Tag: hplovecraft
BiFan 2023: 6 New Films to get Excited for at the 27th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan), Asia's finest bacchanal of genre cinema, is about to raise the curtain on its jam-packed 27th edition, which kicks off this Thursday with Ari Aster presenting Beau is Afraid for the first time...
Tribeca 2023 Review: SUITABLE FLESH, Body Swapping Lovecraft With A Super Sexy Twist
H.P. Lovecraft makes his way back to the silver screen in what is perhaps the sexiest of all adaptations of his work, director Joe Lynch's Suitable Flesh. Those of us raised on Stuart Gordon's Lovecraft adaptations of the 80s and...
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MotelX 2020: Lisbon Genre Festival Lineup Includes LA LLORONA, THE RENTAL And HOST
Last month we shared the hopeful news that our friends at MotelX, the kick-ass genre film festival in Lisbon, Portugal, were prepping a live edition of their next festival. With some changes to their format and an extra couple days...
Interview: Richard Stanley Talks COLOR OUT OF SPACE, Nicolas Cage, and Clear and Present Dangers
The filmmaker talks about creating a believable family around Nicolas Cage and the relevance of the Cthulhu Mythos to the modern day.
Mayhem 2019: Final Films Announced, Led by COLOR OUT OF SPACE, DANIEL ISN`T REAL And GIRL ON THE THIRD FLOOR
Our friends at the Mayhem Film Festival in Nottingham, England, have revealed the complete lineup for this year's festival in October. So far this year they have announced that The Gangster, The Cop The Devil & The Pool, She...
COLOR OUT OF SPACE: Nicolas Cage Joins Richard Stanley's Lovecraft Adaptation, Filming Begins Next Month
It seems forever and a day since we saw Richard Stanley pitch the idea of adapting Lovecraft's Color Out of Space at the Frontieres Market at Fantasia. A couple years later we would report that the fine folks at SpectreVision...
Now on Blu-ray: Lovecraft Lives In DAGON & BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR From Vestron Video
Lionsgate's specialty imprint Vestron Video Collector's Series soldiers on with the North American Blu-ray debuts of a pair of H. P. Lovecraft adaptations from Brian Yuzna's Fantastic Factory. First up is the 2001 Stuart Gordon directed Dagon, a tale of...
Overlook 2017 Interview: Julien Jauniaux Talks Lovecraftian Nightmare AN ELDRITCH PLACE
The Overlook Fest is in full swing, and besides feature films, immersive experiences and panels the Timberline Lodge also welcomes a select 16 shorts from all corners of the world. Among them we find festival favorites like A Nearly Perfect...
Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies NYC Now in Session
New York horror fans are in for some fantastic times this fall --- The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies is open for enrollment! In 2010, I attended the Montreal Stuart Gordon and Dennis Paoli master class on adapting Lovecraft to...
Pretty Packaging: Arrow's BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR Presents The Terrifying Side Of Marriage
Arrow UK has a rather prominent place in the Pretty Packaging series of articles, as they are currently one of the frontrunners in the art of disc-pimping worldwide. Their releases tend to be low on trinkets but high on (cardboard)...
Exclusive: INNSMOUTH Teaser Teases Fishyness
Cutting a teaser for a short must surely be a frustratingly difficult exercise. For starters, anything over 30 seconds of footage is bound to plainly show a rather high percentage of the finished short already, and that is even without...
NecronomiCon Providence 2015 Review: INNSMOUTH Is Short But Shocking
This year, it's 125 years ago that H. P. Lovecraft was born, and though the writer died in 1937, his influence and popularity have not diminished one bit over the last few decades. Literally suffering from a Fantastic Fear of...
Descend To The Depths With Lovecraft Inspired FEED THE LIGHT
Armed with a tiny budget and a whole lot of talent, Swedish director Henrik Moller has made himself quite a splash with his debut feature, winning Best Film at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival. Sara takes a job as a...
Put Some Cthulhu On Your Shelf
Sure, it's not a movie and therefore falls somewhat outside our purview here, but everybody needs a retro styled, cephalopod headed god action figure to call their own, right? Right? I mean, how could any self respecting geek not want...
Lovecraftian Short FRAGMENT 1890 Needs Your Love
Attention fans of all things H.P. Lovecraft. We have found a project that you may want to lend your support to. German filmmaker Sascha Alexander Renninger is putting together a feature length anthology film based on the works of the...
The Director Of DIE FARBE Returns To Lovecraft With THE DREAMLANDS
Director Huan Vu raised quite a stir amongst fans of HP Lovecraft a little while back with his independent film Die Farbe, a very well received adaptation of Lovecraft's story The Color Out Of Space. Well, Vu is back and...
ARKHAM SANITARIUM: The Director Speaks And Reveals The First Trailer
[Our thanks to Dejan Ognjanovic for conducting the following interview.]We have covered upcoming indie feature Arkham Sanitarium a fair bit already and now that shooting of the film is over, its director Andrew Morgan is subjected to a torturous examination...
New Images From H.P. LOVECRAFT'S ARKHAM SANITARIUM!
Filming began on Andrew G. Morgan's anthology film H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham Sanitarium and the folks at the production company Survivor Films will be keeping tabs on the production and releasing images and video as they see fit. Nothing truly horrifying yet...
H.P. Lovecraft's ARKHAM SANITARIUM Script Review And Concept Art
[Our thanks to Dejan Ognjanovic for the following.]Lovecraft's fiction is notoriously difficult to translate to cinema, for several reasons. The main one has to do with his reliance on mood, atmosphere, subtlety, hints and vague suggestions of unspeakable horrors. This...
