Poe's The Raven...

James McTeigue (V For Vendetta) spoke with SciFi Wire recently about his next project The Raven, which he described as "sort of Se7en meets a series of Poe stories"...

"It's set in 1850's Baltimore, and it's about creating Poe's version of 1850's Baltimore, him moving through it. So it has a lot of the Poe stories interwoven into it," he went on to say...

The Raven, Tell-Tale Heart, Premature Burial, Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Cask of Amontillado are all incorporated into the film according to McTeigue, who hopes to start filming in March of 2010...

Check out Shocktillyoudrop.com for the full article, and as always, watch this space for more...

(Thanks to shocktillyoudrop.com)

Dirt Dauber reviewed by Grim reviews...

Dirt Dauber, the lasted short film from Steve Daniels (The Gibbering Horror of Howard Ghormley), gets the review treatment from the always informative Grim Reviews blog...

Winner of best short at the 2009 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, Dirt Dauber tells the tale of a man who awakens naked and confused in an isolated mountainous region...

He soon encounters a strange local who offers to help him. Afterwords, the stranger recounts local folklore that speaks of a murderous religious cult, and an insect-like fertility god that is said to dwell deep within the mountain...

Soon the two men go underground in search of the truth and soon find themselves in a stygian black temple of horror...

Dirt Dauber is without a doubt one of the best short films Unfilmable.com has seen this year, so if you get a chance, check it out, but for now, slither over to Grim Reviews for their take on the film...


(Thanks to Grim Reviews)

Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom review...

From The Tomb Magazine Comic Book Reviews has just posted a review of Bruce Brown and Renzo Podesta's graphic novel Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom. Written by Brown and illustrated by Podesta, the comic revolves around young Howard Lovecraft who ignores his father's (who resides in Arkham Sanitarium) warning and uses the legendary Necronomicon to open a portal to a strange, frozen world filled with horrifying creatures and grave danger. Alone and scared, Howard befriends a hideous creature he names Spot who takes him to the castle of the king where he is captured and sentenced to death...

The 96 page graphic novel was released by Arcana Studio, and retails for $14.95...


"Check it out, you might just find there is a little Lovecraft hiding inside of you."

- Decapitated Dan


(Thanks to fromthetomb.wordpress.com)

H.R. Giger enters The Gate...

Dread Central reports that Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger (Alien, Species) has signed on to design the creatures for Alex Winter's remake of The Gate (in 3D)! Alex will direct from a script written by himself and Kerric Macdonald...

The press kit for the film states that the film will be a PG-13 children's fantasy (just like the original), and that additional creatures were designed by Academy Award winning FX artist Randall William Cook...

About the film: When best friends Miles and Terry discover a mysterious crystalline rock in Miles's back yard, they quickly dig up the lawn in search of more. Instead, they unearth the Gate—the opening to an underground chamber containing terrifying evil.

The teenagers soon realize the horror they have unleashed, as one dire event follows another. With supernatural fiends invading suburbia, it's up to the kids to find the secret that will lock the Gate forever...if it's not too late.

Check out an early example of concept art below, and click here for more...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

Colour from the Dark news and reviews...

Ivan Zuccon's Colour from the Dark is now available in France as a limited edition (1000 copies) Region 2 PAL DVD from Uncut Movies. Details can be found here (in French)...

In other Colour news, the December issue of Fangoria will feature the article Scares of a different "Colour" that talks about Italy's Ivan Zuccon and how he has made a H.P. Lovecraft scenario his own with Colour from the Dark...

Last, but not least, head over to Buried.com for a new Colour review and an interview with director Ivan Zuccon...


(Thanks to Ivan Zuccon, Michael Segal and Steve Hergina)

2 new stills from "The Silver Key" (2009)

Kris Keyes and Ian MacDonald as FBI agents and a pic of myself as 'Randolph Carter'.

Podcrafting The Other Gods

Is it self-serving to post a story connected to a film I was involved with? Perhaps, but I think it's worth the risk, since the H.P.Lovecraft Literary Podcast is definitely a show worth listening to.

The podcast itself is like reading Lovecraft with sarcastic (yet intelligent) footnotes. This week's episode (number 22) covers "The Other Gods." Hosts Chris Lackey and Chad Fifer dig deep into Dreamlands lore to review the story... and the short film I released through Subterranea Entertainment.

They've got a great understanding of Lovecraft's work, and I was thrilled to hear their thoughts regarding the animated film.

So crawl over to hppodcraft.com to listen online. Or get obsessive like me and download every episode to listen to on your iPod!

Editing the Whisperer

It seems like I first saw the teaser trailer for "The Whisperer in the Darkness" forever ago. When could I see this follow up to the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's excellent "The Call of Cthulhu"? Why keep me in suspense?

Well, I eventually learned that the teaser was just that -- a teaser. Footage shot just to whet our appetites before beginning production on the actual movie.

When last Unfilmable checked in, they were in the midst of shooting, but now it's getting exciting... the movie has been shot (mostly) and editor/director of photograpy David Robertson is culling through some 50 hours of HD footage, looking for just the right shots.

Speaking of which, a few images have been posted over at the Whisperer production blog. These aren't snapshots, they came right out of the edit timeline, so you can see the quality we can look forward to in the final product.

Voice over actors have also been busy, recording Wilmarth, Akeley, Noyes, B-67 and a Mi-Go for "sections of dialogue which have no accompanying picture."

Click each pic below to enlarge. Be sure to visit the Whisperer Production Blog for more details and pics here.

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.