Guillermo Del Toro To Pass Judgement On Black Goat

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.

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See Black Goat Before The Herd

Subscribers to Joseph Nanni’s Youtube channel Bad Advice For Good Times will see the new short film Black Goat weeks before it is released to the public.  The film is currently in the final stages of post production and will be screened at a handful of festivals this fall.  But anyone who hits “subscribe” between now and June 30 will not only be among the first to see the short but will also have access to exclusive character designs and a limited edition comic based the expanded story.  Good times.

Click here for the channel!

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Black Goat Release Date Announced

Joseph Nanni and Bad Advice For Good Times’ new short film, Black Goat, will be released on July 15 but details on where are still unknown.  The film, being described as “haunting” and “visually stunning”, features visual effects by Rubber Pixel and Loki and stars genre veteran Adam Wilson (Manson, Suck, XIII).  Supporters of the film will see if first in a private on-line showing through special invitation.  The film is the first part in a series of shorts under the same title.  A Black Metal inspired one-sheet teaser was released earlier this month.

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Elder Sign Jingle

You asked for it, you got it – the complete Elder Sign jingle unabridged and uninterrupted.  Click on the image, and cover your ears!

 

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Watch The World Premiere of Elder Sign

Tonight, Wednesday February 25 at 7 PM GMT,  log on to Yog Sothoth dot com and watch the world premiere of Bad Advice for Good Times’ new Lovecraftian short Elder Sign.  Put on your laughin’ boots, this one’s a real chuckler.

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Support Elder Sign And CCOC In Style

Cover your weak flesh and celebrate the shorts you love with a sharp new shirt designed by Spacecadet Design and produced by Uptown Hustle Apparel. These nifty all-cotton T’s in various colours and styles may actually help attract evil. Each shirt bears the ancient symbol or “logo” from the film poster created by Spacecadet using non-euclidean geometrical shapes, which draw viewers in unknowingly.  Every dollar goes right back into our productions, and helps pay for the ones we’ve already done.  Buy now, quantities are unlimited.  

Visit our shop today!

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It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s A Half Polypous, Utterly Alien Entity

Producing Casting Call of Cthulhu failed to provoke insanity, although watching  it drove a few people crazy, and the Bad Advice for Good Times crew lived to film again.  The new short was colour transferred just yesterday and sound post will finish next week.  But be forewarned – there is no escaping madness this time around.  To prepare you for what is to come we offer here a small, untextured, uncoloured sample of the horror that awaits you.  Warning:  The final character will be only partly material and you may experience temporary lapses of visibility.  

 

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First of Three New HPL Films Now In Post-Production

In October, Bad Advice for Good Times announced that Joseph Nanni (Casting Call of Cthulhu) would be following up the success of his freshman effort with a new short.  He wasn’t fhtagn around.  Filming finished late last Monday, the rough-cut is in the can, and the footage is now in the hands of 4 Stroke animation who will be realizing another HPL inspired beastie with the same awesomeness they brought to the Great Race.  The short was shot with Red Camera by D.P. Ray Dumas.  Nanni says, “the film is funni-er than the one other film I have done.”

Keep watching this space for more news.  Rumour is the trailer for Drawing Baphomet is also finished.  The stars are right in 2009!

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I Can Haz Amberg Horror Fest?

If you live in Europe and you love Casting Call of Cthulhu then we have a hard time believing you because the film has yet to be shown in Europe.  CCoC will have its European premiere at the Amberg Horror Festival, OKT 28 to NOV 2.  So go see it and then say you love it.  You don’t have to lie to impress us – we like you for who you are.  Oh wait, the film is on the Internet, and Yog Sothoth, and Youtube, and thousands of Europeans have already seen it.  Awkward.  We’re sorry.  Look, things have been stressful at work and sometimes we just forget who we’re talking to.  How ’bout this, Friday we’ll go for dinner and catch a movie, just us?

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Grim and Frostbitten Norway Warms Up To Cthulhu

THE Xth WT OS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in Oslo, Norway will be showing CCoC. That’s pretty much all we can tell you as the site is in Norwegian.

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