Re-Animator: The Musical...

Fresh of the success of his Poe stage production, Shocktillyoudrop.com reports that Stuart Gordon has set his sights on Re-Animator: The Musical! A source tells the site that William Atherton (Ghostbusters) and George Wendt portrayed Dr. Carl Hill and Dean Alan Halsey in an early show, with a newcomer playing Herbert West...

Watch this space for more...


(Thanks to shocktillyoudrop.com)

Donations for Chambers film needed!

Hey all,


I'm currently fund raising for my next short film with director Gary Fierro, "In the Court of the Dragon", based on the classic weird tale by Robert W. Chambers(a major influence on Lovecraft) Any donations no matter how small are a big help! Need to raise $5,000. Visit IndieGoGo on this link to donate/learn more: http://www.indiegogo.com/In-the-Court-of-the-Dragon

Best,
Conor Timmis
http://conortimmis.blogspot.com/

Stuart Gordon's Moscow Nightmares...

A post that has appeared on several forums around the web (all by the same person it seems) states that horror legend Stuart Gordon is developing a new film called Moscow Nightmares, that is inspired by HPL's The Hound. The project, it is said, is being developed in association with Italy's Buskin Film (s.r.l.)...

I've been unable to confirm the news, so we'll file this one under "rumor" for now. As soon as Stuart has confirmed/or denied the film, I'll let you know...


Source: Sheldon Warnock

Casting Call for Bait...

For Immediate Release:

V.G.C. Films has announced a casting call for their current project, Bait! The film, a short inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, revolves around a transient who finds great treasure...at great cost. Like their previous film, The Picture in the House, Bait will be directed by Christopher James Jordan and written by Gary M. Lobstein...

Check out the casting call below...

Actress/Model needed for non-speaking role in short film. Requirements: 5'-5'8" / Brunette, minimum shoulder-length but longer is preferred / 18–25 years of age.

No previous acting/modeling experience needed.

Scenes will be shot in early June – flexible schedule is necessary.

Please submit headshot, contact information, and resume (if desired) to: casting@vgcfilms.com

For information about v.g.c. films, visit: www.vgcfilms.com

Thank you for your interest.

(Thanks to V.G.C. Films)

The Book Dealers return...

Andrew W. Jones' animated short The Book Dealers has been invited to screen at the Tri-City Independent/Fan Film Festival. The festival takes place October 16th, in Richland, WA...

You can watch The Book Dealers in its entirety here...


(Thanks to Andrew W. Jones)

Lovecraft Art Show in Brooklyn, NY...

Bob Eggleton, Centipede Press, Mike Dubisch, Stephen Hickman, Dan Harding, Joel Harlow, Aeron Alfrey (of Monster Brains) and Paul Carrick are scheduled to participate in a Lovecraft themed art show in Brooklyn, NY on June 1st at the Observatory! The show will run for six weeks...

Below you will find a video collaboration created by Paul and musician Stephen Painter of Dark Sunny Land containing a selection of Paul's art and the song Dying Factory from Stephen's recent CD, Kon Taan Kor...



(Thanks to Paul Carrick)

Latest Zann screening announced...

Jared Skolnick's The Music of Erich Zann has been accepted by the Nickel Independent Film Festival in St. John's, Newfoundland...

Click here for details...


(Thanks to Jared Skolnick)

Revisiting Poe's House in 3D...

As we revealed on April 17th, Lovecraft's From Beyond could be getting the 3D treatment, but it looks like Edgar Allan Poe could beat HPL, as the authors classic tale The Fall of the House of Usher is currently being developed by Accelerator as a 3D film called The Ushers. The film, which will be shot in Canada, will star Claire Forlani, Rufus Sewell and Dougray Scott and be directed by Stephen T. Kay (Boogeyman). Shooting is scheduled for July...

See our post on May 19th, 2009 for a slightly different take on this project...

About the film: A grown brother and sister have lived in the same Martha's Vineyard house for a long time begin to feel trapped there, so they bring in a real estate broker to help them resolve their crisis...

(Thanks to fangoria.com)

CK Film's bring Lost Land Updates

After several months of principal post-production,CK Film's Lost Land has moved into it's final production faze before heading off to the test audiences this coming month. Earlier in the week, Lost Land was handed over into the capable hands of music composer Mark Brownrigg, who's scores have been waiting for the completion of the films completely foleyd soundtrack.

Lee Blanton, producer of the Lost Land soundtrack, recently completed the piece after nearly 6 months in Alaska, recording audio materials and generating appropriate synthetic atmospheres that correspond and match the films story and scope.Lost Land will also be finalizing its colour treatment faze, as well as receiving its title designs, with in the next two weeks scheduled.

As of now, Lost Land is set for completion on the 31st of May, with its premier and Festival distribution aimed for as early as this September and into Spring of 2011.

More news to come...

Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer...

Filmmaker Andrew W. Jones, whose animated short film The Book Dealers played the 2008 HPLFF, dropped Unfilmable.com a line to tell us about his latest film, Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer, a cyberpunk parody with heavy Lovecraftian elements that is currently touring the festival circuit...

As we mentioned here, DanCoolo screened as part of the "Lovecraftian Tales" segment at A Night of Horror Film Festival. Other screenings include the Cannes Independent Film Festival, the London Independent Film Festival, the LA Comedy Shorts Film Festival, the Gasparilla Film Festival, the World of Comedy Film Festival and the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival, where it won an award for Best Short...

About the film: In the annoyingly sparkly future-scape of Neo-Mega-Ultra Tokyo, reporter Holly Malone tracks a murderous urban legend.

She discovers that a chain of drug related killings leads down a super natural trail. A trail that ends with no average pill pusher, but FRANK DANCOOLO: PARANORMAL DRUG DEALER!

A comedy featuring a goofy blend of computer generated overkill, cartoon physics and stop-motion monsters...

Head over to Andrew's official site where you can watch both The Book Dealers and the amazing DanCoolo...


(Thanks to Andrew W. Jones)

The Necronomicon on House M.D....

The dreaded Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred made an appearance on Monday nights episode of House M.D. (air date: 4/19/2010), according to a post on the Unfilmable.com forum. The episode, titled Knight Fall, revolved around House and his team, who take on the case of Sir William, a "knight" in a closed-off community of men and women living according to the ideals of the High Renaissance...

As the team searches the medieval village for environmental factors contributing to Sir William's rapidly deteriorating health, Thirteen and Sir William debate the acts that define honor and loyalty, especially in regard to the "queen" of the community, one of Sir William's most frequent visitors...

Check out the House Necronomicon below...


(Thanks to spookyparadigm)

Funko conjures up Cthulhu...

Funko, one of the largest manufacturers of bobble heads today, will release its Cthulhu bobble head in September, 2010! You can pre-order Cthulhu through Entertainment Earth (for $12.99), by clicking here...

Cthulhu Bobble Head:

~ H.P. Lovecraft's magnum opus of monsters: Now fun!
~ Bobble head featuring the terrifying creature known as Cthulhu.
~ Based on stories dating back to the early 1900s!

Cthulhu Bobble Head. From the sunken city of R'lyeh to your home, the terrifying beast known as Cthulhu is on of the Great Old Ones...and he wants a place on your shelf! Stands approximately 6-inches tall. Order yours today!


(Thanks to Dread Central)

Fandomania interviews Jared Skolnick...

Fandomania caught up with The Music of Erich Zann director Jared Skolnick recently, and they discussed the film, various aspects of independent filmmaking, audience reaction and more...

Check it out here, and visit the film's IMDb page to watch Zann play...


(Thanks to Jared Skolnick)

Updated: Ridley Scott reveals all...

...or it sure seems that way, as he has given MTV the scoop on his forthcoming Alien prequel. Read on for more...

"As we speak, I've got a pile of pages next to me; it's like the fourth draft. It's a work in progress, but we're not dreaming it up anymore. We know what the story is. We're now actually trying to improve the three acts and make the characters better, build it up to something [we can shoot]. It's a work in progress, but we're actually making the film. There's no question about it, we're going to make the film," he tells the site. "Now it's a matter of, how good can I get the screenplay in the next few weeks so I can get a good ballpark figure of what it will cost. I've already got people working graphically on designs for the various requirements of the film. It's set in 2085, about 30 years before Sigourney [Weaver's character Ellen Ripley]. It's fundamentally about going out to find out 'Who the hell was that Space Jockey?' The guy who was sitting in the chair in the alien vehicle — there was a giant fellow sitting in a seat on what looked to be either a piece of technology or an astronomer's chair. Remember that? And our man [Tom Skerritt as Captain Dallas] climbs up and says "There's been an explosion in his chest from the inside out — what was that?" I'm basically explaining who that Space Jockey — we call him the Space Jockey — I'm explaining who the space jockeys were."

Click here for more, including whether H.R. Giger will be involved and when it will be released...

Update: Rideley Scott has announced (see it here) that there will actually be two prequels leading up to the events in Alien, and they will indeed be in 3D...


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

Visions and nightmares await...

It's 1922 and a young novelist has holed himself up in a country house to work on his latest novel, only to be plagued by horrific visions and nightmares...

Sound like something out of Lovecraft's life? Well, it's actually a new 3D project from France called Behind the Walls currently being developed by Sombrero Films with Julien Lacombe and Pascal Sid directing. The budget is set at $5-million, with 30 percent going towards 3D FX...

More when it's available...

(Thanks to fangoria.com)

First Look: The Unnamable one-sheet...

Director Sascha Renninger passed along the first of three posters created for Shadow of the Unnamable, and you can check it out below! Look for the second poster in the coming weeks...

Check out the new trailer by visiting the official site...


(Thanks to Sascha Renninger)

Black Sky: World War Squid...

Comic book artist Ben Templesmith, best known for Wormwood and 30 Days of Night, is teaming up with Halo-8 on a new "Illustrated Film" called Black Sky! According to Templesmith, an illustrated film melds the cinematic storytelling style of comics with good audio/voice acting & some animation/CGI in places...

Black Sky will also be released as a traditional comic, that will be an adaptation of the original project. No release date has been announced...

Read on for more...

About the project: So what is BLACK SKY? So far, all I can say is sort of Band Of Brothers...but with SQUID. ( Well, Cthulhu-ish ideas and my love of all things tentactular ) Yes, it's a war comic. Want to get all emotional and down and dirty with it. Not exactly comedy in the vein of Wormwood... It's post apocalyptic. I deals with a small group of soldiers, as the human race is reduced to relatively low tech solutions to claw back their planet, the new religion that drives them on to this goal in the face of hopelessness...and all the stuff that comes from such things. Many horrific and hopefully, some touching "tales from the front" in many ways. And of course, they'll end up being players in a major event that may define the now generations long conflict. Lots of action but with an actual point to it I hope, rather than an excuse to simply draw "cool" things.

Humans are such fragile things.

Squid, not so much.


(Thanks to Dread Central and bentemplesmith.blogspot.com)

Ivan Zuccon nominated for Golden Cob...

Ivan Zuccon has been nominated for Best Director for Colour from the Dark by The Golden Cob Awards, an award that Unfilmable.com thinks he is very worthy of...

Click here to vote, and to see the other nominees...

(Thanks to Debbie Rochon)

The Thing finds another victim...

Jonathan Walker (Land of the Dead) has been added to the cast of Matthijs Van Heijningen's The Thing, currently filming in Toronto...

(Thanks to bloody-disgusting.com)

New Splatterhouse trailer debuts...

An extended trailer for the upcoming video game Splatterhouse has been released, revealing more of what we can expect from this update of the late 80's classic...

Check it out here...


(Thanks to Dread Central)

SK in the news

"The Silver Key"(2010) recently got some press on two websites

1. Hollywood East Connection: http://hollywoodeastconnection.com/?tag=conor-timmis

2. Cinerati: http://cinerati.blogspot.com/2010/03/through-gates-of-ennui-sharing-timmis.html

The Silver Key (2010) from SK on Vimeo.

Radiant Dawn film on the horizon...

There's not much on this one yet, but author Cody Goodfellow has announced that the screenplay based on his novel Radiant Dawn (purchase it here) has been completed! The novel, along with Ravenous Dusk, form a two-part epic of modern Lovecraftian horror about a covert war over the future of human evolution...

More as soon as it's available...


(Thanks to Cody Goodfellow)

From Beyond in 3D...

It's been quite a while since we've heard anything new about Shoreline Entertainment's From Beyond, and when last we did, it was announced that it would be either a remake of Stuart Gordon's 1986 classic, or a TV series...

A quick look at Shoreline's official site didn't yield much else, but I did notice that the drop-down link listed the film as 3D Sci-Fi Action, and that my friend is something new! If done properly (if it is done at all), a 3D adaptation of From Beyond could be a real feast for the eyes, but for now, we'll have to wait and see...

Watch this space for updates...


(Thanks to Shoreline Entertainment)

What lurks on The Other Side...

I'm always surprised that the Syfy Channel doesn't mine Lovecraft's works more, but here is an upcoming project from RHI Entertainment that just might be rooted in Cosmic Horror. The Other Side, written by Douglas G. Davis, will screen as part of Syfy's Saturday night original movie block in 2011, and is scheduled to begin production in Ireland this summer...

About the film: The Other Side tells the story of a groundbreaking device designed to glimpse alternate universes. But when the machine malfunctions on its first demonstration and transports a group of observers into a nightmarish new dimension of bizarre alien terrors, the travelers must use ingenuity and courage to survive. But even if they stay alive, without a working transport, the group may never make it home...



(Thanks to Dread Central)

Horror Express DVD coming...

Severin Films has announced that it will release the Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee classic, Horror Express (released in 1973) on special edition DVD! The film closely follows the themes of John W. Campbell's Who Goes There?, previously adapted as The Thing from Another World and John Carpenter's The Thing...

Horror Express will be released both on DVD and Blu-ray with a host of special features, that have yet to be announced...


(Thanks to fangoria.com)

SciFi Universe reviews Colour...

SciFi Universe reviews Ivan Zuccon's Colour from the Dark here (in French)...


(Thanks to scifi-universe.com)

Elder Sign in Jolly Ole Engyland

Elder Sign continues to make its way around the world via a selection of fine festivals purveying the ultimate in cosmic horror. Won't you please click the link for showtimes – HERE!


(Thanks to Joseph Nanni)

Evil Dead tour dates announced...

Dread Central scored the complete "tour" schedule for Grindhouse Releasing's Evil Dead theatrical run, and Rotten Cotton has created a shirt to commemorate the event...

Check out the shirt below, and click here for screening dates...


(Thanks to Dread Central)

Lionsgate goes Under the Mountain...

Lionsgate has acquired Jonathan King's Black Sheep follow-up, the Lovecraftian thriller Under the Mountain. The PG-13 rated film stars Sam Neill, Sophie McBride, Tom Cameron, Leon Wadham and Oliver Driver...

No release date has been given...

About the film: When teenage twins Rachel and Theo investigate the creepy old house next door, they discover the Wilberforces - shape-shifting creatures that lurk beneath Auckland’s ring of extinct volcanoes.

Guided by the mysterious Mr. Jones and with the help of their older cousin, Ricky, the twins must rekindle the unique powers they once shared if they are to destroy this ancient evil - before it destroys them...



(Thanks to Dread Central)

"The Sleeping Deep" at The Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest

The 1-minute teaser for The Sleeping Deep will be playing at the PollyGrind Film Festival in Las Vegas in May!

The Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest

at The Sci-Fi Center in Las Vegas

May 12-16, 2010

http://grindhousefest.pollystaffle.com/

7 p.m. Trailer – Jeffrey Blake Palmer's The Sleeping Death (1 minute) Las Vegas Premiere

http://grindhousefest.pollystaffle.com/thelineup.html

Hey, that's show biz!

(Thanks to Jeff Palmer)

New Cthulhu review...

Dead Derrick reviews Daniel Gildark's Cthulhu, written by Grant Cogswell, here...

"The atmosphere in this movie is so thick that you could cut it with a knife. You have no idea what is going to happen, but you know that it isn't going to be anything near good."

- Dead Derrick


(Thanks to deadderrickreviews.blogspot.com)

Lovecraft's bestiary poll results...

The Unfilmable.com poll, Which member of Lovecraft's bestiary do you most want to see represented on screen?, 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 May 15th...

Results for the "Lovecraft's bestiary" poll are as follows:

2 votes: Azathoth
1 vote: Cthulhu
0 votes: Dagon
1 vote: Deep Ones
1 vote: Elder Things
0 votes: Ghouls
0 votes: Great Race
1 vote: Mi-Go
4 votes: Night-gaunts
7 votes: Nyarlathotep
2 votes: Shoggoths
3 votes: Shub-Niggurath
0 votes: Yog-Sothoth
0 votes: other

Thanks for voting...

Silent Zann film screens this Saturday with live musical accompaniment...

For Immediate Release:

Prepare yourself for the shocking cinematic experience that is "The Music of Erich Zann!"

Based on a short story by renowned horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, "The Music of Erich Zann" is a half-hour silent film written and directed by Kyle McCloskey, complete with an original score written by Walker Anderson VII that will be performed live by student musicians!

Follow the young student (Peter Sturtevant) as he moves into a mysterious house at the end of the ominous Rue D'Auseil. Be stunned by his eerie landlady, Madame Blandot (Laura Martin) and the decrepit denizen of the town (Hannah Garner). And watch as he sets out on a quest to unravel the mystery of the man who lives above him, the reclusive mute violinist Erich Zann (Evan Raskin).

Sponsored by the John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center Student Arts Fund, "The Music of Erich Zann" promises to be a unique film that is sure to give you chills and haunt your dreams!"

Follow the adventure of creating the film via the blog...

Where: Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA 19041
When: Saturday April 17th & Sunday April 18th at 8pm


(Thanks to biconews.com)

Sacrilege a ways off...

Looks like we will have to wait for Neil Marshall's Lovecraftian Western, Sacrilege, according to a recent interview with bloody-disgusting.com...

When asked about the status of the film, Marshall said that, "SACRILEDGE [note the spelling] is still in the cards and I need to write more, but that one's still a way off." In previous interviews, Marshall described the project as being, "Unforgiven by way of H.P. Lovecraft, with that grim, gritty setting and a horror element nobody has seen before..."

Let's hope this one isn't too far off, as Marshall is a talented director, that I'd like to see tackle Lovecraft, even if it is indirectly...

(Thanks to bloody-disgusting.com)

Fresh off the table: Stills from Tablets of the Gods

With principle photography in its final stretch, Tablets of the Gods is progressing well. Here are a few stills gathered from the editing table as the film starts it's initial faze of post-production this week.

AM1200

Hi. Joe Pulver chiming in . . .

I had seen AM1200 at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival & Cthulhu Con and have been a big fan of this film ever since. When Craig asked me to contribute to this site my first thought was to mention this film and again make people aware of it. The following is something I posted on The Net back in ’08. Recently I watched the film again, my 9th time, and it stays w/ me. So I want to bring it up again and hopefully make fans of this wonderful site go in search of it.

The following is what I posted a couple of years ago. My praise for this film has not diminished one iota.

Here's the facts. AM1200 is a 40 minute horror thriller written, produced and directed by award-winning DVD producer, David Prior (Zodiac, Fight Club, Master & Commander).

I had the very great pleasure of meeting director/producer David Prior at the H P Lovecraft Film Festival & Cthulhu Con last weekend. Yeah, he's got mountains of talent, but for yer old bEastie's money and better than that, this is one hell of an interesting, NICE guy! & did I mention he's got vats of talent? And as luck would have it, I got to see his stunning film AM1200. Subtlety, Atmosphere! !!, excellent acting, sound design that's about as perfect in a film as I have come across [and many of you know how addicted to the aural I am.] this film has it all in spades. From the opening tracking shot I was hooked and for 40 minutes I sat riveted to the movie screen before me.

Festival director, Andrew Migliore, said if you only see one film at the festival this is it, and boy was he was right! !! Those of you who know me well know I'm not big on horror films. I have grown weary of buckets of blood and cheap over the top frights. Engage my mind and you'll win my heart! That said, this one hooked me deep. And if it can lure me in, I'm betting this finely crafted thriller will grab you as well.

You also know how much I hate spoilers, so here's a brief description of this engrossing film. Investment analyst Sam Larson [played by Eric Lange – what a performance! 2 bEastly paws way up!!] has a lot on his mind. After a financial scam goes horribly wrong, he hits the road in a desperate bid to outrun his guilt. A fragment of a radio broadcast, that may be a distress call, lures him to an isolated transmitting station and into a terrifying mystery of murder, madness and the insatiable hunger of a power beyond his comprehension. I'm not going to go into any more details than stated there –get yer paws on this and see for yourself. For all the info you need, zip over to http://am1200.com/ and watch the trailer. As Eric Burdon once said, "It will be worth it."

David Prior offered to give me a copy of his film, but I felt so strongly about what I had just seen—experienced, I dashed [I'm not kidding about hot-footing it to grab one of these] to the dealers room and bought one. This film needs to be supported by every one who loves dark films. And don't take my word for it, director David Fincher [can ya say SE7EN, or ZODIAC, or FIGHT CLUB?] said, "David Prior, in 40 short minutes, shows why he is the single most promising director I've seen in years." And Del Toro loves Prior's work, so what else to you need to know? Get yer paws on this horror thriller! !!

That’s it. I think it will be hard to find a copy of this DVD, but I urge everyone to root around Ebay, ask in forums, or beg a friend who may have been one the lucky ones to get a copy, and find a way to see this superb film.

All my bEastly best! !!

Joe

http://thisyellowmadness.blogspot.com/

/Film reveals Norwegian Research Camp...

Unfilmable.com scooper Coy A. Lothrop pointed us in the direction of the following set image from Matthijs Van Heijningen's Thing prequel, which is currently shooting in Toronto. Head over to /Film for comparison images from the Carpenter classic...


(Thanks to /Film and Coy A. Lothrop)

She Never Slept special 100th post with the HPLHS...

Sarah L. Covert's wonderful blog, She Never Slept, is celebrating its 100th post by giving us a live interview with Sean Branney and Andrew Leman of The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society! The HPLHS are currently working on their cinematic adaptation of The Whisperer in Darkness, so they should have plenty of amazing stories to share with Sarah. Stop by on Tuesday, April 13th at 8PM Pacific for the live BlogTalk Radio interview, and stick around for the last half of the show for call in questions...

Click here for more...


(Thanks to Sarah L. Covert)

Updated: Two (make that three) new Colour reviews...

Two more reviews for Ivan Zuccon's Colour from the Dark have surfaced, one over at Hayes Hudson's House of Horror, the other on sueursfroides.fr (in French)...

Update: Make that three as fangoria.com just reviewed the film here...


(Thanks to Ivan Zuccon and fangoria.com)

Erich Zann on Grim Reviews...

Grim Reviews, one of our favorite blogs, reviews Jared M. Skolnick's The Music of Erich Zann here (you can also watch the film in two parts). Zann screened yesterday at The SENE Film, Music and Arts Festival in Lovecraft's hometown of Providence, Rhode Island...


(Thanks to Jared M. Skolnick)

Lovecraftian Tales announced...

For Immediate Release:

Sydney, Australia's A Night of Horror International Film Festival gets underway this week, and the official site has announced the line-up, including the popular "Lovecarftian Tales" Shorts Program...

The Sunday afternoon block consists of:

Statement of Randolph Carter (Dir: Michael Sparks / 14 mins / USA)
Noirville (Dir: Andrew Marsh / 12 mins / UK)
Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer (Dir: Andrew Jones / 8 mins / USA)
Mr. Noyes (Dir: Gary Fierro / 2 mins / USA)
Effulgence (Dir: Jeremy Peterson /24 mins / USA)
The Prey (Dir: Stephen Johnson / 6 mins / USA)
At the Reefers of Madness (Dir: Brian Clement / 14 mins / CAN)
The Picture in the House (Dir: Gary Lobstein / 11 mins / USA)
Elder Sign (Dir: Joseph Nanni / 2 mins / CAN)
Dirt Dauber (Dir: Steve Daniels / 33 mins / USA)

Click here for details...

(Thanks to Dean Bertram)

The Thing prequel underway...

Matthijs Van Heijningen's prequel to The Thing is a week into its Toronto shoot, and ShockTillYouDrop.com caught up with lead actor Joel Edgerton, who discussed how much the film ties into the Carpenter classic. Check out some of what he had to say below, and head over to Shock for more...

"Well, it's a prequel and definitely the Norwegian base is modeled on the base you see in the Carpenter film," he told the site, "Being a prequel you'll see a lot of tie-ins as to how the base comes to be the way it is in the Carpenter film, being so destroyed, and that evidence you see in the Carpenter film, We'll get a glimpse into that. It's great because you have a bunch of people behind making it—Eric Newman and Marc (Abraham), the producers at Strike (Entertainment), those guys and Matthijs the director, they have such respect for the original film that they're not trying to do a remake, they're just trying to pay homage to the original and also do the right thing with what I think is a real cool way in to doing that, and revisiting the material."

(Thanks to shocktillyoudrop.com)

The Cthulhu Key: Legacy...

For Immediate Release:

The Cthulhu Key: Legacy

The debut horror film from Jason Heath and Primal Fx Studios, is in pre-production with a scheduled Fall 2010 release.

Horror film favorite Bianca Barnett stars as Kharma Jones, a woman on the brink of losing her soul, must make a terrifying choice when Alix Lakehurst, the High Priestess of an inhuman cult, threatens to unlock a doorway that will unleash an ancient evil.

The Cthulhu Key: Legacy brings Barnett and Lakehurst together in a dark and chilling film inspired by the works of H.P Lovecraft.

The film is also unique in that social media giant Facebook was used to assemble the fantastic cast and crew so quickly.

Musician and composer JK Swopes from soundsandgear.com brings a dark urban style to the soundtrack score, while Oakree from Propnomicon delivers amazing Cthulhu Mythos art and props.

Promotional and concept art for the film are now available at the film's website http://www.thecthulhukey.com


(Thanks to Jason Heath)

The Amulet - that damned thing...

Inspired by The Hound, The Amulet (aka The Book of the Dead) tells the story of a wealthy software company owner, Brad Newsome, who hires female psychic Gwen Edison to help him deal with unexpected manifestations in the aftermath of the accidental deaths of his wife Susan and daughter Karen...

It seems that his dead wife blames him for their child's death and inside her now haunted house, she has considerable power...

Currently in development from producer Alain Silver, Unfilmable.com is told that there are no plans to start pre-production any time soon...

Watch this space for updates...


(Thanks to Jabberwocky Productions/Pendragon Film Ltd.)

Updated: Outpost Doom DVD art revealed...

Dead Lantern Pictures have revealed the DVD art for their forthcoming Outpost Doom release, courtesy of T.J. Roe of Avant Trash! The DVD will be available soon, so watch this space for details...

Update: The full cover (front and back) has been released by director Mat Kister. Check it out below...



(Thanks to Mat Kister)

In the Shadow of the Unnamable...

Post-production is finished on Sascha Renninger's adaptation of The Unnamable, according to the director, and work is currently underway on the sound mix as they prepare the film for the festival circuit...

Check out the official site for updates, including the new teaser trailer...


(Thanks to Sascha Alexander Renninger)

Tablets of the Gods poster design released

Whisperer trailer unveiled...

Sean Branney and Andrew Leman, the amazingly talented people behind the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, have unveiled the new trailer for The Whisperer in Darkness! Watch it below, or head over to the official HPLHS site and watch it Cyclopean sized...



(Thanks to Sean Branney)