Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 12:18 am Post subject: Chill and Cthulhu and Cool Air! Oh my!
Besides Cthulhu (yes the one with Tori Spelling), there are several other feature length adaptations of Lovecraft's stories awaiting the festival circuit...
Albert Pyun's (The Sword and the Sorcerer, Cyborg) adaptation of Cool Air (titled Cool Air)...
About the film: Charlie Baxter, a struggling screenwriter, is searching for accommodation in a rundown mansion somewhere in the isolated mountains above Malibu. An expressionless and creatively bankrupt young man who rewrites exploitation sci-fi / horror scripts for a living, he takes a room in the mansion and learns of the mysterious doctor residing in the room above his own who dabbles in strange experiments. As he learns more about the circumstances of the doctor and the history of his landlady, her autistic daughter and the strange lodger across the hall, Baxter is inspired to write his long blocked "great American Screenplay". Working furiously, Baxter suffers a heart attack, and staggers up to see the doctor for treatment. He passes out immediately, but awakens a cured man. But at a terrible price. The Doctor, a strangely preserved woman named Shockner, persuades Baxter to stay until he recovers fully, and informs her "patient" of the medical condition that has forced her into a hermit's existence. Twenty years ago Shockner suffered a fatal disease. Her solution found in the occult and dark arts, preserved her life but at the cost. Slowly Baxter is drawn into a nightmarish world of insane experiments and murder. He knows something must be done to stop the evil that resides in the room at the top of the stairs.
And Serge Rodnunsky's Chill (also based on Cool Air)...
About the film: In this classic retro horror film inspired by the H.P. Lovecraft short story “Cool Air”, Sam (Thomas Calabro, Melrose Place), an aspiring writer, gets a job as a clerk in an inner city grocery owned by a mysterious Dr. Munoz(Shaun Kurtz). Dr. Munoz is a former scientist who claims to have a rare skin condition that forces him to live in sub-freezing temperatures. However, as Sam is later horrified to learn, Munoz died some time ago, but has kept himself alive through occult measures and the flesh harvested from his victims.
After Sam befriends a neighborhood store owner Maria (Ashley Laurence, Hell Raiser) he finds himself facing death at Munoz’s hands. With Detective Defazio (James Russo, Donnie Brasco) off track in his investigation Sam must decide whether he will join Munoz’s unholy ranks to save his own hide – literally…
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