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From pet shoggoths to basement-dwelling ghosts, HBOs Lovecraft Country doesnt skimp on delivering quality supernatural monsters. In an exclusive, behind-the-scenes glimpse at the Season 1 home release (on sale tomorrow), you can find out how the visual effects crew incorporated the CGI beasties into the live-action series that blends the dark underbelly of American history with madness-inducing cosmic terrors of H.P. Lovecraft. "The genre-bending aspect of the show is one of the things tha...

Exclusive: Horrors of Jim Crow Era Discussed in LOVECRAFT COUNTRY Featurette Exclusive: Horrors of Jim Crow Era Discussed in LOVECRAFT COUNTRY Featurette By Josh Millican Lovecraftian horror meets historical fiction in  Lovecraft Country: The Complete First Season, HBO’s suspenseful drama, which will be released on Blu-ray™ and DVD by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on February 16th, 2021. Featuring all 10 episodes from the se...

Written and produced by Misha Green, the series shows how racists react to a group of Black road trippers as they make their way through the small towns of the

HBO's chief content officer Casey Bloys says he is "very hopeful" for the second season of Lovecraft Country.

Based on: “Emma” by Jane Austen, 1815 Verdict: While it doesn’t match “Clueless” for sheer wit and invention, Catton’s delightfully arch adaptation gets a lot of fresh comic mileage out of well-worn material — and benefits, like all “Emma” adaptations, from Austen’s most ingeniously constructed story. — Justin Chang Haley Bennett, left, Glenn Close and Owen Asztalos in the movie “Hillbilly Elegy” on Netflix and the book by J.D. Vance. (Lacey Terrell / Netflix; HarperC...

Lovecraft Country was easily one of the best things about 2020. In fact, the HBO horror series was just nominated for Best TV Drama at the Golden Globes as well as Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series at the SAG Awards. Since the show ended, fans have wondered if there will be [...]

HBO fantasy drama 'Lovecraft Country' premiered last year, and the network are "hopeful" for a second outing.

from the horror novel it was based on, few were quite as disconcerting and genuinely messed up as Topsy and Bopsy, a pair of demonic twins summoned by racist cops to stalk and torment young Diana Freeman across Chicago. It just so happens that io9 has an exclusive look today at how the frightening pair came to be. Advertisement Where the child-hunting monster is depicted as merely an eerie toy in Matt Ruff’s novel, HBO’s Lovecraft Country elevates the concepts behind the character by rei...

Lovecraft Country blends sci-fi, horror, Black cast as the most American of stories Hugh Hart © (Eli Joshua Ade / HBO) Jonathan Majors and Jurnee Smollett in a scene from "Lovecraft Country." "Its one of the most American stories Ive ever seen," Majors says of the series. (Eli Joshua Ade / HBO) Misha Green has spent most of the last five years bringing Black stories to the small screen, first as co-creator of runaway slave series "Underground" and more recently as the brains ...

Along with virtual shows, Dazzle Denver is helping out local musicians through a food pantry. Author: Gary Shapiro Updated: 8:41 AM MST February 8, 2021 DENVER — At Dazzle Jazz & Blues Club, the stage was suddenly empty. When COVID-19 shut it down last year, the club, considered the heart and soul of jazz music in Denver, was silent. Until it wasnt. Like a lot of other places, Dazzle started producing virtual shows on social media channels. Unlike most places, ...