Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Projects, Resignations & Bones

This Friday, Jim Myers and I head to New York. There we'll be adding two interviews to our A-list heavy Lovecraft documentary.

Peter Straub - author of Ghost Story, Koko and Lost Boy Lost Girl


S.T. Joshi - the world's foremost Lovecraft scholar and editor of most modern editions of H.P.L's work


It's looking to be a busy latter half of 2006. In addition to Lovecraft, I will be producing two featurettes for the Mario Bava collection that Anchor Bay is putting out.


Bava was a master of Italian horror. His stylistic portrayal of violence helped shape modern horror films, especially the slasher genre. In some ways, Bava was as influential on horror films as H.P. Lovecraft was on horror in general.

Bava didn't always work in the horror genre, however. His last film, Rabid Dogs (Cani Arrabbiati). While dealing with the subject of fear, Rabid Dogs was basically a crime picture... taking place entirely in a car!

It was never finished in his lifetime (financing fell through during its editing), but his son Lamberto, leading actress Lea Lander and producer Alfredo Leone bought the negative and shot the few bits needed to wrap up Mario's vision.


With all this work, I've sadly had to give up some extracurricular activity. After two years, I have resigned from Monsters & Critics as one of their LA reviewers. It was a fun run and I owe much to editor James Wray for allowing me to contribute when I could.


My last review (for Alomodovar's fim Volver) can be read HERE. Don't worry, though. You can watch this space for movie cheers and jeers.

Keeping in the horror vein for Halloween (naturally), I paid a visit to Boney Island. Imagine Coney Island if all the carneys and marks were skeletons. Better yet, see for yourself.





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