Peaky Lady
image: Linda Matthew
I love this picture, it only recently arrived amongst the final batch from our photographer at The Call of Cthulhu event at the EIFF. No reason to post, other than it being MY website and you SEE what I decide. Tomorrow, a picture of a kitten in a blender.
Red Alert
The final batch of pictures are back from our Cthulhu snapper Linda Matthew and this one group shot looks like a Dynasty-line up for a new medical drama. I'm calling it 'Red Alert', where the living and the undead work side-by-side to salvage and despatch souls that stagger into their emergency room - or their bed. Form an orderly queue! In repeat syndication on a cable channel in your area soon.
Did you do Cthulhu?
photo: Linda Matthew
We set the bar high with Blood Tea and I wasn't sure we could match it - at least not in volume of free-flowing alcoholic juju - but by crikey almighty, we did! The first pictures are back from our talented snapper Linda and they capture what was a brilliant group effort during Arkham Sanitarium's open evening for our expanded screening of The Call of Cthulhu. From Kev's extraterrestrial idol (actually modelling clay and spray paint rolled in dirt) to the moans and insane mutterings of The Dungeonettes, we sipped orange vodka from urine pots and scoffed enough Jelly Belly prescription beans to entice a sugar coma. But at least medical assistance was on hand!
photo: Linda Matthew
- photo: Linda Matthew
photo: Linda Matthew
photo: Linda Matthew
photo: Linda Matthew
photo: Linda Matthew
photo: Linda Matthew
Arkham Sanitarium
Thank you to everyone, both cast and audience, who made last night's expanded cinema screening for The Call of Cthulhu such a massive success. Some of those who came along were even heard to say that it was their favourite event of the entire festival! A special bow of ground-grazing gratitude to Mark Daniels of Inspace for support beyond the call of duty (including acting duties), Rebecca Guest (pictured) for filling the flat shoes of our crazed pharmacist, The Dungeonettes, Jelly Belly Gourmet Jelly Beans and MacCorns Popcorn. A review and full gallery to follow, but I need a couple of hours kip before I climb into a flight suit for this evening's performance of Moon, including an introduction from an honest-to-goodness astronaut!
Sinkhole
Sinkhole: Director Eric Scherbarth
Prospective patients attending tonight's open evening at Arkham Sanitarium are in for a treat. In addition to the feature screening of the The Call of Cthulhu from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, we are also thrilled to announce the European Premiere of Sinkhole by director/writer/editor Eric Scherbarth. A salesman approaches a mysterious landowner with an offer to buy the man's smouldering abandoned coal mines but finds that there is more at stake than the land. Winner of Best Short Film at the NYC Horror Film Festival 2009, it should prove a deliriously terrifying side dish alongside the likes of Eel Girl (Dir. Paul Campion) and Elder Sign (Dir. Joseph Nanni). I do so hope no one is of a nervous disposition. You may wish to bring a pillow to bite upon.
Eel Girl: Dir. Paul Campion
Candy striped
Jak Morgan and Bren O'Callaghan / photo: Judy Cabbages
The first batch of photos are back from our ace photographer Judy Cabbages of Blood Tea And Red String at Inspace, Edinburgh. The colour palette suggested by the film and imposed to an extent by the location worked incredibly well as we cranked up the red, white and black for our cupcake table, make-up booth and hanging bough from The Tree of Unrequited Love (loaded with handmade anatomical hearts for raffle prizes). I'll write up greater detail and create a gallery for the event soon, but for now I have my head down on tomorrow's oddball activity - H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu, with a late confirmation and star turn from The Dungeonettes as inmates of Arkham Sanitarium!
photo: Mark Daniels
Lizzie's Tea Party / photo: Judy Cabbages
photo: Judy Cabbages
Lizzie's Tea Party / illustrations: Emma Rios / photo: Judy Cabbages
Lucy / photo: Judy Cabbages
photo: Mark Daniels
photo: Judy Cabbages
Lizzie's Tea Party / photo: Judy Cabbages
Jak Morgan / photo: Judy Cabbages