We gathered some of the filmmakers working on movie adaptations of Lovecraft's works. Join us as we chat with Barbara Crampton, Richard Stanley, Huan Vu, and Jan Roth about their upcoming movies!
The festival directors chat with Victor LaValle about his unending love of horror, his complicated relationship with Lovecraft, and his upcoming projects.
The four composers who produced "Out of the Aeons" - Will Severin, Reber Clark, Troy Sterling Nies and Mars Homeworld will once again form the multi-headed Hydra and offer up theirr hands-on experience and discuss what the expectations are in delivering a truly haunting and powerful musical score for a Lovecraftian film. Because the genre relies so strongly on mood and Atmosphere, music is a key element in making or breaking it successful HPL inspired bit of cosmic horror Cinema.
We're all familiar with various Mythos creatures causing mental mayhem on hapless investigators, but how would that actually work? This talk will explore the utmost extremes of human perception and how the worst entities can affect that. Due to the nature of the subject matter this will cover some dark topics but will be rewarding to horror fans curious about what losing SAN points could happen in real life. Presented by Jess Gulbranson.
Lovecraft Country has hit a nerve with millions of viewers, and there has been a good deal of press coverage on contemporary responses to Lovecraft’s racism, as expressed in his letters and his published work. Why should we continue to read the work of a man whose personal views are so repugnant? Can “Lovecraftian” fiction teach us how to deal with the “Other”?
Panelists Danielle Trussoni, Nisi Shawl, Matt Ruff, Sheree Renée Thomas, moderated by Leslie S. Klinger.
Live Filmmaker Q&A for Shorts Block 1.
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Live events are recorded so you can watch later if you missed the live broadcast.
Live Filmmaker Q&A with Director BJ Verot and Cinematographer Brad Crawford. You can ask them questions via the HPLFF Discord server! https://discord.gg/Cw2fpg6
For sixty years Herbert West lingered as a minor character in a minor story overshadowed by Lovecraft's more cosmic creations. That all changed in 1985 with the release of Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator. Since then Herbert West has become an icon comparable to Freddy Kruger, Michael Meyers, and Jason Voorhees spawning competing films, comic books, novels, short stories, and even a pitch for a TV series. What are the origins of this iconic character and how has he been fantastically and macabrely transformed over the years.
From cave paintings to Clive Barker, Gilgamesh to Octavia Butler, humans have always told stories to explain the inexplicable. This panel examines how humans describe the mind-blowing experience of confronting beings and forces that put us in our place as specks of dust in the darkness. Panelists bring the varied perspectives of fandom, authors in the field, traditional monotheism, and some academic occultism as we wrestle with angels and other embodiments of order and chaos.