• 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.

     

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    Best Feature: Color Out of Space by Richard Stanley

    Best Short Film: "Red Moon" by Thomas Chrétien

  • Call for Entries - submissions for 2020 are open!

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    Submissions are open for the 2020 H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival through FilmFreeway. Save on festival submission fees by submitting early! The earlier you submit, the greater chance you will have of being selected for any satellite events we host, including potential HPLFF screenings at our 3rd Biennial HPLFF in Providence, RI, August 21-23, 2020 (Lovecraft's Birthday weekend!)

    All deadlines, requirements, and fees are shown on our FilmFreeway page. Submit early, submit often! 

  • Streaming in August and October!

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    Whether you're on the East Coast or the West Coast, you've probably been wondering what's going to happen with the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival®. We've been closely watching the COVID-19 situation in both Rhode Island and here in Oregon, and it is apparent that neither show can happen in person this year.

  • Get Streaming Tickets for 130 Years of Lovecraft show

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    Get streaming tickets to our one-night streaming event to celebrate H. P. Lovecraft's 130th birthday, featuring short films both new and classic from the 25 year history of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival®! You can join in the fun anywhere in the US! 

    Some of these classic films have not been seen since they first played at the festival. As a rare treat, we've gathered the filmmakers of those early films for an interactive Q&A! 

  • The reviews are in... Lovecraft Country is a hit!

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    The highly-anticipated new HBO series, Lovecraft Country, based on the excellent and exciting book by Matt Ruff and produced by Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us) premiered on August 16, a mere four days before H. P. Lovecraft's 130th birthday. It recontextualizes the Lovecraftian narrative of battling cults and monsters from beyond with black actors during the Jim Crow era of American history. It shows the kind of story that fresh voices can lend to Cosmic horror, and uses both the history and Lovecraft to great effect. 

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