We are thrilled to present the 2020 Lovecraft Under the Gun 72 Hour Film Contest entries! Each team had 72 hours to write, film, edit, and upload a cosmic horror short film with a required line of dialogue and prop. These are the entries! The winner is determined by audience and Jury voting, so be sure to watch and vote!
Link to vote is all lower case! bit.ly/lutg20
Stuart Gordon was instrumental in starting the wave of films that brought Lovecraft stories to the big screen. We gathered some of the people who worked with him on these films to pay tribute to Stuart and share their stories of working with this Master of Horror. (Andrew Migliore, Barbara Crampton, Brian Yuzna, Dennis Paoli, Jeffrey Combs, John Strysik)
Whether this is your first experience at the HPLFF, or you've been attending for years, Ken Hite explaining the Cthulhu Mythos is sure to be entertaining AND informative!
Author Reading with Evan Peterson!
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.