Actor Jeffrey Combs will be joining us as a Special Guest for the 20th Anniversary H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon in Portland, OR, this October 2-4th! Combs has made numerous film and television appearances, but among Lovecraft fans, he is best known for his dry delivery and perfect comedic timing, bringing to life the beloved Herbert West in Stuart Gordon's horror classic film "Re-Animator." He was a guest at the very first H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, and continues to be one of our most frequently requested guests, so we're extremely excited to announce that he'll be participating in this year's festival! Programming will include panels, dramatic readings, and Q&As, as well as an appearance at the Speakeasy VIP Party* on Thursday, October 1st, and a breakout session with 10 attendees chosen at random from Kickstarter backers at the Attend 3-Day, VIP Experience, or All Access levels*. Make sure you don't miss your chance to be part of the breakout session, and be sure to back the Kickstarter at one of the ticket package levels before it ends on August 6th!
*Only available through the Kickstarter which ends August 6th.
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).
Are you going to Comic-Con? On Friday the 10th from 2-3 pm Let our panel of soon to be shunned scientists and loathsome literary scholars drop some serious knowledge on The Science Behind "At the Mountains of Madness". An ever expanding throng have thrown their lot in already, so sign up now and show up early to RM23ABC!
CthulhuCon PDX 2015 was amazing! The weekend was spent playing games, enjoying Lovecraftian art, film, and music, and, of course, learning stuff through our course of amazing panel discussions on topics ranging from "Lovecraft Gets Hammered" to "The Lost Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft" to "Dracula VS Cthulhu!" We've posted the first of these, "Neo-paganism and Lovecraft" in our YouTube channel today, with more to be posted in the coming days and weeks. Check out the panel playlist below - it's the perfect way to upgrade your Lovecraftian scholarship with our amazing panelists, including Kenneth Hite, Leslie Klinger, S. T. Joshi, Wilum Pugmire, Kevin McTurk, Leeman Kessler, Robin Laws, Adam Scott Glancy, and many more.
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.
Festival Winners were chosen this weeknd from more than 20 films and many screenplays
Best Screenplay: Let It Bleed by Scott Selden
Judge's Choice - The Night Ocean directed by Maria Lorenzo Hernandez
Audience Choice - The Mill at Calder's End directed by Kevin McTurk
The Livestream Channel of the HPLFF San Pedro has videos of the one of a kind live events featured in 2015. Tantalize your eyes (tentacalize?). Cthulhu Prayer, Macabre Fantasy, participant interviews. Pub Trivia. See for the first time or enjoy again.
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Let's look at the checklist
Friday
Essential Saltes, Invocation, Rise of Cthulhu, Radio tuned to Macabre Fantasy, International shorts, Vincent Price, Pub tirvia, Lovecraft wine,
Saturday
Skillute Cycle, Swinging Robots, splatterpunk, more than 20 cosmic horror shorts, the director's cut of The Resurrected with wife Diane O'Bannon and collaborator Matt R Lohr, the Mall of Cthulhu, HP Loveshaft, democracy, burlesque, Stone Brewery,
Sunday
Happy Diner, Cthulhu Prayer, The Dog Head Story, Pickman's Apprentice art duel, Lovecraft documentaries. The Zone, D&D, CoC,
Buy the There in Spirit Ticket to live stream the more than 20 short films, play along with Lovecraftian Pub Trivia. Don't have the fare all the way San Pedro? Don't like the look of the bus driver? Enjoy the San Pedro HP Lovecraft Film Festival by live streaming to your computer. Plus special Green Room discussions with the film makers, bonus features, and streaming of many of the live events.
Ancient friends, a vague impression of a dark nether world of subterrene mystery is projected in the old movie house the Warner Grand. When the thin coating of fine blue-grey dust settles a shade of a long-dead living thing might be raised up. Thus begins The Age of Yogg Sothoth and the HP Lovecraft Film Festival San Pedro.