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.”
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!
A young couple flee to the coast to await a boat that will take them on to a new life. As they wait, dark forces close in and their plan starts to unravel. Based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe and set in the aftermath of the war, under the long lingering shadow of the Irish-Anglo conflict, ‘Annabel Lee’ is a tale of a forbidden love between two young stowaways from opposite sides of the Irish sea. As the couple run for their lives, they make it as far as a a cottage in Devon, awaiting rescue to take them to France.
The true story of the first UFO encounter in American history. Written and Directed by Thomas Negovan & Aaron Shaps. Starring Jack Campbell and Robert Boulter with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge as the voice of the creature. Orchestrations by Troy Sterling Nies featuring Armen Ra and Brian Viglione.
A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences. This classic of Cosmic Horror will be shown on rare 35mm film.
Two travelers find their relationship and sanity tested by mysterious forces at a local air BnB.
A hypnotic extraterrestrial critter lands in the swimming pool of a family in crisis. They all finish becoming addicted to him, except the mother and head of household. She is the only one that seems to realize that the critter commits an outrage against the familial stability and will fight against it.
Ten years ago, in a desperate moment, Vivian struck a pact with a mysterious stranger. Now, in the dead of night, she abandons the love of her life to make a remote rendezvous and settle her debt.
A police forensic photographer known as the exhibit man discovers some town folk have been infected by an alien.
An economics writer is sent on a business trip, because of a conflict with his boss, to the remote Kuril Islands. There he meets with a charming beautiful young woman who is a head of a mysterious community of 12 people who protect a well-kept secret.