Films
Lovecraft has influenced and permeated all aspects of media and popular culture, including film. We will be showing films, hand picked from the archives of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and a few sneak peeks at what's in store for the 20th Anniversary Film Festival in October!
Watch this page for more information on the film programming, shorts blocks, and scheduled times.
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12:15pm to 1:00pm Bellmont B |
Kevin McTurk presents The Mill at Calder's End (Film) Join us for a special presentation of The Mill at Calder's End, the follow up to The Narrative of Victor Karloch, featuring director Kevin McTurk on the making of this epic star-studded, puppet-driven, ghost story.
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9:15pm to 11:00pm Bellmont B |
Late Night Movie (Film) Get your late night movie fix with this wild romp through Lovecraft country. Blood, nudity, and bad language included. Must be 18 years of age or older to attend, or be accompanied by an adult.
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3:00pm to 4:00pm Bellmont B |
Short film block (Film) Preview some of the films already selected to play at the 20th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in October. Seating is limited, and is on a first come, first seated basis, so we recommend getting your seat early.
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Films at this event
A virginal artist falls in love with a call girl who turns out to be the chosen bride of the alien god Cthulhu. To save her, he must stop an ancient cult from summoning their God and destroying mankind. Not for the faint of heart, those fearful of blood, those offended by nudity, or those who prefer that Lovecraft be taken seriously! This is a fun and bloody romp, with a ton of clever references to the Old Gent's work by people who clearly know their Lovecraft... but just don't care if he gets a little sexed up. More tentacles and boobs than you can shake a Necronomicon at. No squares (or minors) will be admitted to this showing. Trigger warning: this film features non-consensual sexual relations with monsters and a bloody birth scene.
Five starships carry the last hope of humanity to a new world, when one of them goes silent. Then, another.
Back in the place of her childhood, in an oddly sinister port city, a young woman plagued with traumatic memories will discover that her destiny is even more cruel than the creatures running after her. LINK
A music video by Roadside Memorial, "Flesh and Bone" is a fusion of 1930's, Lovecraftian Horror, and classic Film Noir.
After a nightmare in which Daniel's wife is being unfaithful, he encounters a strange entity which appears to emanate from her sleeping body.
When a down-on-his-luck blues musicians travels to the country to buy a guitar he suspects was stolen from him many years earlier, he finds that its hoodoo-practicing owner is reluctant to hand over the instrument, and she's got something more on her agenda than a simple sale.'The Case of Evil' is a black and white horror short styled after the great horror classics like 'Frankenstein', 'The Wolf Man', 'The Cat People' and others.
In the remote village of Calder's End stands an old windmill, a repository of dark secrets. Nicholas Grimshaw has returned to this haunted place, his childhood home, intent on breaking a generations-old family curse. Grimshaw's journey takes him deep below the decaying mill, into mysterious, forgotten catacombs, whereupon he confronts the very source of the evil that has corrupted his family.
Using the backdrop of Torrevieja scenery to tell the tale, with its coves and beaches providing a similar scene to Lovecraft's original short story, Spanish artist María Lorenzo Hernández brought the traditional imagery to life in a fusion with the modern world that also seems to reflect the past.