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!

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Portland Horror Film Festival 2019

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Are you a fan of independent horror films? Check out our sister festival, Portland Horror Film Festival™, also at the Hollywood Theatre! Showcasing tomorrow's masters of horror, Portland Horror Film Festival is Portland's premiere all-genre horror festival. If you love the short films at HPLFF, Portland Horror brings the same high quality and smart independent films, but from all genres of horror; everything from folk horror to the undead to stalkers to occult horror and much more.

Victoria Price - Guest of Honor

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Vincent Price has long been a beloved actor in the horror genre, and starred in several very Lovecraftian films, including Roger Corman's The Haunted Palace(based on HPL's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward), Diary of a Madman (based on Guy De Maupassant's "The Horla"), and even portrayed the sorcerer John Carnby in Night Gallery's adaptation of Clark Ashton Smith's "The Return of The Sorcerer." This year, we welcome his daughter Victoria Price as our guest of honor.

Short Film Block 1

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Main short film screenings with filmmaker Q&As will take place at the RISD Metcalf auditorium, with auxiliary showings at the smaller AS220 Black Box theater downtown. 

Short Film Block 2

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Main short film block screenings with visiting filmmaker Q&A will take place at the RISD Metcalf auditorium in the Chace Center at 20 N. Main St., with auxiliary showings at the smaller AS220 Black Box theater downtown.

Short Film Block 3

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Main short film block screenings will take place at the RISD Metcalf auditorium in the Chace Center at 20 N. Main St., with auxiliary showings at the smaller AS220 Black Box theater downtown.

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.

Lovecraft After Dark - Midnight movie adult-only short films

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Don't miss this one-night-only screening of R-rated Lovecraftian short films that will titillate and horrify you! For your protection, this will be a secret screening - to find out what's playing, you'll just have to show up - of some of the racier short films of years past at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Adults-only please! Show starts at Midnight (we listed it as 11:55pm, so that it's clearer that it takes place the evening of Friday, August 23rd, but the show starts at Midnight).

The Pickman Model

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What's the secret behind Richard Pickman's unearthly art? Join Pickman as he walks you through his three-part model to artistic success!

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