Dead Dreamer reviews Colour...

Blog of a Dead Dreamer reviews Colour from the Dark, Ivan Zuccon's latest Italian masterpiece, here. There's not much I can say about the film that hasn't already been said, so check out the review, or better yet, pick up a copy here...



(Thanks to Debbie Rochon)

New Splatterhouse Blood Thrash trailer...

Check out the new Splatterhouse trailer below...



(Thanks to fangoria.com)

The Thing in the cemetery...

Cinespia will screen John Carpenter's The Thing, a film that's getting a lot of press these days because of the currently filming sequel, as part of their "cemetery screenings" at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The screening takes place May 22nd...

Visit cinespia.org for details...


(Thanks to shocktillyoudrop.com)

More Lovecraftian 3D with Back2Hell...

Fantastic Films International has announced the cast for its forthcoming 3D film Back2Hell, which is part of a multi-picture deal with UK distributor House of Fear...

Principal photography is currently underway on the film, described as a gothic tale of legendary occultist Aleister Crowley with a touch of H.P. Lovecraft (which started with Evil Calls, part of the Raven Series), and the genre loaded cast includes; Michael Madsen, Bai Ling, Patrick Bergin, Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker and Christopher Lee (as the Narrator)...

Click here for an extensive synopsis of the film, and as always, watch this space for more...

(Thanks to earthtimes.org)

Poe trailer debuts...

Head over to Dread Central for the official trailer for Francis Xavier's Poe...

About the film: Poe follows formerly acquitted and rehabilitated criminal Dr. Andrew Casey (David Fine), who relocates to Los Angeles under the alias Jack Conway, aka 'The Chef'. Conway and his butler, Mr. Peeples (Mike Iorio), establish a respected soup kitchen/charity, 'The Help Feeding Foundation', which lures the likes of actresses and models under false pretense.

The women are in fact obtained to satisfy Casey/Conway's culinary tastes. He handpicks respected writer Jonathan Poe (Stelio Savante), descendant of famed writer Edgar Allan Poe, to immortalize him in the form of an autobiography. Poe is intrigued by Conway and his lucrative offer and agrees to the assignment. Once at the house, Poe is forced to witness all manner of horrors without the ability to either escape or help the women who have been captured.

Resigned to his fate, Poe takes up the task at hand and begins recording the autobiography of Casey and his cannibalistic spree.

Check out the Poe site for more...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

Big screen Fulci...

Fangoria editor-in-chief Chris Alexander will screen an uncut 35mm print of Lucio Fulci's City of the Living Dead as part of his ongoing Film School Confidential (sponsored by Eyesore Cinema) at Toronto's Bloor Cinema...

The screening takes place May 27th (at 9:30 pm), with Alexander providing a pre-screening lecture on Fulci and the film's place in horror history...

Click here for details...


(Thanks to fangoria.com)

Miskatonic Institute welcomes you...

There's a new column over on fangoria.com written by the newly formed The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies in which kids aged 14 to 16 wrote reviews (written by participants in Miskatonic Course #102: Introduction to Horror Film Criticism for Teens) for several films including Let The Right One In, [Rec] and Stuck...

Future offerings from the Miskatonic Institute (in its physical form) will consist of horror-theory and production-based workshops for students aged 14 to 29, which are currently offered on demand...

Click here for more...

(Thanks to fangoria.com)

Watch Beyond the Wall of Sleep online...

Nathan Fisher's adaptation of Beyond the Wall of Sleep can now be seen, in its entirety, over on Vimeo! An official selection of the 2009 HPLFF, Sleep features Greg Cannon, Jason Finley, Gia Bathory, Stacey Dixon and Troma's own Lloyd Kaufman...

In other Gonzo Entertainment (Nathan's production company) news, principal photography is complete on their latest Lovecraftian venture, The Island, and the film has moved into post...

More as it becomes available...


(Thanks to Nathan Fisher)

Photographer needed for Bait...

For Immediate Release:

V.G.C. Films has announced an "on-set production photographer" 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 "on-set production photographer" call below...

V.G.C. is looking for an on-set production photographer to document a series of upcoming film shoots at the end of May and beginning of June. Interested? Head over to www.vgcfilms.com for more details.

(Thanks to V.G.C. Films)

Heisserer talks The Thing...

The Thing screenwriter Eric Heisserer spoke with io9 recently about how the film sets up the back story for John Carpenter's classic...

"You're actually in the Norwegian camp before all that stuff happens," Heisserer tells the site. "You get to see how it happens — that's the reverse engineering there. The way we approached it was by autopsy, where the director, producers, and I pored over Carpenter's film. We must have screened it two or three dozen times. And we'd freeze frames and have lengthy discussions about what evidence is there that would lead to so much blood. It was a forensic discussion of Carpenter's film. That's probably where the whole 'fire axe in the door' came from. Because we said, 'We have to justify that; we have to have a moment in our movie where you see that happen.'"

Heisserer continues, "If we do this right — I just spoke on the phone today with [producer] Eric Newman; he's on set up in Toronto, [and] he said things are going well. But if we can pull this off, this movie will work perfectly [as] the first half of a double feature. So that the last shot of this film will be two Norwegians and a chopper chasing after a dog. And you can plug in Carpenter's film, and they will both feel and look as they have been made around the same time."

I'm sure there will be more, as the film is currently shooting in Toronto, Canada with Matthijs Van Heijningen at the helm...


(Thanks to Dread Central)