Barbarian Days

Film

Most people spend their whole lives searching for what makes them happy. Few find it. Even fewer get the chance to share it with friends. Every year hundreds of fans flock to tiny Cross Plains, Texas, the home of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian. Nearly 80 years after his death by suicide, Howard, an outsider himself, has attracted his own merry band of self-admitted outcast followers. We followed the Big 4, the top two Howard scholars from the old guard and two up and comers, through their world of fandom at “Howard Days,” the annual celebration of Howard’s life and works.

Bedtime for Timmy

Film

One of the audience favorite films from the 2012 Portland H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, Timmy gets one more go around in our "Best of" block.Night falls, shadows creep out, and the time has come for little Timmy to go to bed. But can he brave the ominous gaze of his closet door?

Beyond The Basement Door

Film

Alistair, a genetic researcher, saves his own life from cancer by making a pact with some dark and dangerous people. The secret lies with whatever is making the odd sounds in Alistair's basement. The deal he made forbids him to go down there for three days...no matter what he sees or hears. His sanity, his life, depends on it.As the line between reality and delusion fades, Alistair struggles with nosy neighbors (Richard Pryor Jr.), a rival ex-boss (Daniel Roebuck, LOST) and haunting images of a lady in blue. Getting out of the house only makes his anxiety worse.

Black Pharaoh

Film

The Black Pharaoh runs amok, accompanied by a bristling score of Swedish Death Metal. Footage cut from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's The Whisperer in Darkness is reborn in the hands of the HPLHS' Mike Dalager.

The Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3D

Film

A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.A classic movie from the vault, about one of the first "deep ones" to make the silver screen. Proud to present this in 3D!

Black Goat

Film

Jacques Cowan is what the French call 'a runner of the woods.' He may be a foreigner in the new world but Jacques quickly learned the ways of the native people, their language, their routes, and their skills. But he didn't leave his life in another land for adventure, freedom, and wealth - he had much more in mind than trading pelts and cheating death. Jacques had listened intently to the stories that had crossed the ocean, extraordinary tales of mystical creatures and unknown forces. Black Goat finds Jacques mid hunt, as he closes in on what others thought was a legend.

Blood

Film

Inspired by a short story, His Great Power Toucheth Me, written on-the-fly at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival, Blood recasts the events of that story in the New World at the turn of the previous century, when the New World represented hope and dreams for everyone in the Old World -- including those who had best be staying in the Old World. A group of Pirate Lords, meeting to arrange their territory, swap tales of adventures. One finally stands and tells a story too outrageous to believe, but too compelling to ignore.

Braineater

Film

A small group of young children are having a backyard camp-out, cooking s'mores with an uncaring if not downright mean chaperon, when another adult from the house comes out to give them the frightening of their lives!

The Burrowers

Film

In the Dakota Territories in the year 1879, a handful of brave pioneers maintain isolated settlements in the badlands beyond civilization. Irish Immigrant Fergus Coffey is near to winning the hand of his beloved Maryanne when she is suddenly taken from him, her family brutally abducted in a nighttime attack on their homestead. Suspicion falls immediately on hostile Indians.

Call of Nature

Film

Just another typical day for an Elder God whose current day job is hanging out on a fireplace mantle looking ominous...

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