![]() ![]() ![]() Hill" in the film and "Major Sir Eric Moreland Clapham-Lee" in the story). Lovecraft's original short story, including Herbert and Dan (who is unnamed in the story) meeting in medical school, Dean Halsey's death and reanimation, and the decapitation and reanimation of an authority figure to the doctors ("Dr. The film loosely adapts the first half of H.P. Yuzna made a distribution deal with Charles Band's Empire Pictures in return for post-production services. The producer liked what he read and convinced Gordon to shoot the film in Hollywood, because of all the special effects involved. Gordon showed Yuzna the script for the pilot and the 12 additional episodes. ![]() ![]() Special effects technician Bob Greenberg, who had worked on John Carpenter's Dark Star, repeatedly told Gordon that the only market for horror was in feature films, and introduced him to producer Brian Yuzna. They were told that the half hour format was not salable and so they made it an hour, writing 13 episodes. They updated it to the present day in Chicago with the intention of using actors from the Organic Theater company. The story was set around the turn of the century, and they soon realized that it would be too expensive to recreate. Originally, Gordon was going to adapt Lovecraft's story for the stage, but eventually decided along with writers Dennis Paoli and William Norris to make it as a half-hour television pilot. ![]()
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