Central)

Early HPLFF-LA news...

The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, to be held at the Portland, Oregon Hollywood Theatre this October 1-2-3, has announced a satellite festival in Los Angeles on September 11th, 2010. The first annual HPLFF-LA is currently being organized by filmmaker Aaron Vanek (Return to Innsmouth, The Yellow Sign), so watch this space for more...

(Thanks to hplfilmfestival.com)

Wall of Sleep follow-up announced...

Writer/director Nathan Fisher has announced, via the official Unfilmable.com forum, that Gonzo Entertainment is in pre-production on their follow-up to last years Beyond the Wall of Sleep, and while it isn't purely a "Lovecraft" film, it does have several Lovecraftian elements and references...

Filming is set to begin in five weeks...

(Thanks to Gonzo Entertainment)

The Whisperer In Darkness and other 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
- From Beyond
- The Shunned House
- At the Mountains of Madness (part 1)
- At the Mountains of Madness (part 2)
- At the Mountains of Madness (part 3)
- At the Mountains of Madness (parts 4 and 5)
- At the Mountains of Madness (parts 6 and 7)
- At the Mountains of Madness (parts 8 and 9)
- At the Mountains of Madness (part 10, 11 and 12)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (chapter 1)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (chapter 2, parts 1 and 2)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (chapter 2, parts 3 and 4)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (chapter 2, parts 5 and 6)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (chapter 3, parts 1, 2 and 3)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (chapter 3, parts 4, 5 and 6)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (chapter 4, parts 1 and 2)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (chapter 4, parts 3 and 4)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (chapter 5, parts 1, 2 and 3)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (chapter 5, parts 4, 5, 6 and 7) NEW
- The Whisperer In Darkness (part 1) NEW
- The Whisperer In Darkness (part 2) NEW
- The Whisperer In Darkness (part 3) NEW
- The Whisperer In Darkness (part 4) NEW
- The Very Old Folk NEW
- The Temple NEW

MorganScorpion also passed along the following link to an adaptation of The Colour Out of Space by an un-named source...


(Thanks to MorganScorpion)