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At the Mountains of Madness: H. P. Lovecraft and Hollywood
While Universal’s planned version of AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS was being put on hold, I began looking as some of the dates when Lovecraft came up with his classic terror stories. I was rather startled to see that Lovecraft’s work was mostly done in close harmony with the classic era of Hollywood horror in the twenties [...]
Del Toro to Leave ‘Mountains of Madness’?
Guillermo del Toro to forsake Lovecraft’s frozen hell for PACIFIC RIM? UPDATED
Del Toro and Cameron to explore Lovecraft’s Mountains of Madness?
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Over at Deadline New York, Mike Fleming suggests that Guillermo Del Toro’s next directorial effort with be his long-in-gestation adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s novel At the Mountains of Madness, with – get this – James Cameron producing. If true, the news is certainly a welcome surprise; only last month, Del Toro was saying [...]
‘Altitude’ Picked Up – Trailer
Accoring to The Hollywood Reporter, the SF/Horror film ALTITUDE has been picked up for release by Anchor Bay Films.
“After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot (90210’s Jessica Lowndes) and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural force.”
Directed by Kaare Andrews, [...]
Stuart Gordon finds a “Thing on the Doorstep”
Esplatter recycles some information gleaned from Fangoria: Stuart Gordon is planning to film H. P. Lovecraft’s classic tale, “A Thing on the Doorstep,” which will be produced by Amicus, the company that financed his recent art-house release STUCK.
Gordon told Fangoria that he hopes to begin filming in the fall. “It follows the short story pretty closely, [...]
Del Toro’s Lovecraftian Madness
MTV’s Movie Blog has a brief interview with writer-director Guillermo Del Toro, in which he expresses his enthusiasm for a film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s novel At the Mountains of Madness:
“I remember when I was a kid out of the studios came the big event horror movies, ‘The Exorcist,’ ‘Alien,’ ‘Jaws,’ ‘The Shining,’” del Toro [...]
