• Call of C'thulu

    Film

    A short film inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu", created by students for the Vancouver Film School's The Interactive Lovecraft (AKA "Project Space Squid").

  • Dunwich

    Film

    A short film inspired by the H.P. Lovecraft story "The Dunwich Horror", created by students for the Vancouver Film School's The Interactive Lovecraft (aka "Project Space Squid").

  • Rats in the Wall

    Film

    Short animated film inspired by Lovecraft's short story "The Rats in the Walls", which was written in August-September of 1923, and first published in Weird Tales, March 1924. Created by students for the Vancouver Film School's The Interactive Lovecraft (AKA "Project Space Squid").

  • Dagon

    Film

    Short animated film based on Lovecraft's famous short story of the same name, created by students for the Vancouver Film School's The Interactive Lovecraft (aka "Project Space Squid").

  • Berkeley Square

    Film

    A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors. This was for its time one of Lovecraft's favorite movies and an inspiration for his story The Shadow Out of Time. Lovecraft saw this film four times in late 1933. Lovecraft himself had written a story on this very theme himslef, the unpublished The Case of Charles Dexter Ward in 1927.

  • Whisper and I’ll Come To You

    Film

    This 1968 television show was the predecessor of the BBC “A Ghost Story for Christmas” series. Based on a story by M.R. James, Professor Parkins (beautifully played by Micahel Hordern) finds an old whistle while perambulating through a coastal graveyard during a holiday respite. A total skeptic, the results of playing the artifact threaten his sanity. A very Lovecraftian movie that wasn’t authored by him.

  • Cast a Deadly Spell

    Film

    In an alternate 1948 Los Angeles, everybody uses magic. Everyone except for that hard-boiled, chain-smoking, mechanical-rationalist dick H. Phillip Lovecraft, played by Fred Ward.Cast a Deadly Spell is an HBO cable journey into the pulp side of H.P. Lovecraft and the dark side of Bewitched. It’s a stylish world with a smart script by Joseph Dougherty, sleek direction by Martin Campbell, and sweet production by Gale Anne Hurd. In this L.A., magic is the way of the future and cheap hoods in expensive suits are master sorcerers.

  • The Whisperer in Darkness

    Film

    Celebrated author H.P. Lovecraft’s classic tale of alien horror bursts onto the screen in the style of the classic horror films of the 1930s. Folklore professor Albert Wilmarth investigates legends of strange creatures in the most remote hills of Vermont. His inquiry reveals a terrifying glimpse of the truth that lurks behind the legends. The Whisperer in Darkness returns us to the golden age of movies for a thrilling adventure of supernatural horror. Filmed on location in New England in Mythoscope™ by the H.P.

  • Die Farbe (The Colour)

    Film

    Arkham, 1975: Jonathan Davis' father has disappeared. His tracks lead to Germany, to the Swabian-Franconian Forest where he was stationed after the Second World War. Jonathan sets out to find him and bring him home, but deep in the woods he discovers a dark mystery from the past. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short novel "The Colour Out of Space".

  • Shadow of the Unnamable

    Film

    Set in New England in the late 1920s, two friends Randolph Carter and Joel Manton spend a sunny autumn afternoon in a remote 17th century cemetery. An argument arises, concerning the horror stories written by Carter especially one story that draws Manton's sarcasm. It's centered around a creature so horrifying, that it cannot be named or described: the Unnamable... Manton, as a schoolteacher and firm believer in science, can`t imagine anything that could be truly unnamable. Encouraged by the atmosphere of the old burial ground Carter tells his friend about the origin of the story.

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