Erudite Ed

Damn! First question that I knew the answer to and I missed it! :mad: Do I get a bonus point for mentioning that Harry let Sargent use his body help him to beat up Big Jimmy?

Happy New Year to everyone from me too! One of my new years resolutions is to make it to a KeoghCon/Gathering event this year, so I might see some of you there.

The Source is my favourite too, the way it adds that extra dimension to the storyline and some of the new characters like Jazz and Major Khuv really came alive for me while I was reading it. I liked the first Necroscope too as it had an original take on the classic vampire legends. The Vampire World saga is another great story, following the the lives of the two brothers and the different paths they take makes the Lord of the Rings look like a long, boring walk through the park on a sunny afternoon.

They did the Lovecraft story "The Dreams in the Witch House" on the first series of Masters of Horror, so maybe they could be persuaded to do one of these stories for their next series (if they make one)? Stuart Gordon directed the episode - hes the guy who did the Re-animator movies and From Beyond. They even have a groovy Flash website - no under construction pages tho http://www.mastersofhorror.net/ John Carpenter would be a great choice to direct it - purely on the basis of his film "In the Mouth of Madness"... Do you read Sutter Cane? Oops, I mean Brian Lumley?

Sounds great! If its good enough for Stephen King then why not? I started down the dark path with him (before I even knew he was influenced by Lovecraft), Dean R. Koontz and James Herbert when I was a kid but I found that the quality of the stories was very inconsistant (probably because they are under so much pressure from their publishers to get their stuff out there). The last few years I've focused on mainly Cthulthu Mythos related books after reading nearly all of of H.P. Lovecrafts stories and a few other "classic" gothic authors like Poe and Le Fanu. I'm back reading Brian now as I got "Beneath the moors and darker Places" for my birthday last month and I'm (re)reading the first Necroscope books again. I've still not got around to reading the last of the series from E-branch onwards but they are in the queue! The only other author I've read recently is Ramsey Campbell who I have to support really as he lives in the same town as me - I read a collection of his short stories before Christmas and I have to admit some of his stories are really quite disturbing, especially when I know some of the local places that he used as influences for his stories! :eek: Anyway, I'm really getting way off topic here - now I have upgraded to the rank of the Elite I thought I'd throw in a bit more info. about me but now I'm just starting to ramble on... The thing is, that once you read enough of this stuff you start to see (or think you see) Cthulthu Mythos related concepts everywhere. For example, I was certain that the Island in Lost was going to be something to do with the Mythos until I read the Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.

I'd have to place both feet firmly in the movie camp because I am fed up of getting into a new TV series only to find out that the networks have cancelled it 1/2 way through due to poor ratings! Anyone remember the 90's BBC series Ultraviolet? The plot revolved around an agency setup by the Catholic church to capture vampires and stop them from taking over. They had these cool guns that fired liquid UV and had a TV on them instead of a scope because the vamps didn't show up on them. 6-8 episodes later and it was taken off the air never to return... :mad: There are a couple of TV series running at the moment revolving around vampires anyway. Blood Ties is terrible and I think has been cancelled, there is also a new series called Moonlight where the central character is a detective who is also a vampire - sound familiar? Personally, I'd like to see a TV series based on some of the Cthulthu Mythos stories that Brian has done instead. Maybe a modern version of the Lost World where characters are taken from Earth by Ithiqua and dumped on a distant planet to fend for themselves and do battle with his worshippers. Or maybe a series based on the Dreamlands with coma patients having to resolve some kind of mystery so they can wake up... If anyone works in TV and is interested in making any of these shows, you can contact me via my agent!

You missed out Chapter 1 of the first book, with Dragosani doing his necromancy - that scene should be after the title sequence. Anyway, I think I'd like to see more special effects seeing as the guy from Heroes is doing them! They don't need to be something that costs millions and sell the movie, they just need to be subtle like they are in heroes when Claire does her regeneration - the fact that you can't really notice them makes them all the more realistic. I'm reading Necroscope III again at the moment - the saga really starts to gain momentum with this book and has a bit of everything. I wonder if for the movie they merge books I & II or just drop book II and go straight to book III for the second movie.

Thats one sweet tattoo! I was thinking of getting an Elder Sign done myself, would help to ward off those pesky cultists!

I was just wondering if anyone be interested in seeing any of the other novels/short stories made into a movie? If the necroscope movie is successful, do you think it could happen? If so, what would you like to see next?

Have a look around the site posem, I'm sure that I saw some Necroscope T-shirts for sale somewhere on here...

I was just on imdb and I stumbled across Sam Raimi's (Evil Dead, Spiderman) new movie 30 Days of Night - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389722/. It's about vampires invading a town in Alaska as it is plunged into darkness for a month with it being above the arctic circle... So hopefully if this movie is sucessful then maybe Hollywood will start looking at investing in other vampire-based movies and help get the ball rolling with this one. Having the FX guys from Heroes will add some extra kudos to the project too - their FX in Heroes is amazing! I re-read the fisrt Necroscope book last month (between the two Lost Years books), there is plenty in there for a complete movie so I hope they don't decide to merge the series together like they did with Queen of the Damned. As for the sex and violence - there was not a lot of that going on in the first book anyway so I don't see it being a problem. Its easy enough to pan away to a roaring log fire while they "get down to business" and the mind always imagines a lot worse than what you actually see on the screen. Oh and one more thing (off topic), how about a Necroscope T-shirt with "B.J. is Innocent.. (isn't she)?" on the back?

Well its in the list of "Current Projects" so they must be doing something with the movie! I liked the concept of My Kinda Town, also Christopher Lambert is in a couple of their movies - I could see him as a Wamphyri, he has the accent for it already!

I have Silent Hill on DVD - the story is slightly different to the one in the game, but most of the locations and key characters are there...

I still think Silent Hill is a good example of good special effects as they used latex costumes for the monsters rather than CGI. This gave a much more "realistic" feel to the characters as they were part of the shoot and not added on in post like CGI is. It also added to the actors performances as they could see the monsters and could react to them rather than having to act in front of a broom with a tennis ball on the end of it! Another movie that I thought was great and had me a nervous wreck when the end credits rolled is 28 Weeks Later... This movie is a good example at how important pacing and good writing/directing is - not many special effects in this movie, just edge of your seat tension from start to finish! :eek:

You can check the domain details - called a WHOIS lookup here: http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=necroscopethemovie.com If you look at the second film it is actually a 20 minute short - some good actors in it though... I liked the master of disguise and deuce bigalow, but like you say if they specialise in comedies and TV shows then what the hell are they doing buying the rights to a horror???