The San Pedro Festival 2016 is over. Our "most accursed rites of human blasphemy... called him for a moment" and then was gone. Rites that included the base lamentations of writers awed and horrified at our cosmic insignificance, artists creating new works while merchants sold strange artifacts. Friday was the twin hammers to the head of Black Mountain Side and The Mist. Walpurgisnacht Saturday had panels and a NEW play adaptation of The Colour Out of Space, and the psycho freakout of The Dunwich Horror Picture Show. Films traditional and expermiental from around the world were a tour de force. Sunday's Brucnh in fun was the perfect hangover cure, with sermons, songs, Ask Lovecraft and games including demo of the 7th Edition Call of Cthulhu. ia ia!!
No password but you must RSVP. The LoveCraft Wines SpeakEasy Party kicks off your descent into madness. Kickstarter backers need to respond to the email sent. Others go to the Facebook event
Hosted by LoveCraft Wines at Off the Vine across the street from the Warner Grand Theatre. The SpeakEasy will open at 3:30 PM April 29th and will feature LoveCraft Wines, readings, art, music with Marionette H.P. Lovecraft himself reading poetry!
491 W 6th Street Suite 103
This sunday, HPLFF will commemorate the 90th anniversary of Call of Cthulhu at Monsterpalooza. Featuring a panel of Lovecraftian film artists Pete von Sholly, Sean Branney, Kevin McTurk, Mallory O'Meara, Paul Komoda
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:
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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?).