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JustPressPlay has up a short blurb about a Re-Animator series in the works!  Hopefully, it’ll be as entertaining as the movie, but with enough material/character development to sustain it as a show, and not just relying on the name to hold it up.

Bloody-Disgusting received a casting breakdown for a pilot shooting next April called Herbert West: Re-Animator the Series, describing the title character (and, in essence, the show) as “Frankenstein for the new millenium.” A rather ironic description, seeing how Lovecraft hated writing Re-Animator, only doing it for the money and deliberately making it an ultra-violent parody of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Read more at JustPressPlay

It seems that a company out there has trademarked “Re-Animator” and is fighting comic book companies from publishing anything having to do with the term.  This company, known as Re_Animator LLC, trademarked the term in 2005, several years after the movies came out, and many decades after the original stories.

It may seem crazy to Re-Animator fans to think that a company that had nothing to do with the classic films could actually claim ownership of the “Re-Animator” brand and threaten to stop anyone else from creating comics, films or merchandise with the word ‘reanimator’ or ‘re-animator’ in it- even the actual producer of the films that created the brand—but in this wacky world that is exactly what has happened.

My personal thoughts on this?  ”Wow.  This goes beyond stupid.  To take something that has been around for so long, trademark it, then go after companies that produced products well before the trademark that should never have been given in the first place for sheer stupidity.  I’m going to trademark Dorian Grey… or shoe…  From now on youhave to wear foot apparel products!”

And you know what else?

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Read more about the stupidity at IO9

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.

Cinema Suicide has news that Stuart Gordon, famous for Re-Animator and From Beyond, will be working on a film adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s The Thing on the Doorstep.

At the American Film Market it was announced that his next project will be Lovecraft’s short, The Thing On The Doorstep about the soul of a man who possesses the body of his daughter and, later, her husband.

Add this to my ever growing list of films I must see! Read more at Cinema Suicide.

Happy Halloween, my little Droogies.

And what do I have for you today, on this All Hallows Eve? I have pretty links for the pretty eyes to take in and enjoy, oh happy little ones. So turn on the ol’ Ludwig Van, and enjoy this day, for it is one of celebrating, and enjoyment.

First off is the animated adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Terrible Old Man” over at Grim Reviews.

Then we have a list of the top ten horror comedies, as listed by University of Alabama’s “The Crimson White”

Annd of course, those fine fellows and ladies of Ectomo have linked the amazing macabre artwork of Kris Kuksi.

And of course, we can’t forget, the final installment of the LostCarcosa.net WebComic Horror Movie Poster lineup, Night of the Living Undead!

Happy Halloween!

UnderGround Online has a review up of the Director’s cut version of “From Beyond”. They include a mini interview, and some words on the extra features.

How do you follow up a totally f’ed up experience like the Re-Animator? With something even more insane. It’s funny how the Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs cult classic has earned an intensely loyal following over the years, but their follow-up, the nearly-as-good From Beyond, has been mostly ignored.

Go check it out at UGO

Fangoria has just posted up a review of the Unrated Director’s Cut From Beyond DVD. Its a good review with a good bit of info and thoughts.

If FROM BEYOND isn’t held at quite the same esteem as the filmmakers’ previous RE-ANIMATOR—and it should be—perhaps that’s because it explores seriously the combination of horror and eroticism pitched with go-for-broke, jet-black humor in the earlier film. Comic outrageousness is often more attention-getting than a straight face, but the latter approach pays off in FROM BEYOND, which plumbs deeper than RE-ANIMATOR did and pays off in both dramatic intensity and frights aplenty (and, to be sure, a scattering of sick laughs). Its rep has also been tarnished somewhat by cuts imposed by the MPAA on its more grotesque sequences, but all has been rectified on MGM/Fox’s DVD (coming September 11), which restores the film to its uncut glory and backs it up with a fitting supplemental celebration.

Check out the entire read over at Fangoria

Time Out London has an interview with Stuart Gordon, famed director of the Re-Animator series!  While its not a hard-hitting, lengthy interview packed with deep seeking questions and answers, it has a confirmation that might be of interest to you Re-Animator fans!

Check it out at TimeOut.com