H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival® & CthulhuCon - Mobile, AL
Join us in beautiful, creepy, and historic Mobile, Alabama as we bring the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival for the very first time to the South, November 3-5, 2023 at the beautiful 1927 Saenger Theatre, the Holiday Inn in Mobile's historic downtown, and at The Haunted Book Shop. Three days of books, gaming, guests, and, of course, short and feature films of cosmic horror, the Weird tale, and the uncanny. Join our low-volume announcements list here to stay in the loop, and/or join our official Facebook event here.
Feature Films
Short Films
Dennis Paoli guest of honor at HPLFF Mobile, AL, November 3-5
Dennis Paoli, the screenwriter of landmark films based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft like Re-Animator, From Beyond, and Castle Freak, as well as horror classics like Ghoulies 2 and Body Snatchers, is the Guest of Honor at the inaugural H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Mobile, AL, November 3-5th, where he'll present his newest film Suitable Flesh, based on H. P. Lovecraft's "The Thing on The Doorstep." In the wake of the Writer's Guild of America union strike, which saw new union contracts finally successfully negotiated after a heroic 148 days on the picket line, we're thrilled to host the writer of all of our favorite movies. Dennis worked hand in hand with director Stuart Gordon to bring Lovecraftian visions to life, and audience members who get to see Suitable Flesh will have serious resonator flashbacks to these classic works, largely due to Dennis's script, as well as the loving work of director Joe Lynch and producers Barbara Crampton (Dr. Catherine McMichaels in From Beyond) and Brian Yuzna (the Re-Animator series). This film is a serious homage to the erotic horror that many of us young Lovecraft fans in the 80s cut our teeth on.
The H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival will take place November 3-5 at the Holiday Inn in Mobile's historic downtown, with literary events at the Haunted Book Shop and evening film showcases at the Saenger Theatre. Get your discounted early bird HPLFF Mobile tickets before October 27th and come meet the man responsible for "Cat dead. Details later."
Book your room for Mobile, AL, November 3-5th!
Traveling to Mobile, AL for our newest H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival® & CthulhuCon™ event?
Our host hotel, The Holiday Inn Mobile/Downtown Historic District is also CthulhuCon HQ for the festival! The Mall of Cthulhu vendor room, Panel Discussions, Author Readings, Gaming, and other live interactive activities will be held here. It is a short 3 min walk (2 blocks) from the Saenger Theatre where Friday and Saturday film events will take place.
You can book your room at our discounted group rate of $125/night + taxes for single (1 bed) or double (2 beds) from now until October 20, 2023.
Reserve online: HPLFF Guest Group Block Online Booking Link
Or call to reserve: 1-888-465-4329 and the Courtesy Group Block Code is LFF. Be sure to give them this code to get our group rate!
To see all the amenities the hotel has to offer, visit the Holiday Inn Mobile Downtown website.
SUITABLE FLESH premiering at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival
SUITABLE FLESH directed by Joe Lynch, adapted by Dennis Paoli (screenwriter of RE-ANIMATOR and FROM BEYOND) from Lovecraft’s story “The Thing on The Doorstep”, starring Barbara Crampton and Heather Graham, will be making it’s Providence, RI premiere at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival at the Columbus Theatre, August 18-20 (GET TICKETS HERE), and its Pacific Northwest premiere at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, OR on October 6-8, AND playing the new HPLFF in Mobile, AL on November 3-5! How’s that for a series of premieres for this NEW CLASSIC!
This film feels like an old-school Stuart Gordon film, due in large part to the screenplay by Dennis Paoli, but has a beautiful neo-noir atmosphere courtesy of director Joe Lynch and cinematographer David Matthews. Lovingly shepherded by producer Barbara Crampton (who starred in several of Stuart Gordon’s Lovecraft films), this is a love letter to Lovecraft fans who long for the kind of sexy horror most of us cut our teeth on. It takes Lovecraft’s story, flips the script so that Upton and Derby are women, and ratchets up the potential of the tale to erotic, sinister, and frankly insane heights.
In the film, successful psychiatrist Elizabeth Derby (Heather Graham) has brutally murdered her young patient Asa Waite (Judah Lewis). Locked up in a psych ward, she recounts to her friend Dr. Daniella Upton (Barbara Crampton) an insane, obsessive tale of erotic attraction, out-of-body experiences, ancient curses, grisly deaths and unspeakable evil. The things Elizabeth has felt, seen and done have destroyed her marriage, ruined her reputation, left bodies in her wake, and led her to a ‘kill or be killed’ desperation. If Daniella doesn’t believe her now, more deaths will follow, and Elizabeth will be forever lost. But who would believe such a mind-bending story? And worse, if it is all true, who will be left to tell it?
Barbara Crampton as Dr. Upton comforts Heather Graham’s Elizabeth Derby in the psych ward.
Get Tickets to the Providence event, August 18-20th.