2018 Kickstarter Campaign is LIVE! Get Tickets and Exclusive Rewards!

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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:

Four Screenplay Finalists for 2018

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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

The 2018 Awards Roundup

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Congratulations to all the 2018 H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival Award Winners! With so many amazing films, choosing the winners was a difficult process

 

Categories and winning films are:

 

Best Feature: Hammer of the Gods by Nick Szostakiwskyj & Cameron Tremblay

Best Short Film: "Young Liars" by Adam Christy

Best Adaptation: "The House of the Seven Gables" by Ben Wickey

Best Screenplay: "You and Me and Dagon Makes Three" by Mack W. Mani

Victoria Price, daughter of Vincent Price, is our 2019 Guest of Honor!

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Vincent Price has long been a beloved actor in the horror genre, and starred in several very Lovecraftian films, including Roger Corman's The Haunted Palace (based on HPL's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward), Diary of a Madman (based on Guy De Maupassant's "The Horla"), and even portrayed the sorcerer John Carnby in Night Gallery's adaptation of Clark Ashton Smith's "The Return of The Sorcerer." This year, we welcome his daughter Victoria Price as our guest of honor.

Book your room using our discounted group rate for 2019!

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For you early birds who are planning your travel for the 2019 festival, we have a discounted group rate at the DoubleTree by Hilton near Lloyd Center. Rates are $155/night+tax for a single bed and start at $165/night+tax for two beds. CLICK HERE To book your room!

If you're looking for accommodations closer to the theater, check out our Travel & Venues section!

NecronomiCon Film Schedule announced

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The NecronomiCon Providence film schedule and core programming schedules have been announced! Check out the great cosmic horror films they're showing, and pay special attention the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival® short film presentations. Each of the three short film block will have its main screening at the swanky RISD Metcalf auditorium (where last year's HPLFF Providence took place) in Chace Center at 20 N. Main St., featuring excellent projection and sound, plus live Q&A sessions with visiting filmmakers.

Richard Stanley’s Color Out of Space comes to Portland

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Hot off the tail of its World Premiere in Toronto, The H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, OR (Oct 4-6) will host the regional premiere of visionary director Richard Stanley’s long-awaited The Color Out of Space, based on the H. P. Lovecraft story, and starring Nicolas Cage (Mandy, Raising Arizona) and Joely Richardson as the Gardner family, who must deal with the horrors visited on their home and family  by the arrival of a meteorite with destructive properties.

LEGENDARY ROGER CORMAN TO APPEAR AT THE H. P. LOVECRAFT FILM FESTIVAL IN PORTLAND, OR

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We are over the moon-thrilled to announce that Roger Corman, cinematic luminary and all around movie making legend, will be a special guest at the 24th Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival™ this October 4-6. He will be joining Guest of Honor Victoria Price on stage for a rare 35mm screening of The Haunted Palace, based on Lovecraft’s story “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.”

Lovecraftian Micro-Fiction Contest winners

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The reading is done. The winners are chosen. The stories are on their way to press. Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 Lovecraftian Micro Fiction contest!

COLOR OUT OF SPACE wins big at 24th Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival, plus all 2019 Award Winners!

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Congratulations to all the 2019 H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival Award Winners! With over 45 short and feature films, we had more films than ever eligible for awards. Choosing the winning films was extremely difficult, and all the filmmakers whose films were accepted this year should be extremely proud.

 

Categories and winning films are:

 

Best Feature: Color Out of Space by Richard Stanley

Best Short Film: "Red Moon" by Thomas Chrétien

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