20th Anniversary Festival Kickstarter Launched... and funded!
On Monday, July 6 2015, we launched the "Trip to R'lyeh" Kickstarter campaign for the 20th Anniversary H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, OR. Then, 37 hours later, it was funded. We are thrilled at the outpouring of support! This definitely helps us pay some of our most basic expenses, like theatre rental, but there's still a ways to go to make this the Best Festival Ever! Please share!
If you're coming to the festival, now is your chance to get Exclusive Ticket Packages that contain Miskatonic University Explorers Club T-shirts, lapel pins, and more (or, if you wanna go a little more EEEVIL, your package will include exclusive Cultist T-shirts and lapel pins). We're also offering special Speakeasy VIP Party tickets, where you can enjoy hors d'oeuvres, beverages, and mingle with some of our featured guests in a wonderful 1930s-style speakeasy.
Even if you aren't coming, there are tons of rewards that will take you to R'lyeh, including the Expedition Kit, featuring a 12x18 map of R'lyeh, compiled form aerial surveys of the island, a log book containing sketches from the island by some of our most artistic explorers, like Mike Dubisch, Paul Komoda, Heather Hudson, John Donald Carlucci, Nick gucker, and more, as well as diary entries from the team leader, equipment manifests, and more.
Whether you back the Kickstarter or not, please do one thing for us: share it with your friends through Facebook and Twitter (and anything else you've got going).
Best of the 2014 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival DVD now available on Arkham Bazaar!
Did you miss seeing some of the short films at the 2014 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival? Just want to relive the best moments? Now you can! We collected the best shorts from the 19th Annual festival on this deluxe, limited edition DVD! Available now on Amazon and ArkhamBazaar.com
From music videos to claymation, superheroes to sound waves, and dreams to nightmares, this collection is a witch's brew for a very spooky night. Both adaptations of Lovecraft and original tales inspired by his world, these films even feature his Old Ones, like Azathoth and Nyarlathotep.
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"Black Sugar" dir. Hank Friedmann A group of teenagers experiment with a drug that has side effects like no other.
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"The Celebrant" dir. Brian Lillie An actor and a sound engineer wake up something hidden in the waves.
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"Dread Sign" dir. Thomas Nicol This 2014 festival bumper explains a lot about our cult-like audience.
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"Eyes in The Dark" dir. Alex White An explorer searching for truth discovers a secret beyond human comprehension.
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"I Am Not Samuel Krohm" dir. Sébastien Chantal A man struggles with a case of mistaken identity, while dark forces are in pursuit.
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"Ikelos Below" dir. Thomas Nicol A man is beset by troubling nightmares, but is the danger only in his dreams?
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"No Turning Back" dir. HPLHS Motion Pictures A Rock Opera music video adaptation of Lovecraft's "Dreams in The Witch House."
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"The Somnaphage" dir. Monsieur Soeur Dreaming is more than you think. Made in 72 hours for the Lovecraft Under The Gun competition.
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"There's An Octopus in Your Head" dir. Ari Grabb The pancake master looks for meaning in an uncaring universe.
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"The Void" dir. Eric Schwartz Two young girls look for adventure, but bite off more than they can chew.
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"Vomica" dir. Andy Green During WWII, British commandos unearth ancient evil in a crypt in Occupied France.
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Trailers for Feed The Light (2014 Best Feature), Exile (2014 Audience Choice), and The Dreamlands.
Runtime approximately 120 minutes.
NTSC Region 0, progressive.
March 6, 2015, 7:30 pm at the Hollywood Theatre: Richard Stanley!
The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and The Hollywood Theatre are bringing Richard Stanley to Portland on March 6 (tix at http://bit.ly/OtherworldPDX) to introduce and Q&A a documentary double feature, featuring the US Premiere of The Otherworld, Mr. Stanley's film about the history of magical belief in his home of Montsegur, France, as well as a screening of the acclaimed documentary Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau. If you saw Richard's presentation at the 2013 Festival on the making of "Mother of Toads", which was filmed in Montsegur, you're definitely going to want to see the magical mayhem on show in his latest film! 
CthulhuCon PDX! Limited Edition Ticket Packages now available.
Support the CthulhuCon PDX (April 25-26) fundraiser by purchasing one of our Limited Edition ticket or shirt packages! In lieu of running a Kickstarter, we are selling a limited number of Early Bird ticket packages and shirts ONLY UNTIL FEB 16. Regular Ticket Packages are limited to only 70 (comes with an exlusive T-shirt, work shirt, or hoodie, plus special ticket/badge) and VIP Ticket packages (additionally includes catered VIP guest reception and numbered art print) are limited to only 30.
Even if you can't come, you can still support our fundraiser with your torso, by getting one of our exclusive T-shirts (or a babydoll tee, work shirt, or hoodie). Click here to get your tickets.
Want more horror short films in your October, Portland?
This weekend, Oct 11-12 at the Clinton St. Theater, we're showing a wonderful collection of the best independent horror films from around the world, including several US Premieres, and a whole bunch of Pacific NW Premieres.
Over 30 short films and two Pacific NW Premiere feature-length films await you Saturday and Sunday!
Watch our short YouTube trailer to get a sense of the variety of films we're showing, then buy your tickets on-line (or at the door, Saturday and Sunday):
Best of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival SOLD OUT! Thanks Portland!
Thank you, Portland! The Best of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, held on October 4 at the Hollywood Theater, was a great success! Thanks for coming and watching some amazing films with us. We went way over time and kept a lot of you up past your bedtime, watching films from the early days, like "The Old Man and The Goblins," as well as films selected for next year's 20th Anniversary Festival, including the World Premiere of "Fat Rabbit" from Adam Petke.
If you missed your chance to get the official T-shirt or women's top, you can now get that at our on-line store, Arkham Bazaar.
Best of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland this Saturday!
Join us at the Hollywood Theatre for 4 hours of trailblazing short films from the past 19 years of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival! It's a one night show that will leaver you gibbering in the aisles. Click here to buy your tickets at the Hollywood Theatre Web site or get 'em in person at the Hollywood Theatre box office, anytime between now and then.
Featuring a special presentation of Kevin McTurk's "The Narrative of Victor Karloch," Paul Campion's "Eel Girl," adaptations of "From Beyond" and "The Festival," as well as audience favorites from the 2014 festival, like "Vomica," and a look at new films showing at the 2015 festival.
This is going to be a fun night of Weird movie-watching! Plus, we start the countdown to next year's 20th Anniversary event with special announcements, giveaways, and secret stuff.
Tickets now available for Portland Best of the HPLFF on Oct. 4th!
Tickets are now available for the ONE NIGHT ONLY Best of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival event. Seating is very limited, since we will only be using the downstairs auditorium at the Hollywood Theatre, so don't wait to buy tickets!
Best of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival
October 4, 2014 at the Hollywood Theatre
CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS
Featuring some of the coolest short films from the Past, Present, and Future of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.
Thanks for helping us make this year's festival great!
Thanks for helping us make this festival great! We had a great time hanging out with all of you, hosting Mr. Doug Bradley, Michael Cisco, Joe Pulver, and the rest of our wonderful guests, as well as awesome events, including panel discussions, movies, and even live music from the Dreams in The Witch House crew! This was truly a year to remember. We'll be posting an event wrapup report with videos and photos shortly.
We could not have done it without our Kickstarter backers, and the amazing audience in the best city in the world: Portland!
A few of you have asked about how to get any remaining festival merchandise. We try to make just enough merchandise for the festival, but we still have a few T-shirts, posters, Challenge From Beyond 2014 books, and posters left at Arkham Bazaar. Click here to get your hands on the very limited merchandise that's left.
Also, click here to join our official Facebook event for next year's festival, and get in the loop early!
Talk to you soon!
H.P. Lovecraft's The Dreamlands on film!
The makers of one of the best Lovecraft adaptations of all time are at it again! This time, they're tackling H.P. Lovecraft's Dream cycle! Check out their IndieGoGo campaign.
It all started with the best ever adaptation of "The Colour Out of Space." Back in Oct 2011 & May 2012 at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, we showed our audience one of the best Lovecraft adaptations ever made, titled Die Farbe, directed by Huan Vu and produced by Jan Roth, based on Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space."
We gave Die Farbe our first "Best Adaptation" award, a new award category we created only for adaptations of Lovecraft's works. Die Farbe is a serious, scary, moody, and very smart adaptation of Lovecraft's "Colour," made on an extremely small budget (but you'd be hard pressed to tell, because the filmmakers really know what they're doing and how to make every dollar work for them). If you haven't seen it, you haven't seen Lovecraftian Cinema at its best. While the filmmakers made some alterations to Lovecraft's story, the changes enhance Lovecraft's themes and make the film more dynamic and sinister. Haven't seen it? Click to get your own DVD from the official festival store at Arkham Bazaar (you can also watch trailers for the film there).
This time, Huan Vu and Jan Roth are tackling the first ever feature film of Lovecraft's Dreamlands! As we've seen with Guillermo Del Toro's At The Mountains of Madness project, studios won't bankroll big budget Lovecraftian films, without serious restrictions on creativity... so these filmmakers are taking it straight to the audience (that's YOU) for financing. You can be a part of the magic, and by contributing even a small amount to their IndieGoGo campaign (IndieGoGo works just like Kickstarter, but unlike Kickstarter, it's available to German projects) you can also help them maintain their vision and make a film that all of us Lovecraftians can be proud of.
The Dreamlands is based on H.P. Lovecraft’s short stories “Celephaïs”, “The White Ship”, “The Strange High House in the Mist” and “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath” among others. It will build upon the world created by H.P. Lovecraft but also remain faithful to his core concepts of fantastic escapism and cosmic horror. THE DREAMLANDS is a film you are never likely to see produced by the established film industry, which is why supporting this campaign is so important!
The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival is all about independent Lovecraftian movies! When we have an opportunity like this, a chance to see something completely original, from filmmakers who have already proven themselves by creating an instant classic from one of Lovecraft's stories, we can't let it slip away!
Please help The Dreamlands become a reality and click here support their campaign!