Lost Carcosa

Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs make a great pair in the movie industry.  At least I seem to think so.  They do a great job creating entertaining movies together, but it looks like Combs has turned down playing a part in Gordon’s adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Thing at the Doorstep”.

Stuart was like, ‘Yeah, I know, being in bed with beautiful women all day, it sounds tough, and I went, ‘You know, Stuart, actually, it is. I’m married, and I don’t wanna do that.’ It’s not part of my world. It was just too much, it was like, ‘And then they’re writhing, and then they’re humping some more, and then they build to a climax, and then they climax, and sweat…” I wish him all the best with that one, but not every project’s right for me.  

~Combs

You can read Comb’s thoughts over at Arrow in the Head News.

More Jeffrey Combs stuff!  HorrorYearBook has news that Jeffrey Combs is returning in “Abominable 2″.

According to Bloody Disgusting, Jeffrey Combs has wrapped up his latest film, “The Darkest Evil”, an adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror”.  In the film will be Dean Stockwell as Henry Armitage!

Unfortunately, according to what Unfilmable says, Fangoria says that Stuart Gordon says that the House of Re-animator is no longer going to be.  I’m bummed.  I’d like to have seen another Re-animator film made, and this one sounded like it was going to be fun.  Maybe a bit campy… but then weren’t the others as well?

Today’s set of links, some a few days old by now, is brought to you by Chaosium, Yog-Sothoth.com, Unfilmable, and Ectomo.

First, we have a link post from Yog-Sothoth.com.  They’ve got news on the second book from “The Unspeakable Vault”, and the “Worlds of Cthulhu #5″.

Second, we have another YSDC link.  This one about the new “Delta Green: Eyes Only“.

Next, from Unfilmable, we have the DVD release of “The Whisperer in the Darkness“.  I’ll have to look into gettin one of these.

And finally, from Ectomo, we have the music video “Move Your Dead Bones“, a German Pop star’s take on Reanimator.

I finally managed to get myself sitting long enough to watch one of the many movies on my shelves that I haven’t yet watched. (Hopefully I can do the same with the books…) This weekend, it was Stuart Gordon’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” for the Masters of Horror series.

First off, the visuals were great. They talk about the visuals in the “making of” featurette, cleverly titled, “The Tell-tale Cat”. The usage of old-fashioned washed-out colors with vibrant color to highlight bits looked great and did a great job setting the atmosphere. The scenes were shot well, and the special effects were not all that bad. The part with the eyeball was great.

Jeffrey Combs did an excellent job playing the deranged E.A. Poe, grandson of General David Poe, Hero of the Revolution. Not only does he look a good deal like Poe, but he oes a great job playing the part of a man going insane. Hi co-stars also did an excellent job playing their parts as well.

Where the film feels off is the way it flips back and forth between Poe and Virginia. Madness, sooth the girl, madness, sooth the girl. Its just a bit annoying at times.

Aside from that point, I highly recommend seeing it for the visuals, the excellent acting, and the entertaining quality of the movie. If I had half scores, I’d give it a 3.5. It was a good entertaining film with excellent visuals and acting, and a must have for the avid Gordon or Poe collector.