Feature Films and Lovecraft Movies
Feature films showing at Portland 2012 festival
Most people spend their whole lives searching for what makes them happy. Few find it. Even fewer get the chance to share it with friends. Every year hundreds of fans flock to tiny Cross Plains, Texas, the home of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian. Nearly 80 years after his death by suicide, Howard, an outsider himself, has attracted his own merry band of self-admitted outcast followers. We followed the Big 4, the top two Howard scholars from the old guard and two up and comers, through their world of fandom at “Howard Days,” the annual celebration of Howard’s life and works. Read more
Arkham, 1975: Jonathan Davis' father has disappeared. His tracks lead to Germany, to the Swabian-Franconian Forest where he was stationed after the Second World War. Jonathan sets out to find him and bring him home, but deep in the woods he discovers a dark mystery from the past. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short novel "The Colour Out of Space".
Screen legends Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing star as rival turn-of-the-century anthropologists transporting a frozen "missing link" aboard the Trans-Siberian Express. But when the prehistoric creature thaws and escapes, it unleashes a brain-scarfing spree that turns its victims into the eye-bleeding undead. Can the crafty colleagues stop this two million year old monster, hordes of zombie passengers, and a psychotic Cossack officer before terror goes off the rails?
When a father and son become stranded in the wild, they must confront the horrors of their past to escape with their lives. It's In the Blood is an all-together new cinematic movement. At its core a father son story, the film is a deconstruction of the prototypical "creature feature", incorporating elements of mystical realism, and psychological thriller. We call it a Psyche-Saga.
Six years after Earth has discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system, a probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear there and half of Mexico was quarantined as an infected zone. Now the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures". Our story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border. Read more
John Martense has just been released from state prison after serving five years for a crime he didn't commit. John wants to stay as far away from the wrong side of the law as he can… but family ties won't let him. John gets a message to see Knaggs (Vincent Schiavelli), an old friend and undertaker with a taste for larceny. Knaggs gives John a map of a cemetery where a corpse stuffed with a half a million dollars has been buried. Johns father stole the money with his psychotic partner Bennett (Jon Finch) but hid the body, leaving it as a family legacy for his son to dig up. John reluctantly heads to Leffertt's Corners, a small town with a terrible secret. Read more
When a group of tight-knit college friends visit the site of an undisturbed Mayan ruin, they stumble into an ancient trap. An unspoken evil waiting to drag its victims into an endless nightmare. As fear and paranoia eat away at their sanity, their only chance at escape is to commit the unthinkable.
The Skull teams up horror legends Peter Cushing and Chrisopher Lee in a chilling, supernatural tale of murder from beyond the grave. Based on a short story by Robert Bloch, The Skull introduces us to Dr. Christopher Maitland (Cushing), a collector of the occult. When he is given the opportunity to purchase the skull of the infamous Marquis de Sade, he leaps at the chance. What he doesn't know is that his friend, Matthew Phillips (Lee) is the the former owner of the skull—and quite happy to be rid of it. Read more
Celebrated author H.P. Lovecraft’s classic tale of alien horror bursts onto the screen in the style of the classic horror films of the 1930s. Folklore professor Albert Wilmarth investigates legends of strange creatures in the most remote hills of Vermont. His inquiry reveals a terrifying glimpse of the truth that lurks behind the legends. The Whisperer in Darkness returns us to the golden age of movies for a thrilling adventure of supernatural horror. Filmed on location in New England in Mythoscope™ by the H.P. Read more
