Films
These films will be screening at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival blocks in Providence, RI, Aug 17-20th, 2017.
Short Films
Films at this event
A message of cosmic importance from a small New England college library...
A dedicated IT-guy must stop a computer virus from spreading, unaware of the cosmic horrors he is about to release.
A pair of skeptical Scientists attempt to bridge the gap between science and religion. A successful attempt at talking to the damned leaves them with unexpected results.
In this music video concerning H. P. Lovecraft, from Andrew Delaney & The Horse You Rode In On, a man's visit to the aquarium takes a turn for the Weird.
A love story between two men and a sentient planet. What happens when an artist's relationship with his muse is threatened by an entity beyond the void of space? A short film based on the original story by H.P. Lovecraft.
A sci-fi horror film based on the story by Stephen King. A first person POV perspective allows the audience to get inside the head of an astronaut trapped in a spaceship, as a strange virus grows inside him, altering his mind. To save himself he must take drastic action.
A man delves deep into his late father's last investigation, uncovering secrets humankind was not meant to know.
Sinister secrets await as Mary helps her girlfriend Marsha escape from her parent's gothic mansion, one dark and eldritch night. This hand drawn and digitally animated 'one shot' film takes us on a Lovecraftian escapade through the Manor of Madness. Our goal with this film was to combine the creeping horror of H. P. Lovecraft with the wacky action of classic Saturday morning cartoons.
Sound From the Deep is a voyage to the unknown, inspired by the stories of H. P. Lovecraft. A research group searches for oil in the Arctic Ocean, but they find much much more at the bottom of the deep, dark ocean. Could it be the remnants of a long-forgotten city?
A macabre little comedy set in a Pulp-Noir world of dames, booze, and cosmic horrors that lurk in the shadows.
A woman and a young boy, who both suffered bone cancer, attempt to survive in a world that has been altered by a strange ancient 'song' emitted from earth. The song has cured their cancer, but has had strange effect on all other animal life.
A meteorite, strange vegetation, a colour: an experimental take on H.P. Lovecraft's spiral into madness, shot with a vintage camera on truly unique LomoChrome 16mm film. This is a beautiful exercise in the surreal.
On the east coast of England, a coastal erosion researcher, L, is exploring a lonely part of the beach. Her research site takes on a sinister tone when she meets two young women, Sasha and Jo. They take her on a journey to a strange house not too far away with an even stranger inhabitant, but when L tries to uncover more of the mystery, things go very wrong. Produced under Film London's "London Calling" funding scheme.
In an enchanted land, there is a mysterious lake. This land is Mnar, and once upon a time, on the banks of this strange lake, were the cities of Sarnath and Ib. But Sarnath and Ib are no more...The story of their passage into memory and history is one of prejudice, hatred, and wrath. Of xenophobic, over-zealous fervour, of Eldritch magics, and the harsh ways of strange gods. This is the story of the doom that came to Sarnath.
Pushing the boundaries of paranormal science, Professor Tillinghast leads a top secret project to capture and study interdimensional creatures. But scientific curiosity quickly turns to terror when the scientists try to trap a mysterious being with power beyond their understanding.
The power fails in the city. What ensues in the wake is an incisive tête-à-tête between two stranded strangers. They grapple with the dilemma of an increasingly intimate encounter: how much does one really want to know about the other, and what precisely is one inclined to reveal? Inspired by an H.P. Lovecraft short story (but we're not going to tell you which one!).
Jonathan seeks revenge for his older brother's murder at the hands of a cult. Will Jonathan’s path lead him to righteousness or will his lust for revenge consume him whole?
A man wakes up, he goes to work, he eats in, he does a bit of home surgery, he drives to the woods. Told without words and loosely inspired by the tale by Hans Christian Andersen, 'The Sunken Convent' is a grotesque and slightly surreal story of bad habits.
H. P. Lovecraft meets Kraftwerk! Inspired by the H.P. Lovecraft story “The Music of Erich Zann“, Wattmarck follows German inventor and musician Karin Steckheim as she reassembles her band “Wattmarck“ for a final concert - to present a mysterious new synthesizer and the enigmatic sound it produces. Long time friend and musician, Anton Gsellmann, can’t simply forgive her that she sacrificed the band in order to research an apparently impossible sound, but curiosity drives him back to the factory – and the burning question: “What if she really discovered it?” Wattmarck tells its story on several layers, mixing documentary techniques with audio components, film-within-a-film as well as a hyper stylized filmic reality. This creates a dense atmosphere and an alternate history of electronic music, opening up a world that is expanded upon on the films website through videos, documents and pieces of audio.