Tickets are on sale now for the 22nd Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival®, October 6-8th! This year’s lineup includes more than 40 independent short and feature films from around the world, hours of panel discussions, author readings, gaming, live events, and special guests. Buy them in person at their box office or online.
Barbara Steele will appear at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival® this Saturday, October 7th at 1 pm! The First Lady of horror will be with us to briefly introduce the special screening of Mario Bava’s gothic masterpiece, BLACK SUNDAY, and will do a Q&A afterwards and will sign autographs in the main lobby. This is a rare opportunity to see the legendary actress talk about her long and storied career! Since seating is limited, 3-day pass holders will be admitted to the theater first.
Congratulations to all the Festival Award Winners! With so many great films, it was extremely difficult to choose the winners. Our jury deliberated furiously!
Categories and winning films are:
Best Feature: They Remain by Philip Gelatt
Best Short Film: "Sound From the Deep" by Antti Laakso & Joonas Allonen
Best Adaptation: "Wattmarck" by Lorenz Tröbinger
Best Screenplay: "The Summoning Day" by Soroosh Iradi
Last held at the Providence Public Library, the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival® will take place August 17-19th 2018, at its new digs, smack dab in Lovecraft country, up on College Hill at the beautiful RISD Metcalf Auditorium. With fantastic projection, excellent sound, and a lovely dark auditorium, the Metcalf ups our film festival game, ensuring that you'll be immersed in the cosmic horror of our independent film selection.
Providence, RI will host the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival at the Metcalf Auditorium in RISD's Chace Center this August 17-19th. In addition to a selection of high quality independent feature and short films, there will be author readings held in the Arcade Providence, featuring Livia Llewellyn, Donald Sidney-Fryer, Matthew Bartlett, Christopher Burke, Fiona Maeve Geist, and Victoria Dalpe.
This Friday, Can Evrenol's highly anticipated Lovecraftian feature film, HOUSEWIFE shows opening night of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival® in Providence, RI, taking place on College Hill at the beautiful Metcalf Auditorium at RISD Chace Center (20 N Main St, Providence). We're very pleased to bring this amazing film to Lovecraft's hometown. Can Evrenol is the director of BASKIN (2015) which garnered many extreme reviews, and was called one of the bloodiest and one of the weirdest horror films of that year.
PORTLAND, OR - We are extremely excited to announce that Author and Screenwriter Chiaki J. Konaka will be our 2018 Guest of Honor! With over 200 screenwriting credits, he is best known in the US for Marebito, "Innsmouth Wo Oou Kage," "Ultraman Gaia," and "Mononoke." He is also well known among fans for putting Lovecraftian and Mythos elements in many of his works.
PORTLAND, OR - Necronomidol, an "occult-infused" Japanese Idol band, will be performing at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival! The Lovecraftian metal pop, darkwave band will open the festival on Friday night, October 5th, and will also perform a longer set on Saturday night, October 6th. With song titles like "Strange Aeons," "Ithaqua," and "Celephais," festival attendees are sure to appreciate the juxtaposition of pop vocals, metal/darkwave instrumentals, and lyrics suffused with cosmic horror and mythological references.
The 2018 Kickstarter Campaign is LIVE!
Get Deluxe Ticket Packages, VIP Experiences, Innsmouth & Tiki-themed rewards, and help support the festival! If you're not able to attend this year, you can still enjoy the Tiki-goodness by pledging for "there in spirit" rewards (we'll ship them to you after the festival!).
Reward highlights include:
This year's Screenplay competition has been narrowed down to four finalists by our illustrious jury (Ross E. Lockhart, Dominique Lamssies, Susan O'Neill, Gwen Callahan). The winner will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on Sunday night at 7 pm! We can not post screenplays, but here are the synopses of the four contenders:
Feature screenplay - "Lovecraft: Into the Abyss" by Mark Sudano