Heading West...

I will be offline for about a week as I head out West (Oklahoma) for a long needed vacation...

I would like to take this time to thank all of you for your support and for making the new Unfilmable.com such a cyclopean success! Also, If you could be my eyes while I'm away, and email me links for any articles of interest you may find, I would greatly appreciate it...

Updates will resume as soon as I get back...

Thanks and take care,

Craig Mullins

AM 1200 wins again...

Australia's A Night of Horror International Film Festival has announced it's 2009 award winners and David Prior's AM 1200 was awarded "Best Lovecraft Film". The film also won awards for "Best of Festival" and "Best Cosmic Horror Film" at last years H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival...

About the film: Cocky investment analyst Sam Larson 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 or may not 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...


(Thanks to www.anightofhorror.com)

Pickman's Models: Who is Erich Zann...

Welcome to Pickman's Models…

The Music of Erich Zann, my favorite of Lovecraft's tales, has inspired numerous filmmakers in wildly different ways, but lucky for us, the results have often been amazing...

So this week, I've decided to showcase some of the actors who've portrayed Erich Zann over the years from Robert Alexander in John Strysik's 1980 adaptation through Dale Bradley in Gabriel Bradley's 2009 film…

Robert Alexander as Erich Zann in The Music of Erich Zann (1980) by John Strysik


Cristiana Vaccaro as Carlotta Zann in La Casa sfuggita (The Shunned House, 2003) by Ivan Zuccon


Benny S. Cannon as Erich Zahn in Asleep in the Deep (2005) by Paul von Stoetzel


Die Musik des Erich Zann (2005) by Anna Gawrilow (Erich Zann created by Anna Gawrilow)


Edward Keith Baker as Erich Zann in The Music of Erich Zann (2005) by Christopher Marston


Dale Bradley as Erich Zann in The Music of Erich Zann (2009) by Gabriel Bradley

(Thanks to all the actors who have portrayed Erich Zann)

Fishmen on DVD...

Mya Communication will release Sergio Martino's 1979 film Island of the Fishmen (released in the U.S a year later under the title Screamers) on DVD May 19th...

The film, said to be inspired by The Shadow Over Innsmouth, stars Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson and Joseph Cotton and revolves around shipwrecked prisoners that find themselves trapped on an island with a strange couple who are turning men into fishmen...

The DVD comes with trailers and an image gallery, and retails for $24.95...


(Thanks to www.fangoria.com)

Quoth Cthulhu: The Resurrected...

Time for your weekly dose of Quoth Cthulhu...

This one comes from one of the more memorable performances in a Lovecraft film, Chris Sarandon's portrayal of Joseph Curwen in Dan O'Bannon's The Resurrected (1992)...

I should strip thy flesh from thy bones like a suckling pig, but because I am a madman, they would do nothing to me. Such are the customs of this enlightened century.

- Joseph Curwen (played by Chris Sarandon)

(Thanks to Chris Sarandon)

Shunned images...

Director Eric Morgret passed along a couple images from Maelstrom Productions latest short film, The Shunned House. Deep in post-production, the film was written by K.L. Young and stars J.D. Lloyd, Jerry Lloyd (both from Maelstrom's Strange Aeons) and Rick Tillman (director of Pickman's Model and The Summoning)...

Watch this space for more...



(Thanks to Eric Morgret)

Zompire: The Undead Film Festival 2009...

It's not Lovecraft, but it's run by the same people and they put on one hell of a festival...

For Immediate Release:

It's that time of year again! Come one, come all and watch hours of undead goodness. Zompire: The Undead Film Festival - featuring Training Films for Undead Preparedness since 2004!

DATE/TIME:
May 15-16-17, 2009
Doors open at 6:00pm, Show times from 7:00pm-1:00am

LOCATION:
The Hollywood Theatre
4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd.
Portland OR 97213

TICKET PRICES:
Evening passes: $10 per day, $25 for weekend pass


(Thanks to Sarah L. Gerhardt)

The Images that Came from Sarnath...

For Immediate Release:

Production has begun on Red Hatchet Films latest Lovecraft film, Bokrug, a stop-motion adaptation of The Doom that Came to Sarnath (see our first mention of the project here)! The film tells the story of the decadent city of Sarnath, whose greatness is built on the destruction of an older, primitive race of beings who live in the stone city of Ib, where they worshiped an ancient, reptilian god called "Bokrug". On the night of the 1000th anniversary of Ib's destruction, strange forces signal that the beings of Ib are about to be avenged...

Director/animator Michael Granberry (From Beyond) passed along the following test shots of some of the puppets and sets from the film, which he hopes to have completed by the spring of 2010. Music on the film will be handled by Lovecraftian composer and Dead House Music founder Mars...

Head over to the official Red Hatchet Films blog for additional images and information...

(Thanks to Michael Granberry)

New Tell-Tale clip...

Dread Central has all the latest on Michael Cuesta's Tell-Tale, based on Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, which will screen at this years Tribeca Film Festival...

Check out the image below, or visit Dread Central for the latest clip...

(Thanks to Dread Central)

Latest Locke & Key comics reviewed...

Fangoria.com reviews the latest issues of Locke & Key: Head Games (#3 & 4) here...


(Thanks to www.fangoria.com)