Driven by a sentience from down below, Inky the Octopus escaped his enclosure through a small opening. He slid across the floor during the night and squeezed his body through a narrow pipe leading to open water. A trail of slime and ichor was all that was left. Octopuses have broken out of sealed observation containers and closed aquariums; some escaped multiple times to eat the inhabitants of nearby aquariums. Whispers of the Great Lord' Cthulhu's awakening have circled the globe. Inky, not wanting to miss His invocation, chose to ride the El Nino currents. We fear for Inky's safety. You needn't endeavor the firightful journey, buy a Livestream Ticket for $15
If, you are driven to madness as was Inky, check the Travel Button and buy your Festival Tickets. The Gates do not open without sacrifice.
The general schedule is up, filled with innumerable (well not actually, there are a finite number) of Lovecraftian short films. Get tickets for all three days-- you don't want to miss Lovecraft Trivia, Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom, Dunwich Horror Picture Show, or the Cthulhu Prayer Breakfast.
Each day goes late and particularly on Saturday starts early.
Painting with Pickman
featuring artist Mike Dubisch
"The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it.It shall not find me. God, that hand! The Easel! The Easel!"
Join LoveCraft Wines for their first ever Painting with Pickman featuring Mike Dubisch May 1st during the final day of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival San Pedro®.
LoveCraft Wines will supply everything you need (Easel, Paints, Canvas). Mike Dubisch will instruct you step-by-step to create your own 16x20 masterpiece while you sip on a glass of LoveCraft Wines! Then after you are done, you take your work of art home leaving the clean up to us! Ticket $60
The event will be approximately 2-3 hours and we will take a small break for dry time.
WonderCon sneak peak with Perlman and Plummer
HPL expert panel this weekend Describing the Indescribable: Adapting the works of HP Lovecraft
Actors Christopher Plummer and Ron "Hellboy" Perlman have been cast in the upcoming animated feature film "Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom" based on Arcana's graphic novel of the same name. This is being announced around movie websites (http://deadline.com/…/christopher-plummer-ron-perlman-anima…), but what they aren't saying is that this Friday night at Wondercon (8:30-9:30 room 515B), we'll be showing an EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK SNEAK PEEK of this movie plus giving away swag from it. Also, we have director/producer Sean Patrick O'Reilly (CEO of Arcana) attending the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in San Pedro, April 29-May 1 (and showing a longer clip from the movie and doing Q&A about it). Tickets (INCLUDING LIVESTREAMING TICKETS IF YOU CAN'T PHYSICALLY ATTEND) are available here:
https://squareup.com/market/HPLFF
Join the 57!
Friday, March 25, 2016 -
8:30pm to 9:30pm
1201 S. Figueroa Street Los Angeles, CA 90015 Room 515B
Los Angeles, CA
Plus special afterparty March 26th 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at Redwood Bar and Grill 316 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles with dancing, movies, Lovecraftian pub trivia, prizes, prayers to Elder Gods, etc.
Kickstarter backers, a "loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity," have opened the gates for the Elder Gods to the Warner Grand. The HPLFF Kickstarter 2016 raised more than $16,250 to ensure a most eldritch time. You backers have prompted entry of the Yellow bEast Joe S Pulver to share tales of dim Carcosa. And we are many steps closer to bringing Jeffrey Coombs (Re-Animator, The Raven) to the Festival.
The Wondercon Panel : Describing the Indescribable: Adapting the works of HP Lovecraft is set for March 25th at 8:30. The Wondercon reception at the Redwood Bar (316 W. 2nd St) is Saturday 26th at 6:30 is open to all.
The T-Shirt image for the Dunwich Horror Picutre Show, a shadowcast of the Corman classic, is sure to quease.
Beware! the Ides of March. On the 15th the HPLFF Kickstarter will go dormant, as will your chance to get Mike Dubowski's art on a poster, shirt (denizens of Dunwich often chose a work shirt), or wine goblet. Get in while you can! http://kck.st/1SNaCjd
After that, it would be two more revolutions of Hyperion around Saturn before Yog Sothoth will return . . . to SAN PEDRO!
Sean Patrick O'Reilly, writer/director of the upcoming animated feature film Howard Lovecraft & the Frozen Kingdom will show a segment of the movie at the fest and talk about bringing his company Arcana's graphic novel to the silver screen. Maybe you and yours can get a picture with "Spot" (or a Shoggoth?).
HPL Film Festival Kickstarter is growing. Your tributes can push the limits of reality and bring The King in Yellow to the Port of Los Angeles.
Joe S Pulver the annointed Yellow bEast has this to say :
O Masters of the Black Fires Concealed
Rise o’er the flights of dim mortals sleeping.
Nug and Yeb, Great Dragons black and red, make them
come to the fest to see the Yellow Sign
and for all new, original programming in addition to some of the finest Lovecraftian films.
O First Issue of She Who Is to Come Bearing a Thousand Young
Now lost to thy stillness of discomfort, spark thy Doom-Engines Black and Red
Instill imaginings of three days of movies, music, games, art, authors, vendors, and so much more--
O Dreadful Gods, in thy cold sepulchers deep amongst the black maze of stars,
Heed this appeal, made with arms spread wide in thy acolytes’ wanting, and arise
and tell all the maddened-children it’s like Woodstock for every Unmasked lurker
tainted by the shadowy dreams of Lovecraft
The time is at hand! The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® and CthulhuCon™ San Pedro 2016 KICKSTARTER is LIVE! Give us your sanity points and money! Get tickets, collectibles, ephemera, shirts, art, VIP treatment. Get tickets and be there in the flesh or a LiveStream pass and haunt the Warner Grand from your own blasted heath along a tributary of the Miskatonic computer in your own house.
Save the Date, but not your sanity: The 7th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in San Pedro, CA this April 29th - May 1st at the Warner Grand Theatre. The Theme is The Dunwich Horror . Kickstarter live now gets you in for a Shoggoth-load of Lovecraftian film, plus panels, wine, readings, and live events. Check out Facebook.
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