This Saturday, July 10, Tulsa will be home to Oklahoma’s Underground Horror Filmfest. The event will feature music, horror hosts, vendors, and movies movies movies.
One block of films is being programmed by my internet friend, Craig Mullins of Unfilmable.com. The theme? H.P. Lovecraft Cinema, of course.
This means I’m happy to announce another public screening of Subterranea’s The Other Gods. In addition, here’s what else will be playing:
- The Silver Key a film by Gary Fierro and Conor Timmis (CT)
- H.P. Lovecraft’s The Book a film by James Raynor (United Kingdom)
- At the Reefers of Madness a film by Brian Clement (Toronto, ON)
- From Beyond a film by Michael Granberry (CA)
- Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer a film by Andrew Jones
- The Crimson Robe a by Russell Welch
- Elder Sign a film by Joseph Nanni
- plus clips (House of Black Wings, Pickman‘s Muse), trailers (Lovecraft Paragraphs, Colour from the Dark, Dirt Dauber, The Terrible Old Tran) and teasers (The Seventh Shadow)…
For more information, visit the Underground Horror Filmfest on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter
I heard from Craig Mullins today that his website Unfilmable.com has been relaunched as a blog at http://unfilmable.blogspot.com
Craig’s passion is tracking the cinematic adaptations of the works of H.P. Lovecraft and other weird fiction authors. Anyone making a Lovecraft film crosses paths with Unfilmable at some point. Craig feeds the hungry HPL audience by publishing photos and updates about any production, large or small. Personally, he helped me connect with the person who did French subtitles on “The Other Gods.” He also passed along the short film to artist Tom Sullivan, who reviewed it for the site.
Hopefully there will be some archived content from the old site posted in the future, but for now I’m happy to get a daily dose of strange from http://unfilmable.blogspot.com
Since becoming a “captain of the internet,” I’ve become acquainted with other filmmakers and artists around the world, mostly through sites like MySpace and Indieclub.com.
One such person is Thomas Brannan, who is co-editing the two volume fiction anthology of Lovecraft inspired work, Cthulhu Unbound. He asked if I’d be interested in doing some promo art (and a Youtube “book trailer” down the road). I love the idea of mashing up genres, so I said yes.
Here are the first two of four proposed illustrations. One mixes the world of Lovecraft with detective noir, the next with the gunfighter western.
Look for the paperbacks in the spring of 2009 from permutedpress.com or friend up Thom on MySpace.
UPDATE: The files are no longer on Youtube, but I found another source.
Click here to download.
Here’s an excellent BBC radio documentary about H.P. Lovecraft I found on Youtube. For anyone wondering about my fascination with the author, this is a great introduction to his life and work.
Weird Tales: The Strange Life of H.P. Lovecraft
The American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction. Lovecraft’s major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Originally aired on BBC Radio in 2006 with contributions from Neil Gaiman, S.T. Joshi, Kelly Link, Peter Straub, China Mieville and others. Divided in 5 parts.
The AWN’s media website has changed its name to Animation World Network Televeision, or AWNtv for short.
H.P. Lovecraft’s The Other Gods, which previously had a home in the “demented” area of the media site, has a new address at http://www.awntv.com/videos/the-other-gods
There’s plenty of other great independent animation at AWNtv.com, so head on over and check it out!