Famous Monsters of Filmland

H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival®

and CthulhuCon

The only festival that understands.

The Shunned Shorts and other Lovecraftian Treats

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A comedy/horror short about an H.P. Lovecraft fan boy who buys a book online that he thinks will help him summon a real Cthulhu monster.

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Artist Mike Dubisch engages in quick sketching magic for the split screen camera. Shot in one take, with music courtesy of Mars.

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A punk girl, Alyce, travels through a David Lynch/Maya Deren adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft short story. She travels through a strange land with stranger inhabitants to find a mysterious violin player who holds too many secrets for this new world.

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Night falls, shadows creep out, and the time has come for little Timmy to go to bed. But can he brave the ominous gaze of his closet door?

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The Black Pharaoh runs amok, accompanied by a bristling score of Swedish Death Metal. Footage cut from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's The Whisperer in Darkness is reborn in the hands of the HPLHS' Mike Dalager.

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What happens when you insist on using your phone in the theater? Noisy clowns will find you!

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Sidney Sanders is a is a man with a new piano and a loving wife, but an other worldly melody pulls him into a bizarre but strangely familiar world.

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Artist Mike Dubisch engages in quick sketching magic for the split screen camera. Shot in one take, with music courtesy of Mars.

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Peerless science student Walter Gilman meets his match in Eve Walpurgis and promptly falls in love. But when Eve is taken by an extra dimensional terror, Walter is forced to summon a demon of his own: the anachronistic Doctor Glamour! An outrageous sci-fi musical comedy with psychedelic special effects, sexy sharp humor and a slew of hard hitting rock numbers.

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A homeless mime, down on his luck, discovers a secret from his past that gives his talents a disturbing and supernatural twist.

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This short, starring Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, and David Warner was to be part of the horror anthology Pulse Pounders, which never saw the light of day. After decades of languishing in the vault, attendees of the Portland festival will be blessed with a unique look at this forgotten gem, courtesy of Full Moon Horror and Charles Band.

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Abigail Thelma wishes desperately to speak to her dead father from the world of the living. She begins a journey to seek out a fortune telling gypsy with disastrous consequences.

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GAMMA is a story of urban regeneration in a nuclear irradiated future. GAMMA, a new urban developer proposes to regenerate the cities back into civilisation. GAMMA sets out to stabilise the atomic mistakes of yesteryear for the re-inhabitation of future generations. Using its patented "Nuke-Root" technology; part fungi, part mollusk, GAMMA intends to soak up the radiation and remove it from the irradiated cities, rebuilding them in the process. Read more

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Cosmic imagery abounds in this piece set to the music of Ray Noble and his orchestra in honor of the 75th anniversary of the passing of H.P. Lovecraft.

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A man is visited in his dreams by terrifying creatures. A short adaptation of H P Lovecraft's poem, with stop-motion animated monsters.

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The story of Ken, who responds to an ad for a mail-order bride. He didn't expect that some assembly was required.

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An adaptation of H P Lovecraft's famous sci-fi story. The hero, an academic from Miskatonic University, Arkham, gradually goes mad as he starts to realize that his mind and body was kidnapped during a span of several years, and used by a strange alien race known as the Yith…

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A barbershop quartet fears their moment out of the spotlight.(Shown in 3D!)

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It was only a matter of time before mutant bugs from space invaded Portland, Oregon killing everything in their wake. A young woman rushes home to warn her husband. Will she get there in time?

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An out-of-work father undergoes an experimental treatment to take care of his baby…with strange results.

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An adaptation of the legendary writer H.P. Lovecraft's story by the same name which follows a young academic searching for the legend of the infamous snake god, Yig, but who finds a story more disturbing than anything she ever could have imagined.

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A young boy discovers a corpse while biking in the woods, then faces unexpected and macabre consequences when he tries to bury it. Read more

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While studying the ecosystem of a lake, an ambitious science student discovers a strange and sinister artifact. Fascinated by it, he shows it to his professor, who immediately recognizes it as something dangerous. When the professor attempts to destroy the artifact, the student takes it and flees, studying it on his own. When it is stolen from him by a mysterious figure, the student must confront the horrifying nature of the artifact.

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Engulfed by dark thoughts, she is forced into a tunnel to confront the creature who is waiting for her in the dark.

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When moving into an old flat Katja and Andreas discover a mysterious old Chest left by the previous tenant. Soon Katja discovers what really is inside the sinister old circus prop—and becomes another victim of Vadim…

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