Schedule

This year, ​due to the ongoing global health crisis, the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival is streaming right into your home. Every Single Day ticket and 4-day Pass gives you access to that day's programming, from it's launch time, through the end of the festival. Streams will begin on a rolling schedule with matinees becoming available at 1:00 pm and evening shows at 6:00 pm. They will remain available until Monday 10/5 at 6 pm. If you want to catch the Live Filmmaker Q&As, you can follow the schedule below.

  • Wed, Sep 30: VIP Event at the Drive-In, 7-10pm (for backers at VIP Kickstarter levels - we'll contact you with details).
  • Thu, Oct 1: 6:00-10:00pm
  • Fri, Oct 2: 1:00pm - 11:00pm
  • Sat, Oct 3: 1:00pm - 11:00pm
  • Sun, Oct 4: 1:00pm - 11:00pm

STAY TUNED FOR THE FINAL SCHEDULE or join our announcement list HERE, and we'll let you know when everything is finalized.

TIMES SHOWN BELOW ARE IN PACIFIC TIME ZONE (even you set your time zone in your settings)

Thu, Oct 1 2020
10:00am Shop the Virtual Mall of Cthulhu! (General)
6:00pm Shorts Block 1 (Film)
  • Antique
  • U14
  • The Fish-Man Cometh!
  • The Long Walk Back
  • Clout
  • Mare
  • Let Me Go
8:00pm Live Filmmaker Q&A - Shorts 1 (Live Event)
8:30pm Feature Presentation: The Return (Film)
  • The Return
9:00pm Ken Hite Explains the Cthulhu Mythos (General)
  • Kenneth Hite
10:00pm Live Filmmaker Q&A - The Return (Live Event)
Fri, Oct 2 2020
10:00am Shop the Virtual Mall of Cthulhu! (General)
10:00am Victor LaValle Author Spotlight (General)
  • Victor LaValle
10:00am Panel: Herbert West as Cultural Icon (Panel Discussion)
  • Peter Rawlik
  • K.L. Young
  • Molly Tanzer
  • Christine Morgan
  • Kenneth Hite
10:00am Panel: Lovecraftian Cinema (Panel Discussion)
  • Barbara Crampton
  • Jeffrey Combs
  • Richard Stanley
  • Huan Vu
  • Jan Roth
11:30am Panel: Wonder vs. Dread: Encountering the Gods in Fiction and Real life (Panel Discussion)
  • Evan J. Peterson
  • Amanda Downum
  • Justin C. Key
  • Rose O'Keefe
  • Zin E. Rocklyn
  • Craig Laurance Gidney
1:00pm Shorts Block 2 (Film)
  • BATS - "The Call of Cthulhu"
  • The Galls
  • Back Forty
  • Black Moon
  • Sahalax '66
  • It Can Walk!
  • Beyond
  • Herman
1:00pm 25th Anniversary screening Castle Freak & Q&A w/Barbara Crampton & Jeffrey Combs (Film)
  • Castle Freak w/Barbara Crampton & Jeffrey Combs
  • Barbara Crampton
  • Jeffrey Combs
2:45pm Live Filmmaker Q&A - Shorts 2 (Live Event)
3:00pm Feature Presentation: Nina of the Woods (Film)
  • Nina of the Woods
4:30pm Live Filmmaker Q&A - NIna of the Woods (Live Event)
5:30pm Ask Lovecraft - Live! (Live Event)
  • Leeman Kessler
7:00pm Shorts Block 3 (Film)
  • The Lesser Key Of Solomon
  • Oak
  • Getaway
  • Gilman Gin
  • Mr Clean
  • secluse
  • Cultured
  • The Door at the Edge of Reality
  • Exit
8:45pm Live Filmmaker Q&A - Shorts 3 (Live Event)
9:00pm Feature Presentation: H. P. Lovecraft's The Deep Ones (Film)
  • H. P. Lovecraft's The Deep Ones
10:30pm Live Filmmaker Q&A - The Deep Ones (Live Event)
Sat, Oct 3 2020
10:00am Shop the Virtual Mall of Cthulhu! (General)
10:00am Panel: Eldritch Evolution- the future of cosmic horror (Panel Discussion)
  • Victor LaValle
  • Cassandra Khaw
  • Zin E. Rocklyn
  • Craig Laurance Gidney
  • Ross E. Lockhart
10:30am The True Limits of Horror (presentation) (General)
  • Jess Gulbranson
11:00am Anya Martin author reading (Author Reading)
  • Anya Martin
11:30am Panel: Summoning the Music of the Spheres (Panel Discussion)
  • MARS HOMEWORLD
  • Will Severin
  • Reber Clark
  • Troy Sterling Nies
1:00pm Feature Presentation: Await The Dawn (Film)
  • Await the Dawn
1:00pm Shorts Block 4 (Film)
  • Rood
  • The Internet Kills
  • Magic Hour
  • Stairs
  • Smiles
  • Good Head
2:15pm Live Filmmaker Q&A - Shorts 4 (Live Event)
3:00pm Lovecraft Under the Gun 72 Hour Film Contest screening (Shorts 5) (Film)
3:00pm Nathan Carson Author Reading (Author Reading)
  • Nathan Carson
3:00pm Evan J. Peterson author reading (Author Reading)
  • Evan J. Peterson
4:15pm Live Filmmaker Q&A - Lovecraft Under the Gun (Shorts 5) (Live Event)
5:30pm The Fall of Delta Green LIVE! (Live Event)
  • Ariel Celeste (she/her)
  • Adam Scott Glancy
  • Andrew Leman
  • Andrew Migliore
  • Sean Branney
  • Kenneth Hite
6:00pm Necronomidol Concert (Live Event)
  • Necronomidol
7:00pm Shorts Block 6 (Film)
  • Clearwater
  • Bad Seed
  • We Said Forever
  • Circle of Stone
  • Ashore
  • PHX
  • The Instrument
8:45pm Live Filmmaker Q&A - Shorts 6 (Live Event)
9:00pm Feature Presentation: The Hill and the Hole (Film)
  • The Hill and The Hole
10:30pm Live Filmmaker Q&A - The Hill and The Hole (Live Event)
Sun, Oct 4 2020
10:00am Shop the Virtual Mall of Cthulhu! (General)
10:00am Panel: How To Read Lovecraft When Black Lives Matter (Panel Discussion)
  • Leslie S. Klinger
  • Sheree Renée Thomas
  • Danielle Trussoni
  • Nisi Shawl
11:00am Richard Stanley reads Machen and Lovecraft (Author Reading)
  • Richard Stanley
11:30am Voluminous! Live with the HPLHS (Live Event)
  • Andrew Leman
  • Sean Branney
11:50am Cthulhu Prayer Breakfast Sermon (Live Event)
  • Cody Goodfellow
1:00pm Feature Presentation: Eerie Fairy Tales (Film)
  • Eerie Fairy Tales
1:00pm Cody Goodfellow Author Reading (Author Reading)
  • Cody Goodfellow
2:30pm Filmmaker Q&A - Eerie Fairy Tales (Live Event)
3:00pm Shorts Block 7 (Film)
  • The Black Tome of Alsophocus
  • Hatchlings
  • The Horror on Tape
  • Be Careful What You Say
  • There's Someone in the Garden
  • The Man Who Became Everything
  • Viscous
  • Le Linceul (The Shroud)
4:45pm Live Filmmaker Q&A - Shorts 7 (Live Event)
5:30pm Tribute to Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (Live Event)
  • Mike Davis
  • K.L. Young
  • Michael Griffin
  • S. P. Miskowski
6:30pm Shorts Block 8 (Film)
  • Starspawn: Overture
  • Snake Dick
  • Exist!
  • The Chrysalis
  • The Appointment
7:40pm Live Filmmaker Q&A - Shorts 8 (Live Event)
8:00pm Feature Presentation: Intersect (Film)
  • Intersect
10:00pm Cthulhu Girl's Shorts of Madness (Film)
  • Wally And His Hideously Malformed Wart
  • Mushi 虫
  • The Unicorn God
  • Reanimated
  • Washed
  • At the Mountains of Madness
  • Faust
10:00pm Live Filmmaker Q&A - Intersect (Live Event)
11:30pm Live Filmmaker Q&A - Cthulhu Girl's Shorts of Madness! (Shorts 9) (Live Event)
Wed, Oct 21 2020
6:30pm Awards Presentation! (video) (Live Event)