Guillermo del Toro spent 20 years trying to bring horror author H.P. Lovecraft’s novella At the Mountains of Madness to the big screen. Why did Ridley Scott’s Prometheus finally force him to abandon the project earlier this year? And might Mountains—like the book’s ancient monsters—yet come back from the dead?
(Warning: This article contains Prometheus spoilers.)
Guillermo del Toro was around 11 years old when he first read H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. Originally penned by the legendary horror writer in 1931, the story tells of an Antarctic expedition which unearths the presumed long dead bodies of strange,...
(Warning: This article contains Prometheus spoilers.)
Guillermo del Toro was around 11 years old when he first read H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. Originally penned by the legendary horror writer in 1931, the story tells of an Antarctic expedition which unearths the presumed long dead bodies of strange,...
- 6/10/2012
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
Tired of seeing New York and Los Angeles get destroyed on film? Wish disaster movies could find a different metropolis to reduce to rubble? This weekend’s Swamp Volcano unleashes a lava storm on Miami. And then a month from now you can take a double-dip trip to the black forest of fairy tales in two back-to-back Syfy original premieres: Black Forest and Gretl: Witch Hunter.
Hollywood’s renewed fascination with fractured takes on classic fairy tales sure came out of nowhere, didn’t it? Now it’s everywhere on big and small screens. February 25th will see Syfy getting in on the craze with a pair of unhappily ever afters making their world premieres as part of a Saturday night double feature.
First up at 7/6 Cst is Black Forest from director Patrick Dinhut (Dead & Deader) and screenwriter Frank H. Woodward (Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown).
A group of...
Hollywood’s renewed fascination with fractured takes on classic fairy tales sure came out of nowhere, didn’t it? Now it’s everywhere on big and small screens. February 25th will see Syfy getting in on the craze with a pair of unhappily ever afters making their world premieres as part of a Saturday night double feature.
First up at 7/6 Cst is Black Forest from director Patrick Dinhut (Dead & Deader) and screenwriter Frank H. Woodward (Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown).
A group of...
- 1/26/2012
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
"'Even a Man Who is Pure in Heart': Filmic Horror, Popular Religion and the Spectral Underside of History," an essay that appeared in the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture in 2005, piqued Michael Guillén's interest in its author, Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, "a native Montrealer and 'monster kid' who teaches courses on genre cinema and monsters in the Humanities department of John Abbott College." So they met up a few weeks ago at the Fantasia International Film Festival and Michael's transcription of their conversation — touching on national identities, filmmakers who straddle the high and the low, "the knowledge systems of ordinary people" and more — is one of the week's best reads, which is why I wanted to point it out right at the top of this little roundup of horror-related items.
The splashiest of these will surely be Jason Zinoman's survey of "a diverse collection of filmmakers about the scariest movie they'd...
The splashiest of these will surely be Jason Zinoman's survey of "a diverse collection of filmmakers about the scariest movie they'd...
- 8/21/2011
- MUBI
In this incarnation of our Videolog column (which began in 1982 with VHS and Betamax and later laserdisc), Starlog posts information weekly regarding selected genre titles being released (or re-released) now on DVD and Blu-ray. Prices listed are Msrp, though any clickable links lead to Amazon where the savings can be significant.
DVD Releases for October 27, 2009
Adult Swim In A Box (Turner, $69.98): This set includes six full seasons of Adult Swim’s most popular series: Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Volume Two, Space Ghost: Season Three, Moral Oral: Season One, Robot Chicken: Season Two, Metalocalypse: Season One and Sealab 2021: Season Two. Five never-before-released pilots are also included.
The Asphyx (Hen’s Tooth, $19.95): The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes’ Robert Stephens stars as Sir Hugo Cunningham, a 19th-Century amateur scientist and dabbler in psychic phenomena. His experiments in the new art of photography lead him...
DVD Releases for October 27, 2009
Adult Swim In A Box (Turner, $69.98): This set includes six full seasons of Adult Swim’s most popular series: Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Volume Two, Space Ghost: Season Three, Moral Oral: Season One, Robot Chicken: Season Two, Metalocalypse: Season One and Sealab 2021: Season Two. Five never-before-released pilots are also included.
The Asphyx (Hen’s Tooth, $19.95): The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes’ Robert Stephens stars as Sir Hugo Cunningham, a 19th-Century amateur scientist and dabbler in psychic phenomena. His experiments in the new art of photography lead him...
- 10/27/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (Allan Dart)
- Starlog
In this incarnation of our Videolog column (which began in 1982 with VHS & Betamax and later laserdisc), Starlog posts information weekly regarding selected genre titles now being released (or re-released) on DVD and Blu-ray. Prices listed are Msrp, though any clickable links lead to Amazon where the savings can be significant.
This week’s DVD releases:
Drag Me To Hell (Universal, $29.98 DVD; $39.98 Blu-ray): Director Sam Raimi (Spider-man) returns to the horror genre. Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) is on her way to having it all: a devoted boy friend (Justin Long), a hard-earned job promotion and a bright future. But when she’s forced to make a tough decision that evicts an elderly woman from her house, Christine becomes the victim of an evil curse. Now she has only three days to dissuade a dark spirit from stealing her soul before she’s dragged to hell for an eternity of unthinkable torment.
This week’s DVD releases:
Drag Me To Hell (Universal, $29.98 DVD; $39.98 Blu-ray): Director Sam Raimi (Spider-man) returns to the horror genre. Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) is on her way to having it all: a devoted boy friend (Justin Long), a hard-earned job promotion and a bright future. But when she’s forced to make a tough decision that evicts an elderly woman from her house, Christine becomes the victim of an evil curse. Now she has only three days to dissuade a dark spirit from stealing her soul before she’s dragged to hell for an eternity of unthinkable torment.
- 10/15/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (Allan Dart)
- Starlog
As Ron Howard announces the latest attempt to bring some semblance of the work of Hp Lovecraft to the screen, I'm surprised and overjoyed to see there's a new documentary about Hp hitting DVD. Called "Lovecraft: Fear Of The Unknown," it's a look into the mostly unknown life and work of one of the most influential writers of horror, Sf and fantasy.
Lovecraft: Fear Of The Unknown chronicles Hp Lovecraft's life, his creations, and his influence on writers such as Ramsey Campbell, John Carpenter, Guillermo Del Toro, Neil Gaiman, Stuart Gordon, S.T. Joshi, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Andrew Migliore, Robert M. Price and Peter Straub. It's debuts October 13 on DVD. Official Site: Lovecraft - Fear of the Unknown...
Lovecraft: Fear Of The Unknown chronicles Hp Lovecraft's life, his creations, and his influence on writers such as Ramsey Campbell, John Carpenter, Guillermo Del Toro, Neil Gaiman, Stuart Gordon, S.T. Joshi, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Andrew Migliore, Robert M. Price and Peter Straub. It's debuts October 13 on DVD. Official Site: Lovecraft - Fear of the Unknown...
- 9/25/2009
- doorQ.com
Troma has announced the lineup of its 2009 TromaDance Film Festival, and it’s well-stocked with fright flicks. The 10th-anniversary edition of the event, which runs alongside the Sundance and Slamdance fests in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, takes place January 19-23.
The four features headlining the fest are all genre movies: Bad Biology, Frank (Basket Case) Henenlotter’s gruesome and sexually perverse return to filmmaking; Plague Town, DVD producer David Gregory’s directorial debut about travelers stranded in an Irish village inhabited by deformed and murderous children; Lovecraft: Fear Of The Unknown, Frank H. Woodward’s documentary on the venerated occult author containing interviews with John Carpenter, Guillermo del Toro, Stuart Gordon, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub and others; and Jon Springer’s The Hagstone Demon, starring Mark (American Movie) Borchardt as an alcoholic writer/caretaker dealing with mysterious deaths in his apartment building.
There will also be screenings...
The four features headlining the fest are all genre movies: Bad Biology, Frank (Basket Case) Henenlotter’s gruesome and sexually perverse return to filmmaking; Plague Town, DVD producer David Gregory’s directorial debut about travelers stranded in an Irish village inhabited by deformed and murderous children; Lovecraft: Fear Of The Unknown, Frank H. Woodward’s documentary on the venerated occult author containing interviews with John Carpenter, Guillermo del Toro, Stuart Gordon, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub and others; and Jon Springer’s The Hagstone Demon, starring Mark (American Movie) Borchardt as an alcoholic writer/caretaker dealing with mysterious deaths in his apartment building.
There will also be screenings...
- 12/23/2008
- Fangoria
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