Black Goat Won’t Be First

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, 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

The Great Black Goat T-Shirt Giveaway Hath Begun!

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, 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 To Open For Troll Hunter

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, 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

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, 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

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, 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

After Months of Searching I Finally Found My Remake Project

Filed under: Coming Soon, Production, Uncategorized, horror, hp lovecraft, in production, Joseph Nanni, short film

Who Likes Short Shorts?

Festivals, that’s who. Elder Sign, specifically. We are proud to announce the our film will appear in nine festivals this fall. We don’t have time slots for all fests but we will update as information becomes available. In the meantime, try and check out a festival and support you local genre films!

- Fantastic Fest, Friday, September 25, at 11:59 PM, and Wednesday, September 30, at 9:30 PM. Both screenings are with Jake West’s “Doghouse”

- ShockerFest International Film Festival, Saturday, September 26, at 12:30 PM

- The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and Cthulhu Con, October 2, 3, 4, 2009, Hollywood Theatre, Portland Oregon

- The Eerie Horror Fest, October 8 to 11

- The International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival, October 15 to 18

- The Terror Film Festival, Friday, October 23, at 1:30 PM

- The Sacramento Horror Film Festival, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25TH, at 3 PM

- The Spooky Movie 2009, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, CINEMA ARTS THEATRE (FAIRFAX), 12:30 PM

- The Horror UK 28 Hours Later Halloween Film Festival, Saturday, October 31, at 6:20 PM

Filed under: Elder Sign, Festivals, abdul alhazred, al azif, call of cthulhu, Elder Sign, fishmen, flying polyps, great race of yith, horror, hp lovecraft, hp lovecraft film festival, innsmouth, Joseph Nanni, old ones, short film

The LNN Interview

The good people at the Lovecraft News Network interviewed me HERE! All I can say is of all the news networks out there, LNN is the most fair and balanced. What is the LNN, you ask? Well they are this:

What is the LNN?

• Do you have a preternatural interest in cephalopods?
• Do you ever lay awake at night dreaming of ways to introduce the word “cyclopean” into everyday speech?
• Have you ever looked up 47° 9′ 0″ S, 126° 43′ 0″ W on Google Maps?
• Do you know what the Cup of the Ptolemies was carven out of?
• Do you know that the most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then you are probably just like us here at theLovecraft News Network. Forget earthly politics, celebrities, and hope. This is your source for news that really matters. Enjoy!

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Ride The Dragon*Con!

Throw your horns in the air, wave ‘em around like you just don’t care.  Elder Sign has been offically selected to screen during Dragon*Con in the dirty ATLA between September 4 and 7.  If you’re down on a hardcore genre tip or like to trick out your moma’s wig for some cosplay then this con better be in yo’ PDA.

Filed under: Elder Sign, Festivals, call of cthulhu, comedy, dragon con, Elder Sign, flying polyps, great race of yith, horror, hp lovecraft, hp lovecraft film festival, innsmouth, Joseph Nanni, old ones, short film, yog sothoth

We’re In Fantasia . . . The Film Festival!

Fantasia is the name of a lot of things.  It is also the name of North America’s premire genre festival – their website says so.  And we are very excited to announce that Elder Sign will be having its North American big screen premire at this year’s show.  The work that shows at Fantasia is the very kind of stuff that inspires us to make shorts like Elder Sign, and plus I was born in Montreal.  We’ll get back to you with the dates.

Joseph Nanni

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