Starting in 2020, we've curated a separate Streaming Edition of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival, with streaming tickets available to Cosmic and Weird horror fans worldwide. This year's takes place December 4-6, with extended viewing through December 11th, just in time to lend some spookiness to this wintry time, in the spirit of "Ghost Stories for Xmas". It brings together a full weekend's worth of short and feature films, which will be released on a rolling schedule, allowing you to take the weekend off, put up your feet and follow along with films as they're released, and tune into streaming Q&As with many of the filmmakers. It's a scheduled and curated festival experience in your living room with hosted introductions.
Film list is still under construction! Check back frequently for updates.
Feature Films
Short Films
Films at this event
Hilda is hired by a man called Wilder to translate a mysterious book called "The King in Yellow". Her brother Louis has doubts about Wilder, the book and Hilda in general. But to Hilda this might be much more than a simple translation job.
Two amateur cave explorers, Guy and Phil, decide to split up in order to cover more ground. Guy gets lost and it isn't long before he determines that he is not alone. Just who or what is down there with him is the real mystery.
A new resident at Dr. North's suspicious lab discovers a creature that feeds on our fear.
B-Women present, "Mockingbird"! This film was made in just 72 hours, using a required prop and line of dialogue.
"Peg 2: Resurrection" is an entry from PDX Filmmongers, a returning team in this annual competition! This film was made in just 72 hours, using a required prop and line of dialogue.
"Roomies" by Aeion Form Films was made in just 72 hours, using a required prop and line of dialogue!
"The Flamingos of Jackson Hole" is an entry from Chaos Productions 307! This film was made in just 72 hours, using a required prop and line of dialogue.
The Mask of the Foil King is an entry from Trash People From the Dump, a returning team with multiple wins under their belt! This film was made in just 72 hours, using a required prop and line of dialogue.
Stole My Mango productions presents "The Protocol"! This film was made in just 72 hours, using a required prop and line of dialogue.
When Zoe is violently attacked by a strange woman, she begins to experience horrible visions. She has only minutes to get help or uncover the mystery behind the madness that surrounds her.
While visiting home from college, Sophie's parents bring her to meet a reclusive elderly uncle who controls the family's estate.
What if reality is not what it seems? On a winter night, a taxi driver picks up a silent stranger and drives her along an empty road. Accompanied by H. P. Lovecraft's Beyond the Wall of Sleep, the familiar world begins to fracture — and something ancient surfaces through its fabric.
A couple is on the move, traveling through a country struck by unexpected weather phenomena. As they navigate through this unpredictable environment, it becomes clear that the time for strong emotions seems to have passed.
On Halloween night, a deaf girl and her grandmother carve pumpkins and wait for trick-or-treaters. They are about to receive a menacing visitor.
During a boring visit to her grandmother's house, Cárol discovers a unique doll to kill time with. But she soon realizes that, in that house, she isn't the only one who knows how to have fun.
In 1842, Sarah Aldridge murdered her father, then removed her own head; a century and a half later, a curious filmmaker digs through Sarah's writings seeking inspiration, but finds her life and Sarah's bound across time and space in mysterious ways.
An amateur archaeologist arrives on a desolate peatland in Lancashire, their mind filled with the strange power that peat-bog waters hold to preserve organic matter. They have come to excavate the peatland. They have come to exhume a body. But, in digging into the peat — and into the past — they unearth much more than mere relics.
The peat holds forgotten histories, uneasy truths, and vast stores of climate-change-accelerating carbon. Reflecting the attempt to document and preserve this landscape via the moving image, the film becomes both a lament and a call to action for local peat-bog restoration and protection.
Inspired by the stories of Algernon Blackwood and M.R. James, shot on black and white Super 16 film by Morgan K. Spencer (Ungentle), edited by Anthony Ing (director of Jill, Uncredited) and scored by Richard Skelton (Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead), Out of the Peat is a queer eco-horror which reflects on what it means to bury, to archive, to capture, to unearth.
The film was supported by the BFI Network Film Fund, and shot in collaboration with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust.
A redhead girl born into Appalachia’s hidden clan of soul stealers runs from the violent destiny awaiting her. When sanctuary becomes another trap, she must choose between her humanity and the hunger that defines her bloodline.
Set in 1973 against a simmering Cold War, the energy crisis, and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, two budding clairvoyants take part in the Remote Viewing Program, a scientific study on so-called “psi” energy. But both seers have ulterior motives that will test the limits of what can be discovered with psi.
A coroner’s inquest into an inexplicable death reveals the existence of an enigmatic creature.
The bizarre tale of a young boy and his puritanical family who must grapple with the morality and consequences of deceit
The secret cult known as the Rite of Cycle summons Julian to return to the community to search for a missing boy whose disappearance threatens the life of his adult son, Thomas. Against his mother’s wishes, Thomas accompanies Julian into the woods to help find the missing boy. What begins as a rescue mission quickly descends into a psychological nightmare. Thomas is forced to confront not only the cult’s twisted philosophy but the darkness festering within his own lineage.
After surviving a mysterious ritual, a young warrior flees beneath an ancient pyramid in search of a way out. As he navigates its forgotten depths, he uncovers the secrets of a lost civilization and a hidden reality beyond his understanding.
In desperation, a hungry man orders a pizza that seems to be out of this world. A feast of the extraterrestrial kind.
Two decadent grave robbers, obsessed with death and forbidden relics, steal an amulet from an ancient tomb. Haunted by nightmares, guilt, and the distant howling of an unseen beast, the men find themselves pursued by a terror that refuses to remain buried.
In the XIX Century there’s a music school where it’s always dark.
An unknown cosmic horror infiltrates a family through a VHS player.
An unexpected visit from an addict brother stirs things up at home. Is he strung out again? Or is there something else going on?
Dutch Lazarus is a detective who specializes in strange cases. When a new client walks into his office and stymies him at every turn, we begin to wonder what her game is, and if Dutch already knows a lot more more than she's telling.
The day before opening night of 'Romeo and Juliet', an actress makes a life-altering decision between her father and the stage. An adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's original short story.
A bookish lab technician uses her access to a DNA database to find a date, but the ‘chance’ meet cute turns into something much more sinister.
A late night clothing donation takes an unexpected turn.
Raised in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Damião joins a local drug gang to help pay for college. During a night shift, he spots hooded figures sneaking through the forest toward a church, uncovering an NGO tied to powerful politicians hiding rituals devoted to the King in Yellow.
Snowbound high in the mountains, a lone ski patroller races to save her injured colleague, only to find herself hunted by a cosmic cannibal demon bent on finding its next meal.
Shipwrecked off the coast of Iceland, an explorer must fight for survival on a desolate island inhabited by the bloodthirsty witch Grýla. This handcrafted film uses live action bunraku puppetry, stop-motion animation, and rotoscope animation to tell an epic tale set in the world of Icelandic folklore.
One of the last surviving scientists wakes up in a research station with no memory and no way out. The crew is gone. Something happened here, and she is the only one left who can piece it together. To survive, she has to face amnesia, betrayal and a force that should not exist.
Kids in the Hall meet Grand Guignol in this horror comedy. In turn of the century France, a victim of an acid attack is visited by the perpetrator who begs for forgiveness. Starring Scott and Dave from the Kids in the Hall and directed by Amit Itelman. Based on the Grand Guignol play by Maurice Level.
Felicia Highmore suffers from an eye disease that slowly makes her blind. She infiltrates the house of Dr. Ito to steal an experimental eye drop that could potentially heals her. After using the eyedrop without permission, Felicia discovers a sinister secret behind Dr. Ito and the eye drop…
Two clashing Special Agents in the Pacific Northwest who struggle to find out what happened the night of a search and secure mission of an asteroid that crashed in the Siskiyou forests that left five other agents MIA and only one found alive but disfigured and nonsensical.
Aiden rents a cabin getaway for his friends. They find it suspicious but could not have been prepared for the artifact dagger they are presented with that seems to be a radio for a cosmic voice.
Yannick, a hurried delivery driver, loses his way on a country road and hits a cat in front of an isolated house. When his vehicle refuses to start again, he has no choice but to knock on the door.
Abominable plumbing and violent deaths. MARIANNE, extremely pregnant, and BEN, a plumber and one-night stand, team up to survive an epic night and face the monsters of a building beset by an unknown evil.
Created alongside Adam Wiltzie’s upcoming album Friendship Survival Guide, a collaboration with the late, legendary composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, this short film by directorJonas Govaerts brings three tracks from the album together in a cinematic visual piece. A taxi driver waits for a blind man at a train station. Produced by De Machine
On the first night of Hanukkah, a grandfather and his estranged granddaughter are pulled into a sinister game of dreidel.
Father Liam, a young and uncertain priest, discovers that his mentor, Father Machen, has returned from a retreat claiming to have seen God. Seemingly possessed, Machen tempts Liam to join a pagan ritual that promises to put an end to his doubts.
Three trappers lost in the wilderness of the 1830s Pacific Northwest must face more than the elements to survive after a fateful decision.
Jacob Caligari, suffering from fatal familiar insomnia, seeks help at the Cosmatos Sleep Institute, led by Dr. Stygian. Undergoing treatment with the Dream Machine, Jacob's supposed therapeutic sessions turn nightmarish as he encounters otherworldly forces. As the experiment progresses, Jacob faces terrifying hallucinations, while Dr. Maurin, increasingly skeptical of Stygian’s ethics, questions the true purpose of the Dream Machine.
Lisa witnesses a mysterious man leave an envelope on a bridge, soon picked up by a woman. The next day the story repeats, but the woman doesn't show. Instead Lisa takes the envelope and embarks on a Kafkaesque quest between time and space.
On a remote Oregon farm, a couple grieving from a miscarriage finds hope in a mysterious flower. But as it heals her, something else takes root in him. Nurture is a dialogue-free folk-horror fable about love, grief, and the consequences of taking too much from nature.
A desperate woman pushes her ailing mother into a remedial cult in the hopes of hearing "I love you."
Four friends head into the woods for a weekend retreat, hoping to reconnect and work through their tangled relationships. But they soon realize personal issues are the least of their problems. There’s a presence in the forest, and it doesn’t just want to harm them— it wants to change them.
An expanding wound from beyond. A scientist questioning reality itself. A woman becoming the site of something older than time.
Five years after his sister vanished on Easter night, 16-year-old Johnny lives in a town haunted by her disappearance. When mysterious chocolate eggs reappear and rumours of the Easter Bunny return, he must confront a terrifying truth as grief, myth and ancient horror collide.
In a universe where the strong reign supreme, the mighty Cthulhu asserts his power over human frailty - but upon whom do *we* humans unleash our own power?
The story follows retired professor Henry Armitage, who witnesses an eccentric ritual: a colony of ants has organized itself into ceremonial circles, seeking to draw his attention. What is their desire? What horrors might they awaken?
In an effort to complete their sophomore album, an artistically drained folk band follows in the footsteps of metal legends and decides to summon an old Norse god, only to realize divine help comes with chaotic consequences.
This documentary examines Hammer Film’s use of Cornwall as a setting and location, exploring the “new weird Britain” of contemporary Cornish folk horror with filmmakers, playwrights, and historians, including Mark Jenkin, Jane Darke, Ruth Heholt, Carl Grose, Dean Puckett, and Ryan Mackfall.
A lonely young woman wakes up in an unusual place where things feel off and emerges from isolation seeking connection, only to discover a disturbing reality.
A soil specialist turns his Old Quebec apartment into a laboratory for soils and carnivorous plants. When one strange specimen begins behaving in impossible ways, his experiments take an unexpected turn.
A group of teenagers travel with their tutor to a mountain community, to help prepare their chapel for a celebration.
Madalyn wakes up to find a wedding ring on her finger and a stranger's belongings in her home. Something is very wrong, and as her world spirals around her on the Fourth of July, Madalyn discovers that no one is safe.