Lovecraft, Fear of the Unknown

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Lovecraft's Fear of the Unknown is a 2008 documentary film that looks at the life, work and mind behind the Cthulhu Mythos.

James Knouse

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James Knouse is a director for the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® San Pedro, Owner of LoveCraft Wines and Walking Kind of Bird Productions. When not juggling the 3 above you can find him tending to his wicked garden where he grows his legendary peppers, witchy herbs and carnivorous plants.

Travel

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The Warner Grand Theatre is a lavish, art-deco theater opened to the public on January 20, 1931 during the magical decades for films in the 1920s and 1930s. Jack Warner called it "The Castle of Your Dreams." The Warner Grand Theatre was designed by architect B. Marcus Priteca and interior designer A.T. Heinsbergen. Mr. Priteca designed three lavish art-deco palaces which were located in San Pedro, Beverly Hills, and Huntington Park.

Skinner

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Skinner is a self-taught artist living in Oakland, California who has meticulously crafted a balance of extraordinary mural work, bizarre and antagonistic installations while maintaining a prolific commercial career. Influenced by 80’s pop culture, human struggle, myths and violence, dungeons and dragons and the heavy metal gods, Skinner’s mind is one of psycho social mayhem fueled by a calculated chaos. His work has been shown all over the world in various museums, universities and galleries.

Richard Stanley

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Richard Stanley made his feature film directing debut with 1990's acclaimed Hardware, starring Dylan McDermott and Fields of the Nephilim's frontman, Carl McCoy. His second feature, Dust Devil, was an unconventional story of an otherworldly serial killer in South Africa, and has a rabid cult following due to its striking visuals and beautiful landscape photography, plus its decidedly Weird taint.

Diane O'Bannon

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DIANE O’BANNON met her future husband Dan at USC, while he was in pre-production on Dark Star. Following a years-long, on-again off-again connection, Diane and Dan married in 1986, a union that lasted until his death in 2009.

Macabre Fantasy Radio Theater

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Macabre Fantasy Radio Theater is an audio drama in the style of "Old Time Radio" of the 1930’s/40’s featuring original adaptations of classic weird tales/horror stories performed with a full cast and live sound effects. Macabre Fantasy has been performing live audio dramas in the Los Angeles area at local film festivals and conventions since 2012.  Join us in reliving the glory days of radio as Macabre Fantasy brings to life these classic adventures! For more info and past shows join us at macabrefantasy.com

Invocation

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We come again "to that ancient sea town [San Pedro], where elders...commanded their sons to keep festival once every century [or year] that the memory of primal secrets might not be forgotten." Our intrepid leaders will properly christen the event with an opening Invocation led by your eldritch host Cody Goodfellow.

Author Readings, Panel and Book Signing

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The center of every film is the story. The stories from these practioners of weird cosmic horror will "demand from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life" for a few hours at least. If history proves correct The panel on Lovecraft at 125 will be insightful, inciting, definitive and heretical. Be sure to obtian one of the forbidden tomes, with inscription (photo copyright Todd Chicoine)

Short Films Block 2 (Transformations)

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  1.  Can it be that this land has actually spawned on screen; that human eyes have truly seen, as projected flash, what man has hitherto known only in febrile phantasy and tenuous legend ? [after HPL TSOI] See Films. Full film details in The Daily Lurker on site. remember The Resurrected screens Saturday May 2nd at 8pm.. Sunday films after breakfast at Crafted inlcluding The Otherworld

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