Hammer and Del Toro Frankenstein Films; 'Bad Apps' News

This is going to be a short post because I had a family reunion going over the weekend and so have had to really squeeze in my writing time in bits and pieces. "Bad Apps", my upcoming book of short stories has been keeping me busier than ever, especially since I'm coming to the completion of the book. So, I've been having to keep the blog posts down to one a month, with the exception of the Insecure Writer's Support Group blog hop, in which the next one is coming this Wednesday, October the first. Yes, we will be into the Halloween season in only a couple of days! And to start it off, there will be a re-release of a classic Frankenstein film which will be followed by a new Frankenstein film the following month! I'll talk about those in this post. I also have a little bit of an update for "Bad Apps", so keep reading!

Movie poster for "The Curse of Frankenstein"

Credit: Wikimedia Commons

4K Version of Classic Hammer Frankenstein Film Releasing

In 1957 England's Hammer Studios released its first Frankenstein film, "The Curse of Frankenstein", directed by Terrence Fisher. It starred Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein and Christopher Lee as the Monster. According to Hammer's official website, it was not only the studios' first horror film shot in colour but the first colour-horror film in all of Brittain. The website also states that the colourising of the movie brought disturbing realism to cinematic violence. Hammer will be bringing back this disturbing realism with its release of a 4K restored version of the film on October 1 when it will premiere in theatres throughout the UK! Sadly, it doesn't look like it will be coming to US theatres, at least not anytime soon. However, it will be releasing on Blu-Ray October 14 in the US, one day after the UK's disc release. The 4K disc edition will be a limited run.

The plot to "The Curse of Frankenstein": Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus", Baron Victor Frankenstein creates a living, deformed, being from the parts of human corpses. Victor's creation soon becomes a killer on the rampage. The story is told through the point of view of Frankenstein just before his execution.

Guillermo Del Toro Frankenstein Film Releasing in November

A little over a month after "The Curse of Frankenstein" 4K releases, a brand new Frankenstein film will make its premiere on streaming television. Guillermo Del Toro's "Frankenstein" releases on Netflix on November 7! Although never officially released in theatres, it had its big-screen debut at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival back in August. For a list of other film festivals where the movie will be shown, check out IMDB's release page. Del Toro's "Frankenstein" stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi as the Monster, and Mia Goth as Elizabeth.

'Bad Apps' Book Progress

Currently, I finished typing in a round of revisions in the introduction to "Bad Apps". I'll be doing a second round of revisions this week for sentence and paragraph structure. I should have the introduction completely revised by the end of the week. From there, I'll get the book formatted and then release it as a beta. I'm aiming to release the beta version by mid October. In the last couple of weeks, some people have shown interest in volunteering as beta readers for "Bad Apps". However, more are needed. So, if anyone is interested in beta reading, please contact me at my email address, sarellanorose@gmail.com. For details about volunteering as a beta reader, please see my post from July 24, 2022. There you'll also find out about the benefits and rewards for volunteering!

I wanted to put out a newsletter for September, but it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to get one ready in time. So, I'm going to have to merge the content that I've been preparing for the September edition with the October/Halloween one. So, look out for that next month in your in-boxes. If you are not subscribed to my free newsletter, you can do so here. In the October issue, you'll get a sneak peak and behind the scenes look at my final story that I completed for "Bad Apps"!

Join me here Wednesday for another Insecure Writer's Support Group monthly blog hop! Would you purchase "The Curse of Frankenstein" 4K on disc? What do you think of a Frankenstein movie made by Guillermo Del Toro?

Until next time . . .

Book-To-Movie: Stephen King’s 'The Raft'

Credit: Pixabay.com It's the third Saturday of the month and so that means it's time for another Book-To-Movie ! In a Book-To-Movie we review a book and its movie adaptation. One of the reasons I as a horror fan don’t read a lot of Stephen King’s work is because most of it consists of novels that go more than 400 pages. I have a short attention span when it comes to reading, ironically since I consider myself an avid reader, and so I normally won’t read a work that is much more than the equivalent to a 350-page mass market paperback. The other reason why I don’t read a lot of King’s work is that, as literary scholars will tell you, a lot of his writing is poor. However, he does have some good writing in his works, especially his earlier stuff, including his short horror tales. So if I read anything by Stephen King it’s usually his short stories or novellas. One of his collections I’ve read is Skeleton Crew which includes some of his good, or at least...

Book-To-Movie: ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’

Credit: Wikimedia Commons I apologise for posting outside our regular post-day which is late Saturday night/early Sunday morning. However, I got behind on several things last week and so had to postpone the post to today. I’ve been a reader of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books ever since I was 11. What I’ve always liked so much about the series is that, like a good horror story, the stories often take place in dark settings and involve bizarre cases. Conan Doyle’s novel, “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, definitely contains these elements. It’s a detective story that crosses over into the gothic horror genre. Several movie adaptations of the novel have been made that go as far back as a 1915 German silent film. In 1959 Hammer Studios released a version starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. As much as I’m a fan of the Hammer horror films, I have not seen that one yet. The only one that I’ve seen so far is the 1939 adaptation starring that other big name in classic...

The Top 5 Book-To-Movie Reviews of 2022

Credit: Pixabay.com Happy New Fear everybody! (Of course, I really mean New Year. I’m a horror writer, so what do you expect?) If you read my Facebook post the other night, you can see that 2022 kind of ended badly for A Far Out Fantastic Site. As I said in the post, our monthly Book-To-Movie reviews have run late into the following month. Well, this is the first time in the series' history, that a Book-To-Movie (BTM) has actually run late into the following year. So, this blog post was originally supposed to be an end-of-year one but the internet in my area went down due to a big New Year's Eve storm. It didn’t go back up until last night. So, consider this post a New Year one even thought we’re going to look back on some BTMs of 2022. In a Book-To-Movie, we review a work of prose fiction and its movie adaptation. However, because this year is just starting, and our BTM was supposed to occur on the last Saturday of December at the latest, and I don’t have a movie ada...

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