Bad Advice For Good Times

Black Goat Won’t Be First

castingcallofcthulhu — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:34:02 +0000

Despite all the hype around our planned period piece it won’t be the first feature from Bad Advice For Good Times. Pre-production has begun on Black Seas, a reference from H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu, and the feature is scheduled to shoot in March. The plot revolves around a man known only as J who wakes up in an escape shuttle with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. His only clues come from a virtual HR representative who helps J rebuild his fragile psyche. Things take a turn for the worse when an alien presence appears aboard the craft and begins to contradict everything J believes about himself and the situation.

Fans of Elder Sign and The Necronomicon will appreciate the darkly comical script, while HPL fans will love the cosmic horror, both felt and realized.

Filed under: Black Goat, Black Seas, Coming Soon, Cthulhu is Coming, Love to Lovecraft, Production Tagged: abdul alhazred, al azif, Black goat, call of cthulhu, comedy, dave carson, Elder Sign, guillermo del toro, horror, hp lovecraft, hp lovecraft film festival, hpl, Necronomicon, old ones, short film, shub-niggurath

Black Goat Update: No CGI, New Creatures, Much Darker, More Humour

castingcallofcthulhu — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:38:42 +0000

Much has happened in the world of the Goat since we last chatted – we’ve got a distributor interested, the script’s been covered, and pre-visualization has begun. As mentioned, Dave Carson will be working on new designs for both the Dark Young and Shub which will depart from the designs depicted in the short film. The main reason for this is we’ve already shown our cards in the short, so we need something different. But the creatures in the feature are sparser and more indistinguishable, and by virtue more Lovecraftian. We will also be visualizing them through practical effects, rigs, and large scale models. There was great debate over VFX and in the end it was decided that CGI characters are too literal. There will still be a ton of effects shots but you won’t see the wires, as they say.

The script has been out to readers and is receiving rave reviews. And while the content is dark, the locations grim and frostbitten, there is a fair amount of humour on the page. We simply can’t make a film about The Necronomicon with a straight face, you should know us by now. Jock is much more of a noob, the 17th century version of a trust fund brat, and less the RJ MacReady inspired coureur de bois of the short.

The teaser continues to delight and polarize viewers around the globe. Shit went crazy when Guillermo del Toro said he loved it, called the atmosphere “impeccable”, and compared it to Algernon Blackwood. Most recently it has popped up at io9 – view it HERE. We love the exposure, but who knew we were making the genre short equivalent of the Sex Pistols? Some of the comments are pretty funny and we find it amusing that people would take the time to seriously evaluate a switch axe.

Filed under: Black Goat, CGI, Coming Soon, Production Tagged: abdul alhazred, al azif, Black goat, black metal, call of cthulhu, dark young, dave carson, Elder Sign, guillermo del toro, hp lovecraft, hp lovecraft film festival, hpl, Joseph Nanni, Necronomicon, shub-niggurath

DAVE CARSON JOINS BLACK GOAT

castingcallofcthulhu — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:16:59 +0000

We are pleased to announce that Lovecraft luminary Dave Carson will be helping us realize some Elder God nastiness for the upcoming feature Black Goat. If you are not familiar with Dave’s work, shame on you, then go check it out HERE!

Dave seems excited, we say, “Be careful what you ask for.”

Filed under: Black Goat, Love to Lovecraft, People, Production Tagged: abdul alhazred, al azif, Black goat, brian lumley, call of cthulhu, dark young, dave carson, Elder Sign, hp lovecraft, hp lovecraft film festival, hpl, Joseph Nanni, Necronomicon, old ones, shub-niggurath

Black Goat T-Shirts Have Arrived!

castingcallofcthulhu — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:44:50 +0000

This is your chance to go down in cinematic history and look swell doing it. Here be the Black Goat logo shirt designed by crew member and art director Alan Lukatela. The shirt features the roots logo, big and bold in white on black. But that is far from all . . . when you purchase the shirt from this first batch of 50 you will be thanked in the upcoming credits of Joseph Nanni’s feature film version of Black Goat. What? Just for buying and awesome shirt? Ya, that’s right.

Click HERE to visit our shop on Etsy!

Filed under: Black Goat, Love to Lovecraft, Products Tagged: abdul alhazred, al azif, black metal, call of cthulhu, dark young, Elder Sign, etsy, guillermo del toro, hp lovecraft, hp lovecraft film festival, imdb, Joseph Nanni, lovecraft, Necronomicon, short film, shub-niggurath

NOW WE’RE MAD

Bad Advice for Good Times — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:14:36 +0000

Oscar Wilde said, “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” The only thing worse than either of those two things is when people use YOUR name when they’re actually talking about someone else. Kinda like the people talking about Black Goat while actually watching another film called “Good Times Will Never Be The Same.” How somebody watches the trailer for Black Goat and then the other film, trading under our name and logo, and still thinks they have anything in common is completely beyond us. You have to be a special kind of moron to relate the two and even more special to go on IMDB and talk about it and rate it. Here’s something even more special, someone has actually gone to the trouble of mocking-up a DVD for our non-existent film. Ahh the douchery.

So if you come across a copy of a Black Goat feature film don’t bother watching it because a feature doesn’t exist. And if you download a copy of a film called Black Goat from any of the following sites then you’ve been had:

www.ganool.com

www.duasatu.com

www.napifilm.com

www.hnmovies.com

www.moviewatchmachine.com

www.film-unduh.com

www.qualitymovies.tv

www.zenithforumz.com

www.watch-the-movies-online.com

www.moviesplanet.com

www.digitalmoviez.com

www.forum.downparadise.ws

www.mediafire-movies.blogspot.com

warez-serbia.com

www.mafiaforum.de

www.gelang-hitam.blogspot.com

www.fdmovie.com

www.movie.plugdownload.com

www.sofilmendo.com

www.nurcellmovies.info

www.tv-links.eu

And if you watch the film and can’t figure out that it has nothing to do with the trailer that just pulled you in, and you hate it because it wasn’t anything like the trailer, and then you decide to rate it on IMDB because the sites listed above have a convenient link to OUR film, and you rate it like you hate it, well, thanks for nothing.

Filed under: Black Goat

The Great Black Goat T-Shirt Giveaway Hath Begun!

castingcallofcthulhu — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:05:13 +0000

Hello Friends, Followers, and Likers,
The Black Goat team is gearing up for action and we want your help building our network and spreading word ’bout the Goat. All you have to do is introduce 10 of your friends to this page and have them “like” it, and you’ll get a free, awesome, Black Goat t-shirt. There are two designs to choose from.

Simply get your friends to like and post “__________ brought me” and we’ll keep track of your introductions.

We’ll post the winners at the end of the offer on November 20, 2011.

Here’s the link!

Filed under: Black Goat, Coming Soon, Love to Lovecraft, Products Tagged: abdul alhazred, al azif, Black goat, black metal, call of cthulhu, dark young, guillermo del toro, horror, hp lovecraft, hp lovecraft film festival, hpl, Joseph Nanni, short film, shub-niggurath

Black Goat Besieged By Indonesian Pirates

castingcallofcthulhu — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:55:39 +0000

When our new short film popped up a few weeks back its enigmatic content was the source of much speculation. Some people thought it was a teaser for a feature, some thought it was a new Slipknot video (we weren’t at all opposed to this interpretation), and some thought it was a scene from an existing film. We were getting hundreds of hits a day so we really didn’t care what people thought. And then some bullshit happened. Eager to dupe the public someone started sharing a work print of a feature length film under the name Black Goat. Not only that, they used our poster for their film. On top of that they used images of Adam Wilson as screen grabs from their film. And the piste de résistance . . . they used our short as the trailer for their film, and our synopsis too. We can’t imagine what people were thinking when they pressed play on the illegal download. The “work” is in no way related to what we are doing. The film that is out there trading under our banner is, well, let’s just say, not really our thing and now this completely random piece of work is dragging us down on IMDB and discussion boards. We are not amused. So if you have a second please head over to our IMDB page HERE and give us a vote or help set things straight on the boards. Thanks.

Filed under: Coming Soon, Festivals, Love to Lovecraft, Production Tagged: abdul alhazred, al azif, Black goat, black metal, dark young, guillermo del toro, hp lovecraft, hp lovecraft film festival, hpl, imdb, lovecraft, Necronomicon, short film

Black Goat To Open For Troll Hunter

castingcallofcthulhu — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:02:52 +0000

If you haven’t seen Black Goat on the big screen then you haven’t seen Black Goat. If you haven’t seem Troll Hunter then you should. Why not kill two birds with one stone and see Black Goat before you see Troll Hunter at the Dark Bridges Film Festival in sunny Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on Friday, September 29, at 7PM. Troll Hunter is from Norway and Black Goat is heavily influenced by their grim and frostbitten kingdoms. It’s sure to be a great night out for you and the wife.

Filed under: Coming Soon, Festivals, Production Tagged: al azif, Black goat, black metal, call of cthulhu, CGI, dark bridges film festival, dark young, guillermo del toro, horror, hp lovecraft, hp lovecraft film festival, hpl, Joseph Nanni, norway, old ones, shub-niggurath, troll hunter

Guillermo Del Toro To Pass Judgement On Black Goat

castingcallofcthulhu — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:42:10 +0000

As is if making insider films in a sub, sub genre of horror and science fiction, loosely based on the writings of a relatively unknown misanthropic pulp writer from the 20′s/30′s wasn’t hard enough, now we find out that a giant of the horror genre, and arguably one of the best filmmakers of the 21st century, will be judging said films. Guillermo Del Toro will be judging the short films at this years’ HP Lovecraft Film Festival in Los Angeles, Friday, September 16 and Saturday, September 17, at the Warner Grand in San Pedro. This will also be the world festival premiere of Black Goat, so you may want to see it here before all the nerds start asking, “why does a coureur de bois have a viking axe?”*

* We’ll be happy to explain why when some gives us a bucket of money to make the feature.

Filed under: Coming Soon, Festivals, Love to Lovecraft Tagged: animation, Black goat, black metal, dark young, guillermo del toro, horror, hp lovecraft, hp lovecraft film festival, Joseph Nanni, lovecraft, old ones, short film, shub-niggurath

Be Cool, Black Goat is Coming

castingcallofcthulhu — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:24:31 +0000

The hotly anticipated new chiller from Bad Advice for Good Times and Joseph Nanni was due out five days ago. But after several viewings we decided it needed to be 10% awesomer. The film we be available to our YouTube channel subscribers first and then begin a festival run in early September – it was shot in 2K, 2:35 so you will want to see this on the big screen. In the meantime, please enjoy our other films or read a book – may we recommend The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen.

Filed under: Coming Soon, Festivals, Love to Lovecraft, Music, Production Tagged: Black goat, black metal, call of cthulhu, dark young, Elder Sign, guillermo del toro, horror, hp lovecraft, hp lovecraft film festival, hpl, Joseph Nanni, lovecraft, Necronomicon, shub-niggurath