Updated: New Chambers film in the works...

Actor/producer Conor Timmis (Pickman's Model, Re-Animator: 1942) is set to appear (as the creature!) in a new film based on the The Harbor-Master by Robert W. Chambers. Sam Borowski (Karloff and Me) will write, direct and produce the film with Rob Pralgo (Army Wives, One Tree Hill) in the lead...

Below you will find a pre-production sketch from the forthcoming film...

Update: According to Conor Timmis, this film is no longer being developed...


(Thanks to Conor Timmis)

Good news for Alien fans...

Good news for fans of Alien who were worried about the recently announced remake/prequel as bloody-disgusting.com is reporting that FOX is only interested in moving forward on the project if Ridley Scott is in the director's chair. Carl Rinsch was in talks to direct the film as late as last week, but that no longer seems to be the case...

Watch this space for more...


(Thanks to www.bloody-disgusting.com)

Strange Adventures issue #2 out now...

Issue #2 of The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft is scheduled for release this week from Image Comics. Strange Adventures was written by Mac Carter, with artwork by Tony Salmons and cover art by Adam Byrne. It retails for $4.99...

About the comic: Something sinister has been unleashed into the life of young pulp writer H.P. Lovecraft. His wretched dream of monsters and murder has come true! It can't be coincidence... It can't be merely that he's begun a fast descent into madness... Two men are dead! Can Lovecraft stop the deadly beasts that seem to slip from his subconscious into the real world before the police discover that the trail of blood leads directly to his doorstep...

You can preview the comic by clicking here...


(Thanks to www.comicmonsters.com and www.imagecomics.com)

Rare Gates of Hell screening...

Lucio Fulci's The Gates of Hell, set in and around Dunwich, will screen at the Angela Triplex in Coaldale, Pa. Saturday, June 20th at 9:30 pm...

Details can be found here...


(Thanks to Mazz Press)

More whispers in darkness...

Sean Branney & Andrew Leman, the amazingly talented Lovecraftians over at the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, have written a detailed "answer" to all the questions they've received on the status of their forthcoming production, the highly anticipated The Whisperer in Darkness...

As stated in the "Making of" blog, the script has been written (and re-written!), designs for Wilmarth's costumes, Akeley's house, and Mi-Go anatomy are being hammered out, and crew, period vehicles, rain machines, and props are being lined up. Currently, the guys are on track to start shooting at the end of summer, with special effects and editing beginning in September, and if all goes well, the film could be finished this winter...

There's a lot a great news/information in the blog, including how you can get involved, so hit this link and read all about it...

(Thanks to www.cthulhulives.org)

Animated Lovecraft...

Back in November of 2007 the following information appeared on the old Unfilmable.com site:

According to RENCI (The Renaissance Computing Institute), Oscar-winning filmmaker Chris Landreth (Ryan) is currently working on an animated feature film entitled Lovecraft. The project will be based on the life of H.P. Lovecraft...

Nothing else about the film is mentioned, and I've found no other news on the project...

Then nothing more, until today when the excellent Grim Reviews blog reported that the project is still alive with Oscar-winning animator Chris Landreth (The Spine) at the helm! According to news gathered from a variety of sources, Landreth is developing the film with Steve Hoban and expects production to begin in 2010...

During France's Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Landreth had this to say about the project, "It's a film called 'Lovecraft,' based on the writer H.P. Lovecraft. We're doing a fictionalized animated biography picture of him." He went on to say, "We have a script and we are working towards seeing if we can make this work."

This is definitely one to watch...

(Thanks to Grim Reviews and canadaeast.com)

The Colour is spreading...

A very positive review for Ivan Zuccon's Colour from the Dark has appeared over at horror-fanatics.com...



(Thanks to Ivan Zuccon)

Pickman's Models: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath...

In 2003 I was lucky enough to attend the world premiere of Edward Martin's Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, a film that I am proud to have been a part of, and during a small get-together at the Moon and Sixpence I met Jason Thompson, creator of the original Dream-Quest comic...

After introducing myself, we spent some time talking about the comic, the film adaptation and a few of the scenes that I had worked on (which he politely complimented me on), then I watched with fascination as he provided me with a wonderful piece of Lovecraftian memorabilia which is this weeks Pickman's Models...

(Thanks to Jason Thompson and Edward Martin III)

Quoth Cthulhu: In the Mouth of Madness...

John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness, his 1995 homage to H.P. Lovecraft (and arguably his last good film), is loaded with Lovecraftian elements and references including the following passage from Sutter Cane's novel of the same title, which mirrors HPL's The Outsider...

Trent's eyes refused to close, he did not shriek, but the hideous unholy abominations shrieked for him, as in the same second, he saw them spill and tumble upwards out of an enormous carrion black pit, choked with the gleaming white bones of countless unhallowed centuries.

- In The Mouth Of Madness by Sutter Cane

I did not shriek, but all the fiendish ghouls that ride the nightwind shrieked for me as in that same second there crashed down upon my mind a single and fleeting avalanche of soul-annihilating memory.

- The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft

(Thanks to wikipedia.org and www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com)

Colour from the Dark DVD artwork...

Ivan Zuccon revealed, via facebook, the official cover art for the German DVD release of Colour from the Dark, coming soon from Epix Media...

Release details (and DVD specs) have yet to be announced...


(Thanks to www.ivanzuccon.com)