Wyrd Games, the creators of such games as Malifaux, Through the Breach, and The Other Side, have announced their upcoming releases for May of 2020. The releases will come later in the month of May, to promote their sales at local gaming stores above their own website's store. Before we get around to showcasing those releases, we did […]
Title: Cthulhu is Hard to Spell: The Terrible Twos Creators: Russell Nohelty, Kristen Simon (editor), various creators, including Paul Jenkins (Spider-Man), Ray-Anthony Height (Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur), Christian Gossett (The Red Star), and 70 others. Close date: March 26th Platform: Kickstarter Logline: Cthulhu is Hard to Spell is our love letter to Lovecraft fans […]
Fantasy Flight Games has announced an all-new expansion for Arkham Horror! "Under Dark Waves", the next expansion for Fantasy Flight's cosmically-terrifying Arkham Horror board game, will feature an array of undersea denizens as they terrorize Arkham and beyond. From the product announcement release on Fantasy Flight's website: Cold salt waves beat on the New England […]
This episode of Castle Talk we're chatting about Color Out of Space, a new science fiction horror film that marks the return to feature directing from Richard Stanley, who brought us such films as Dust Devil and his cult favorite debut Hardware. The new film stars Nicolas Cage as a man who's moved his family […]
Yes, this is an actual game. Based on an April Fools' Day joke made some time ago, Barkham Horror: The Meddling of Meowlathotep is a standalone Arkham Horror adventure wherein players play as anthropomorphic hounds instead of their normal, human counterparts. The caveat is that the titular horrors have been replaced with cat versions as well. From Fantasy […]
This morning, I sent a note to legendary comic book creator Keith Giffen congratulating him on the news about Lovecraft. He asked what I was talking about. Because yesterday, Deadline announced that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, best known for writing/directing/showrunning Game of Thrones at HBO, were developing a film based on the DC/Vertigo original graphic […]
Lovecraft fans have a lot to smile about always, and now it looks like they will have even more. Coming Soon is reporting that there is a Lovecraft Trilogy of films being worked on by SpectreVision, the production house overseen by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Josh C. Waller. The first will be out in […]
Smashed is the latest collection of translated stories Junji Ito from Viz Media and that's always an event especially if you love horror. Ito is arguably the best writer and artist of horror comics in the world. [rwp_box_recap id="1"] Ito is not the only Japanese mangaka who specializes in horror stories, but he's probably […]
Free League Publishing is expanding their horizons a bit and taking on the iconic H.P. Lovecraft short story The Call of Cthulhu as their next Kickstarter project. The version of the story being Kickstarted is an illustrated edition of the short story with gorgeous art by François Baranger. As for why you'd want to Kickstart the project? Well, […]
Netflix's 10-episode series adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's comic book Locke & Key has added Petrice Jones (Step Up: High Water) to the village of Lovecraft, Massachusetts – joining series lead Darby Stanchfield (Scandal) and an ensemble cast in the upcoming project from Hill, Carlton Cuse, and IDW Entertainment. Netflix's adaptation of the horror/fantasy comic book series focuses on the Locke siblings […]
Netflix's 10-episode series adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's comic book series Locke & Key has found the matriarch of the Locke family. ABC Scandal veteran Darby Stanchfield is set to star as Nina Locke in the upcoming project from Hill, Carlton Cuse and IDW Entertainment. Netflix's adaptation of the horror/fantasy comic book series […]
Netflix's 10-episode series adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's comic book series Locke & Key has added two more citizens to the television town of Lovecraft, Massachusetts. American Vandal's Griffin Gluck is set to join the cast as a series regular, while veteran genre actor Steven Williams (The Chi, The X-Files) will take on a recurring […]
The holidays are meant to be for family, so it seems appropriate for Netflix to introduce us to two more members of their Locke family for the streaming service's 10-episode series adaptation of writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez's comic book series Locke & Key. Connor Jessup (American Crime) and Utopia's Emilia Jones are set to take on the […]
Less than month after Netflix ordered a 10-episode adaptation of the Joe Hill/Gabriel Rodriguez comic book series and nearly five months since Hulu surprised many by passing on the project, showrunner/executive producer Carlton Cuse (LOST) finally opened up about what it was like trying to get Locke & Key picked up by another streaming service or […]
Nearly two months after it was reported the streaming service was in direct negotiations to acquire the project, Netflix has officially announced a 10-episode adaptation of writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez's comic book series Locke & Key from Carlton Cuse and IDW Entertainment. Hill and Cuse are set to be joined on the creative team […]
Courtney B. Vance (American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson), Aunjanue Ellis (Quantico) and Elizabeth Debicki (The Tale) have been cast opposite Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Jonathan Majors, and Wunmi Mosaku in HBO's upcoming drama series Lovecraft Country. Adapted from Matt Ruff's novel of the same name, the project stems from Academy Award winner Jordan Peele's (Get Out) […]
Writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez Locke & Key is proving the old adage "as one door closes, another one opens" true, with the series adaptation of the horror/fantasy comic book series finding a new home at Netflix. Though the streaming service declined to comment as the deal isn't yet complete, sources say that it […]
Wunmi Mosaku (Kiri, The End of the F**king World) will be joining lead opposite previously announced Jonathan Majors and Jurnee Smollett-Bell in HBO's upcoming drama series Lovecraft Country, Deadline Hollywood reports. Adapted from Matt Ruff's novel of the same name, the project stems from Academy Award winner Jordan Peele's (Get Out) Monkeypaw Productions, J.J. Abrams's Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television. Yann Demange (Top […]
Jonathan Majors (Hostiles) will be joining previously announced Jurnee Smollett-Bellhas on HBO's upcoming series roadtrip through Lovecraft Country. Adapted from Matt Ruff's novel of the same name, the project stems from Academy Award winner Jordan Peele's (Get Out) Monkeypaw Productions, J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot and Warner Bros Television. Yann Demange (Top Boy) will direct and executive produce […]
It appears director Andy Muschietti's series pilot for his adaptation of writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez's horror/fantasy comic book series Locke & Key is looking for a new home, with Hulu passing on the project. Starring Frances O'Connor, Megan Charpentier, Jackson Robert Scott and Jack Mulhern, the Hill-written/Muschietti-directed pilot is now being pitched to other streaming […]
