Cold Skin - Poster

ShockTillYouDrop.com has received the first poster for director David Slade's Cold Skin. The film is an adaptation of the best-selling Spanish novel of the same title. Jesus Olmo wrote the screenplay. The following is how the horror/psychological thriller is described:

On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, a ship approaches a desolate island far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man, on his way to assume the post of weather observer, to live in solitude at the end of the earth.

But on shore he finds no trace of the man whom he has been sent to replace, just a deranged castaway who has witnessed a horror he refuses to name. For the next twelve months his entire world will consist of a deserted cabin, trees, rocks, silence and the surrounding sea.

Then night begins to fall...

I all sounds a bit Shadow over Innsmouth to me.

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Altitude - Giant Squid thing in the sky horror

After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves in a showdown with a malevolent supernatural force.

This is an excellent promo poster for an airbourne horror called Altitude. I am digging the whole Cthulhu like Lovecraftian beastie in the clouds.

Altitude is Kaare Andrews' directorial debut. It was written by Paul Birkett, the horror-thriller stars Jessica Lowndes (The Haunting of Molly Hartley).

Source: STYD

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‘The Strange Adventures Of H.P. Lovecraft’ Creators On Why Ron Howard Is Right For Horror Adaptation

I recently posted a story about Ron Howard being attached to direct the comic book adaption of The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft, created by Mac Carter and Jeff Blitz.

Now MTV had an interview with writer/creator Mac Carter (who’s also writing the screenplay for the film) and cover artist/producer Adam Byrne about the comic, the film, Ron Howard and who they would like to play Lovecraft. Here are some of the highlights. Be sure to check out the rest of the interview along with an exclusive 5-page preview of “The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft”

MTV: What’s the appeal of the author as a story character? What aspects of H.P. Lovecraft — the man and his work — will we see in the series and film?

MC: Well, in my mind, it’s no coincidence that the book landed with Universal. When we set out to create the comic we talked a lot about their classic monsters. We felt there was a model at work in their pantheon that we could follow — that of the tragic, misunderstood monster: Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, even the Gill Man. Some of the details of Lovecraft’s sad and complex biography started to suggest a similar character. All we needed was the horror. Well, Lovecraft’s writings provide that in spades.

But let me just say, we have one more hope — that with “The Strange Adventures of HP Lovecraft” we create a curiosity for the man’s idiosyncratic writings, and that a notoriously un-filmable author, not unlike Philip K. Dick with “Blade Runner,” suddenly becomes viable. Because, after all, who doesn’t want to see more of this guy’s mind-blowing stories on the big screen?

AB: Well, the reaction on the internet has been pretty interesting, even though the book hasn’t been released yet. The most important thing to keep in mind is, H.P. Lovecraft is very much the awkward, reclusive writer he’s commonly portrayed as in his biographies and by no means a Hollywood hunk. This is not a gunslinging book for gunslinging sake. It’s the story of a man placed in a very burdensome, nearly tragic set of circumstances who resorts to any means to resolve them.

MTV: Ron Howard isn’t typically viewed as a horror director — why is he right for this project?

MC: Not typically viewed as a horror director, you say? There’s a lot of talkback on blogs about this. Thanks for the opportunity to address it.

Not that the guy needs my endorsement, but perhaps there’s a more generous way of framing Mr. Howard’s talent with respect to horror: to my mind, he is our generation’s Howard Hawks. What about “Rio Bravo” and “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” assured anyone that Hawks would create a classic in “The Thing from Another World?” And yet, there it is — a horror masterpiece.

Put simply, Ron Howard is a storyteller. He’s versatile, working effortlessly and fluently across genres, from balls-to-the-wall action-thriller to historical sit-down drama, always instilling the work with creativity, passion and humanity. Why would his horror film be any different?

AB: First of all, Ron Howard is a great dramatic director. He cares about making the audience connect with the characters. “Frost/Nixon,” “Cinderella Man,” etc, are great indications that Ron can nail a time and a place and ground you in a character’s universe. That’s key for introducing Lovecraft’s biography. If you don’t care about him as a person, you’re not likely to care about the horror unfolding around him.

MTV: In an ideal scenario, who’s your pick to play H.P. Lovecraft in the film?

AB: In creating the character’s look for the comic, Tony Salmons and I talked a lot about a cross between the photographs that exist of the real man and the actor Adrien Brody. When Mac and I watched his acceptance speech at the Academy Awards, the one where he dips Halle Berry, we looked at each other like, that is our H.P. Lovecraft. Obviously, that’s not our call now that it’s getting adapted for film, but it was fun to imagine Adrien while we were making the book.

It all sounds very interesting and I think Brody is an excellent choice to play Lovecraft. Now if only they can get him.

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Ron Howard could be directing The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft

Image Comics' The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft, created by Mac Carter and Jeff Blitz, is being developed for Ron Howard to direct at Universal. The fictionalized tale borrows elements from Lovecraft's life, such as his own bouts with writer's block, and transforms his darkest nightmares into reality.

Toiling away as a timid and eccentric writer of pulp horror stories, H.P.
Lovecraft, is powerless in the world... in love with a girl who doesn't love him
back, mired in a profession that inspires no respect and frozen in the grip of a
terrible writer's block. Until one day when everything changes.
Lovecraft comes in contact with an ancient book that passes onto him an
insidious curse: whenever he sleeps, his darkest nightmares come true and are
loosed on the world. Suddenly, this shy and bumbling writer becomes both
an unwitting god of destruction and the only man who can fight the wickedness he
unleashes. It's a fantastical revision of the life and work of H.P.
Lovecraft, a story in the mold of the classic Universal horror movies. A weird
tale indeed.

Universal picked this up because its take on classic horror fits in well with their monster movies like Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy and the Wolf Man.

Mac Carter, who worked on the comic series and also directs commercials, will write the script and serve as an executive producer.

More info about the comic on the official site.

Ron Howard doing a comic book horror movie. Bit of a change for him. I love all things Lovecraft so it will be great to see the man himself on the big screen. I reckon Howard could be a good choice for the director as he does make quality films.

Two questions for you. Who could play Lovecraft (Don't say Tom Hanks) and what part will Ron's brother, Clint, play?

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Re-Animator remake will star Ezra Godden, Elisha Cuthbert and Jeffrey Coombs.

Horror-Movies have dug up an interview that producers Brian Yuzna (the original Re-Animator) and Ray Haboush (The Last House of the Left) had with a spanish magazine called Fotogramas.

They confirm that they are going ahead with the remake of Re-Animator and it will be shot entirely in Spain and will start as early as next summer.

Yuzna also confirms that this is not a new chapter in the Re-Animator saga, but a remake of the first one which follows a dedicated medical student and his girlfriend who work on reanimating dead tissue. Then one day a young gent by the name of Herbert West arrives on the scene with a peculiar formula that they try. Needless to say things happen that shouldn't and hilarious consequences ensue. By hilarious I mean gore, violence and undead things. As you probably know it is based on a H. P. Lovecraft tale.

Jeffrey Coombs, who played the lead in the original, will have a small part in the remake according to Yuzna, however he won't be reprising his role as Doctor Herbert West. Instead it will go to Ezra Godden, who has done some TV mainly but also starred in Daggon. Co-starring as his gf / fiancee will be Elisha Cuthbert. No word on the rest of the cast at this time though.

All in all, I think this will be worth watching. The original was great but I think a straight remake won't be too bad, plus todays effects should make it even more gruesome than the original. I also think that shooting it in Spain may give it a nice look to the finished film. Not too sure of the casting though. I know nothing about Godden so he may be great, but Elisha Cuthbert hasn't really done anything spectacular. However, Jeffrey Coombs is going to be in it so that's the main thing sorted.

By the way the image on this post features Dr Herbert West about to experiment on Cassie Hack in the excellent comic Hack / Slash.

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Re-Animator to live again

ShockTillYouDrop.com has learned producer Ray Haboush is developing a remake of Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator. Haboush operates Automatic Media and is the owner of Halcyon International Pictures. He'll be shepherding the project with Brian Yuzna, producer of the original '85 and director of Bride of Re-Animator and Beyond Re-Animator.

There have been talks in the past of a House of Re-Animator and a television series. None of which have come to fruition.

Haboush and Yuzna are looking to do the remake in 3-D. And since it's so early in the game, there's no word as to whether Jeffrey Combs would return to reprise his role, or if they'll find someone new to slip into Herbert West's lab coat.

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Colour from the Dark - Adaption of H. P. Lovecraft's tale

Pietro and Lucia live on an isolated farm with Alice, Lucia's younger sister. Poor farmers, they live tilling the soil. Pietro is a good worker and a strong man who, unlike his three brothers, is not at war because of a deformed knee. Lucia is a beautiful and reserved woman dedicated to her family. Their life is peaceful and good, in spite of the hard work. One day, while drawing water from the well, Pietro and Alice accidentally free something from Earth's womb. A strange and alien color flashes underwater, at the well's bottom, then disappears. From that moment on, inexplicable events start happening all around the farm, and by night the surrounding vegetation glitters with a sinister glow. The color soon takes hold of the whole farm, and dwelling inside Pietro and his family's minds, it brings them into its sick world of pain, blood and death.

Colour from the dark from AO on Vimeo.

Source: Quiet Earth

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The Shadow Over Innsmouth - A musical video

Warren Ellis came across this.

A one-minute-thirty-eight-second musical version of HP Lovecraft’s THE
SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH. Really. By the clearly mad George Taylor, lyrics by the HP Lovecraft Historical Society

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