The 31st Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon is taking place October 2-4, 2026 on all three screens of the historic Hollywood Theatre (& environs).
Join us at the beautiful Hollywood Theatre for the 2026 H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon!
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We'll have updates sometime this summer. In the meantime, here's what happened at the 2025 festival!
More guests include
Feature Films
Short Films
Ticket Sales
Ticket Sales for 2010 Portland, Oregon (Oct 1-2-3)
TICKETS via BoxOfficeTickets.com
You can also purchase the tickets at the door the day of the show.
HPLFF 2010 T-Shirt
Thanks to Lee Moyer and Brian Callahan and an idea from your's truly, we have our 2010 T-Shirt. What does it all mean Elwood?
The End is Nigh!
Yes the rumors are true... I will be retiring (or going on sabbatical for awhile), this October festival will be my last as a director. I have been running this festival for 15 years and am out of sanity points. So what does this mean? Well Aaron Vanek has started a satellite festival in LA which will become an annual event. The Portland event is in limbo until I can find someone to replace me. We may have another satellite festival in Seattle and perhaps Austin. Regardless, I will always remain the founder... and the festival will live on and grow. So let us all celebrate H.P. and have a blast this October. cheers
Final 6 Selected for Screenplay Competition
The judges have narrowed the field of 30 screenplays to the final six for judging in the 2010 screenwriter competition.
- HPL10-0180 Carnacki: The Ghost Finder by Kurt Lustgarten
- HPL10-0175 Immaculate Deception by Bryan Holm
- HPL10-0166 I Am the Doorway by Robin Kasparík
- HPL10-0157 The Whisperer in Darkness by Nicholas Kubik
- HPL10-0134 Kingdom Street by Matt Morgan
- HPL10-0101 Cult Flick by Brian Hauser
Portland Festival Update
As usual we are running a little behind. But have no fear. Tickets should be going up today for sale through boxofficetickets.com (or this weekend). Notifications for final selections for films will be done today! Director Stuart Gordon is attending and also very likely to be seeing the Darkest of the HIllside Thickets. We also are planing to screen The Whole Wide World at least once during the festival. Stay tuned for more news.
Composer Richard Band confirmed for HPLFF-LA
Music composer Richard Band (Re-Animator, From Beyond, others) confirmed attendance to the Los Angeles H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival®.
Tickets and info: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/117721
All directors of films screening will attend HPLFF - Los Angeles
I just received word that Stuart Gordon will be attending the first Los Angeles based H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival®.
That means that all directors of all films will be on hand this evening.
Tickets and info available here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/117721
HPLFF Southern California (LA)
We have the following programming lined up for the southern California show.
Block one (3pm-6pm)
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown 90 mins - CONFIRMED
Cool Air – 50 minutes CONFIRMED
AM 1200 40 mins – CONFIRMED
Block two (7pm-10pm)
Music of Erich Zann – 17 mins - CONFIRMED
Call of Cthulhu (47 minutes) - CONFIRMED
Re-Animator = 86 min-CONFIRMED