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
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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!
Charles Stross at 20th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, OR
Hugo award-winning author Charles Stross will be our Guest of Honor at the 20th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, Oct. 2-4, 2015 at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, OR. Mr. Stross is to be honored for his contributions to bringing the worlds and ideas of H.P. Lovecraft to a new audience with his Laundry Files books; a series that combines a Lovecraftian aesthetic with humor, secret agents, and hackers.
Rare screening of Hellraiser with Doug Bradley Q&A
We're Raising Hell in Portland!
Click here to get your festival tickets now for this rare experience!
See the full schedule for times and details.
Okay, we did it! It took a lot of wheeling and dealing, but we're finally able to announce that we're showing Clive Barker's Hellraiser, on the big 60ft screen, presented live and in-person by DOUG BRADLEY himself! (click the link for more information, and to see why we think this is one of the more Lovecraftian films of our generation).
Don't miss this chance to see this cult classic back on the big screen!
But, wait... there's more! Doug Bradley isn't just presenting Hellraiser, he's also doing two intimate readings of H.P. Lovecraft's tales, PLUS showing us his short film version of Lovecraft's "The Outsider."
This isn't just an autograph table set up at a horror convention... this is a close up experience with a master!