Legendary movie icon Roger Corman will be in attendance at the 2011 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® to accept the "Howie" award for contributions to Lovecraft cinema.

Corman was the first director to tackle Lovecraft with his 1963 adaptation of "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" as The Haunted Palace, starring Vincent Price.

We will be screening The Haunted Palace at this year's festival.

Tickets are now on sale for the 2011 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival here.

VIP reception tickets have been added to the 2011 San Pedro festival.

The reception will be Friday, September 16, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., just before the festival opens. Located in the annex of our partners the Grand Vision Foundation, just 50 feet from the theater, join the filmmakers, authors, artists and vendors for an intimate gathering with food and specialty cocktails (non-alcoholic beverages will be available, as beer and wine).

The short films playing at the San Pedro 2011 festival, which will be seen and judged by Guillermo del Toro, are:

"Black Goat" by Joseph Nanni
"Call of Nature" by Rick Tillman
"Curse of Yig" by Paul von Stoetzel
"Idle Worship" by Theo Stefanski
"Pickman’s Model" by Michael Shlain
"The Raven" by Christopher Saphire
"The Ritual" by Will Wright
"Shadow of the Unnamable" by Sascha Renninger
"Static Aeons" by Gib Patterson

Thanks to all our entrants, it was very tough to program this block.

The 2011 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® in San Pedro will be the first to screen a newly restored 35mm print of "Berkeley Square" from 1933. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

Lovecraft liked the movie, and it inspired him to write "The Shadow Out of Time". The grandchildren of director Frank Lloyd will introduce and share their memorabilia of the picture, which was Lloyd's favorite. He also directed "Mutiny on the Bounty" with Clark Gable (Best Picture).