.Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality..
-Edgar Allan Poe
Relativity Media invites you to remember the life of Edgar Allan Poe. October 7th, 2011 marks the 162nd anniversary of macabre-master Edgar Allan Poe.s untimely and mysterious death. To celebrate Poe.s life, and support Relativity Media.s upcoming theatrical release of The Raven on March 9, 2012, please see background information on the film, along with little-known facts about Poe.s life and a compendium of his works. The highly-anticipated gritty thriller directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) stars John Cusack (Being John Malkovich) in the role of Poe, in addition to Luke Evans (The Three Musketeers), and Alice Eve (Men In Black III ). The Raven.s official trailer will debut tonight on G4.s .Attack of the Show. and will premiere on Apple tomorrow!
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-Edgar Allan Poe
Relativity Media invites you to remember the life of Edgar Allan Poe. October 7th, 2011 marks the 162nd anniversary of macabre-master Edgar Allan Poe.s untimely and mysterious death. To celebrate Poe.s life, and support Relativity Media.s upcoming theatrical release of The Raven on March 9, 2012, please see background information on the film, along with little-known facts about Poe.s life and a compendium of his works. The highly-anticipated gritty thriller directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) stars John Cusack (Being John Malkovich) in the role of Poe, in addition to Luke Evans (The Three Musketeers), and Alice Eve (Men In Black III ). The Raven.s official trailer will debut tonight on G4.s .Attack of the Show. and will premiere on Apple tomorrow!
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- 10/6/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The 2011 Bram Stoker International Film Festival, running October 28th-31st, takes place in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, and shows independent narrative features, documentaries, and shorts from around the world, many of which will be having their world or UK premieres at this year's fest. Read on for all the details regarding the lineup!
Below is a list of all the films screening this year. Other events include a Vampire Ball on Saturday, October 29th; a performance of The Feast of Blood on Sunday, October 30th; and the Scorpius Dance Theatre's production of A Vampire's Tale on Halloween itself. In addition, the following awards will be presented at the festival:
Best Picture
Best Short
Best Director
Best Effects
Best Script...
...and a special Lifetime Achievement Award
For more info visit the official Bram Stoker International Film Festival website, and click here for ticket packages.
Absentia - UK Premiere
Director: Mike Flanagan...
Below is a list of all the films screening this year. Other events include a Vampire Ball on Saturday, October 29th; a performance of The Feast of Blood on Sunday, October 30th; and the Scorpius Dance Theatre's production of A Vampire's Tale on Halloween itself. In addition, the following awards will be presented at the festival:
Best Picture
Best Short
Best Director
Best Effects
Best Script...
...and a special Lifetime Achievement Award
For more info visit the official Bram Stoker International Film Festival website, and click here for ticket packages.
Absentia - UK Premiere
Director: Mike Flanagan...
- 9/9/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
There are few things we enjoy more here at Dread Central than helping out indie filmmakers, and today we're happy to point our readers in the direction of all three parts of Staci Layne Wilson's short "The Key to Annabel Lee [A Woman in Triptych]". Staci decided to post them online, and of course we have them right here!
Narrating and starring in the film — made up of three segments in all, best described as a cinematic form of installation art — is Nivek Ogre, famous as the lead singer of the industrial rock band Skinny Puppy. Diane Goldner appears as a wolflike seducer in two sections, but the star of the show, as in the Edgar Allan Poe poem, is Annabel Lee herself (played by Cherilyn Wilson, Corrie Shenigo, and Staci Layne Wilson). She is the triptych of the tale, representing the mythological Three Fates through the poetry of motion.
Below you'll find...
Narrating and starring in the film — made up of three segments in all, best described as a cinematic form of installation art — is Nivek Ogre, famous as the lead singer of the industrial rock band Skinny Puppy. Diane Goldner appears as a wolflike seducer in two sections, but the star of the show, as in the Edgar Allan Poe poem, is Annabel Lee herself (played by Cherilyn Wilson, Corrie Shenigo, and Staci Layne Wilson). She is the triptych of the tale, representing the mythological Three Fates through the poetry of motion.
Below you'll find...
- 8/17/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
The trailer for a new Edgar Allan Poe adaptation has just hit online. Writer-director Staci Layne Wilson's short film The Key to Annabel Lee [A Woman in Triptych] looks like a trippy spin on the classic poem by the father of modern horror. Check out the trailer after the jump. Each of the three triptychs of The Key to Annabel Lee will debut at the Famous Monsters of Filmland ImagiMovies Festival in Beverly Hills, California on Saturday April 9 (10:00Pm) before a special screening of Repo! The Genetic Opera. The fourth and final version, "Intergration", will be shown at the Viscera Film Festival on July 17 in Los Angeles. Here's the official...
- 3/16/2011
- FEARnet
Lots of exciting news for Staci Layne Wilson's upcoming short "The Key to Annabel Lee [A Woman in Triptych]" today. Not only is Dread Central home to the exclusive online debut of the film's full trailer, but we also have an update on when and where "Annabel Lee" will be having its premiere.
First things first … here's a quick overview of "The Key to Annabel Lee [A Woman in Triptych]":
Death, and things in threes, are major themes in "The Key to Annabel Lee [A Woman in Triptych]". Narrating and starring in the films (four shorts in all — best described as a cinematic form of installation art) is Nivek Ogre (Repo! The Genetic Opera), famous as the lead singer of the industrial rock band Skinny Puppy. Diane Ayala Goldner (Feast) appears as a wolf-like seducer in two installments of the experimental film, but "the star of the show, as in the poem, is Annabel Lee herself," says Staci. "She is the triptych of the tale,...
First things first … here's a quick overview of "The Key to Annabel Lee [A Woman in Triptych]":
Death, and things in threes, are major themes in "The Key to Annabel Lee [A Woman in Triptych]". Narrating and starring in the films (four shorts in all — best described as a cinematic form of installation art) is Nivek Ogre (Repo! The Genetic Opera), famous as the lead singer of the industrial rock band Skinny Puppy. Diane Ayala Goldner (Feast) appears as a wolf-like seducer in two installments of the experimental film, but "the star of the show, as in the poem, is Annabel Lee herself," says Staci. "She is the triptych of the tale,...
- 3/15/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
We've been talking about Staci Layne Wilson's upcoming short "The Key to Annabel Lee [A Woman in Triptych]" for a while now, and this week marks both the end of principal photography and the opening of the film's official website - on Edgar Allan Poe's birthday no less!
"Interestingly enough," says Wilson, "wrap date was locked in on Poe's birthday [January 19th]. We had some rather remarkable coincidences every date we shot — we commenced on December 8, 2010, which marked the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination (whose song 'Imagine' fits our theme as well) and finished the bulk of our filming on December 15, the day one of my favorite directors and a great inspiration, Jean Rollin, passed away." The director adds, "I also think it's interesting to note that 'Annabel Lee' is the last complete poem composed by Poe, and it's the very first thing I directed."
Death, and things in threes,...
"Interestingly enough," says Wilson, "wrap date was locked in on Poe's birthday [January 19th]. We had some rather remarkable coincidences every date we shot — we commenced on December 8, 2010, which marked the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination (whose song 'Imagine' fits our theme as well) and finished the bulk of our filming on December 15, the day one of my favorite directors and a great inspiration, Jean Rollin, passed away." The director adds, "I also think it's interesting to note that 'Annabel Lee' is the last complete poem composed by Poe, and it's the very first thing I directed."
Death, and things in threes,...
- 1/21/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
One of Shock's horror colleagues, Staci Layne Wilson, has a ton of credits to her name. She's penned books. She's the hostess of a new web series ( This Week in Horror ). Plus, her journalistic cred reaches back before my time. It's about time she cut her teeth on the director's chair, right? You bet. Wilson recently completed a short film called The Key to Annabel Lee , based on the work by Edgar Allan Poe. An official site for this endeavor goes live tomorrow and we've got a sneak peek via three images below. Narrating and starring in the films (four shorts, in all . best-described as a cinematic form of installation art) is Nivek Ogre (Repo! The Genetic Opera), famous as the lead singer of the industrial rock band, Skinny Puppy. Diane Ayala Goldner (Feast) appears as a...
- 1/18/2011
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Sometimes we film journalists and movie-geek scribes refuse to “know our place,” and the siren’s call of the director’s chair is just too strong to ignore. (It’s not a new concept; some of the world’s greatest cinema auteurs started as critics, and even Fango’s own editor-in-chief Chris Alexander has his debut feature Blood Opera in the works). Now the prolific Staci Layne Wilson (pictured left), who has seven published novels, three non-fiction books, and on-camera gigs with SyFy and TV-Wire in her résumé, has taken the leap into film production; her short film The Key To Annabel Lee [A Woman In Triptych], based on the classic work by Edgar Allan Poe, is nearing completion.
- 1/9/2011
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Sean Smithson)
- Fangoria
Staci Layne Wilson's upcoming short film "The Key to Annabel Lee" has, in Staci's words, evolved into a form of "installation art", and to give us a better idea of what to expect, she's provided Dread Central with two new exclusive stills and a quick clip.
The film stars Cherilyn Wilson (Parasomnia), Corrie Shenigo (After You), Diane Ayala Goldner (Feast I, II, III), and Nivek Ogre (Repo! The Genetic Opera) as "The Narrator". It involves an evil seductive wolf character (played by Goldner) and three incarnations of the tragic character of Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee, played by three different actresses (Wilson, Shenigo, and Staci herself). Shot in Southern California on the shores of southern Los Angeles beaches, "The Key to Annabel Lee" uses gorgeous sweeping shots of ocean vistas as a backdrop for much of the action.
You'll see one of those ocean vistas in the clip...
The film stars Cherilyn Wilson (Parasomnia), Corrie Shenigo (After You), Diane Ayala Goldner (Feast I, II, III), and Nivek Ogre (Repo! The Genetic Opera) as "The Narrator". It involves an evil seductive wolf character (played by Goldner) and three incarnations of the tragic character of Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee, played by three different actresses (Wilson, Shenigo, and Staci herself). Shot in Southern California on the shores of southern Los Angeles beaches, "The Key to Annabel Lee" uses gorgeous sweeping shots of ocean vistas as a backdrop for much of the action.
You'll see one of those ocean vistas in the clip...
- 1/5/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
We told you a few weeks ago about Staci Layne Wilson's upcoming short film "The Key to Annabel Lee", and now there's a teaser video online that shows off a little of what you can expect, which Staci has dubbed "the accidental trailer".
The film stars Cherilyn Wilson (Parasomnia), Corrie Shenigo (After You), Diane Ayala Goldner (Feast I, II, III), and Nivek Ogre (Repo! The Genetic Opera) as "The Narrator". It involves an evil seductive wolf character (played by Goldner) and three incarnations of the tragic character of Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee, played by three different actresses (Wilson, Shenigo, and Staci herself). Shot in Southern California on the shores of southern Los Angeles beaches, "The Key to Annabel Lee" uses gorgeous sweeping shots of ocean vistas as a backdrop for much of the action.
Click the below image to see the trailer on the Blue Streak Productions website.
The film stars Cherilyn Wilson (Parasomnia), Corrie Shenigo (After You), Diane Ayala Goldner (Feast I, II, III), and Nivek Ogre (Repo! The Genetic Opera) as "The Narrator". It involves an evil seductive wolf character (played by Goldner) and three incarnations of the tragic character of Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee, played by three different actresses (Wilson, Shenigo, and Staci herself). Shot in Southern California on the shores of southern Los Angeles beaches, "The Key to Annabel Lee" uses gorgeous sweeping shots of ocean vistas as a backdrop for much of the action.
Click the below image to see the trailer on the Blue Streak Productions website.
- 12/29/2010
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
A new short film based on the poem "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe.
Principal photography has wrapped on The Key to Annabel Lee, the directorial debut of film journalist Staci Layne Wilson (who also wrote the script), who has been a key member of the genre journalist faction for years at outlets like Cinefantastique, Syfy.com, and Horror.com.
Like several other new major journalists-turned-filmmakers (Jovanka Vucovick, Stacie Ponder, and Andrew Kasch) Wilson has decided to pick up the reigns and make the kind of film she'd like to see; one with amazing colors, costumes, makeup, emotion, and fantastical tragedy with a touch of the sensual.
The film stars Cherilyn Wilson (Parasomnia), Corrie Shenigo (After You), Diane Ayala Goldner (Feast I, II, III), and Nivek Ogre (Repo! The Genetic Opera) as "The Narrator", sporting a rather awesomely idealized Poe-esque demeanor and costume.
We know the plot involves an...
Principal photography has wrapped on The Key to Annabel Lee, the directorial debut of film journalist Staci Layne Wilson (who also wrote the script), who has been a key member of the genre journalist faction for years at outlets like Cinefantastique, Syfy.com, and Horror.com.
Like several other new major journalists-turned-filmmakers (Jovanka Vucovick, Stacie Ponder, and Andrew Kasch) Wilson has decided to pick up the reigns and make the kind of film she'd like to see; one with amazing colors, costumes, makeup, emotion, and fantastical tragedy with a touch of the sensual.
The film stars Cherilyn Wilson (Parasomnia), Corrie Shenigo (After You), Diane Ayala Goldner (Feast I, II, III), and Nivek Ogre (Repo! The Genetic Opera) as "The Narrator", sporting a rather awesomely idealized Poe-esque demeanor and costume.
We know the plot involves an...
- 12/17/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Edgar Allan Poe fans have been urged to help save the New York home where the writer lived in the 1840s following a shortfall in funding.
The poet moved to a house in Fordham, New York in 1846 after his wife Virginia fell ill with tuberculosis, hoping the country air would help cure her ailment. He wrote several famous works including The Cask of Amontillado and Annabel Lee during his three-year stay at the house, where Virginia sadly died in 1847.
The Poe Cottage is currently undergoing a $1 million (£666,667) restoration, and officials at the Bronx County Historical Society are campaigning to raise money to complete the project and keep the house open for fans and students in the future.
Kathy McAuley, director of the Poe Cottage, tells the New York Daily News, “In order to do our very best, we need to do this. There are so many things we are not able to do because of a small budget. It will let us expand our hours and our programming. And it will take some of the pressure off the historical society to pay the expenses."...
The poet moved to a house in Fordham, New York in 1846 after his wife Virginia fell ill with tuberculosis, hoping the country air would help cure her ailment. He wrote several famous works including The Cask of Amontillado and Annabel Lee during his three-year stay at the house, where Virginia sadly died in 1847.
The Poe Cottage is currently undergoing a $1 million (£666,667) restoration, and officials at the Bronx County Historical Society are campaigning to raise money to complete the project and keep the house open for fans and students in the future.
Kathy McAuley, director of the Poe Cottage, tells the New York Daily News, “In order to do our very best, we need to do this. There are so many things we are not able to do because of a small budget. It will let us expand our hours and our programming. And it will take some of the pressure off the historical society to pay the expenses."...
- 11/3/2010
- WENN
Musician William Beckett strikes a distraught pose in an exclusive photo from the upcoming adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale The Fall of the House of Usher. The film will be the acting debut for the frontman of the popular rock group The Academy Is… He’ll be starring as the film’s Narrator. (A larger version of the above photo can be seen below.)
Connecticut-based filmmaker Nathan Wrann is helming the adaptation, which is currently in pre-production through his company Dalton Gang Productions for a 2011 release. Promotional images and video were shot earlier this month by photographer J. Sibley Law in order to start developing the film’s visual feel. Some of these photos, which are signed by both Beckett and Wrann, are available for purchase on the film’s website.
After directing two contemporary-set films — the horror movie Hunting Season and the deconstructed revenge thriller Burning...
Connecticut-based filmmaker Nathan Wrann is helming the adaptation, which is currently in pre-production through his company Dalton Gang Productions for a 2011 release. Promotional images and video were shot earlier this month by photographer J. Sibley Law in order to start developing the film’s visual feel. Some of these photos, which are signed by both Beckett and Wrann, are available for purchase on the film’s website.
After directing two contemporary-set films — the horror movie Hunting Season and the deconstructed revenge thriller Burning...
- 9/22/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
It takes real courage to tackle the collective works of Edgar Allan Poe in a music project... which would explain why there have been so few takers since the literary icon shuffled off his mortal coil. When I learned melodic hardcore band Alesana had interpreted Poe's works in a rock-opera format for their third studio album The Emptiness, I was skeptical... but that soon gave way to amazement once the album's story unfolded before my eyes and ears. The twisted romantic tragedy – revolving around the characters of "The Artist," his eternal love Annabel (based on the subject of Poe's final poem "Annabel Lee"), and his eerie nemesis "The Thespian" – plays out in song, print and sketches,...
- 4/13/2010
- FEARnet
Comics don’t have to be bad for you, you know. They can be edifying and uplifting, partaking of the greatest glories of the finest books even written. At least, that’s what the purveyors of various adaptations of “the great books” – curiously, nearly all of which were conveniently out of copyright and thus didn’t require any licensing fees – have claimed for the past fifty-some years. I have before me three very different books that all adapt mostly old and out of copyright works for a modern audience, so let’s take a look at what’s going on these days…
Classics Illustrated: The Raven & Other Poems
By Edgar Allan Poe; Illustrated by Gahan Wilson
Nbm/Papercutz, May 2009, $9.95
Classics Illustrated is the longest-running brand-name in the adapting-old-books space, dating back to 1941 (when the line was launched as Classic Comics), and was the educational comic of choice for an entire...
Classics Illustrated: The Raven & Other Poems
By Edgar Allan Poe; Illustrated by Gahan Wilson
Nbm/Papercutz, May 2009, $9.95
Classics Illustrated is the longest-running brand-name in the adapting-old-books space, dating back to 1941 (when the line was launched as Classic Comics), and was the educational comic of choice for an entire...
- 12/7/2009
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
Fango got word on a couple of frightful theatrical experiences on the New York stage this winter. The dark visions of two classically chilling authors, Edgar Allan Poe and Algernon Blackwood, are being brought to life in separate New York productions.
To celebrate the bicentennial of Poe’s birth, the critically acclaimed Radiotheatre is performing an ongoing series entitled Sundays With Poe, currently running through April 26 at 2 p.m. on the last Sunday of each month at Manhattan’s Under St. Mark’s (94 St. Mark’s Place). Each show presents three to four stories by the master essayed by the unique company, which uses traditional storytelling techniques along with music and sound effects to stimulate the audience’s imagination, much like the radio shows of old. Radiotheatre founder and 30-year theater veteran Dan Bianchi enthusiastically tells Fango, “I’ve had a bust of Poe on my shelf for the past 35 years.
To celebrate the bicentennial of Poe’s birth, the critically acclaimed Radiotheatre is performing an ongoing series entitled Sundays With Poe, currently running through April 26 at 2 p.m. on the last Sunday of each month at Manhattan’s Under St. Mark’s (94 St. Mark’s Place). Each show presents three to four stories by the master essayed by the unique company, which uses traditional storytelling techniques along with music and sound effects to stimulate the audience’s imagination, much like the radio shows of old. Radiotheatre founder and 30-year theater veteran Dan Bianchi enthusiastically tells Fango, “I’ve had a bust of Poe on my shelf for the past 35 years.
- 1/28/2009
- Fangoria
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