Guest of Honor F. Paul Wilson will open the festival with a talk about "HP & Me."
Join us for the Awards Presentation! Winners of each award category will be announced and presented with our exclusive Cthulhu Award Statue, custom made by the incomparable Joe Broers.
Awards are given for:
- Best Feature Film
- Best Short Film
- Best Adaptation
- Best Screenplay
- Audience Choice
- Pickman's Apprentice
- Lovecraft Under the Gun winner
Petersen Games is sending some emissaries of madness to run Cthulhu Wars games and demos!
EOD Center will be set up for Games during these hours:
- Friday 7:00-10:00 pm
- Saturday 12:00-7:00 pm
- Sunday 3:00-7:00 pm
The World Premiere of THEY REMAIN, will take place at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival® at 7:00PM on Saturday, October 7th, with an encore screening on Sunday, October 8th.
Tickets are on sale now for the 22nd Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival®, October 6-8th! This year’s lineup includes more than 40 independent short and feature films from around the world, hours of panel discussions, author readings, gaming, live events, and special guests. Buy them in person at their box office or online.
Tim Uren (Chuck from Chuck and Dexter) presents a half-hour sketch comedy, celebrating weird fiction and the genre's even weirder fans. Never before has a performer so antediluvian presented a comedy so cyclopean!
Chance White was born in Nashville, TN, the fifth son of music industry legend Bergen White. The son of a musician and an artist, White gravitated towards film at an early age, inspired by films like Star Wars, ET, Indiana Jones, and later the work of Ridley Scott and Stanley Kubrick. As a child White directed his own action films with action figures and drew his own comic books, spending hours dreaming of telling his own stories. White moved to Atlanta in 1997 to study Computer Animation and has resided there since as a Director, Cinematographer, Editor and Animator.
Whitney Ellis, was raised in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas. At a very young age she discovered her affinity for the visual arts when she picked up her father’s Pentax SLR camera and took a picture. In 2011, she graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a BA in Film Studies and a BFA in Film & Video Production. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York where she works as a full-time TV producer and runs her own production company. She plans to make her first feature film in 2018.
A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant. Only the girl's brother and a handsome doctor stand in her way. Barbara Steele stars in Mario Bava's directorial debut. Black Sunday was considered unusually gruesome, and was banned in the UK until 1968 because of its violence. In the US, some of the gore was censored in-house by distributor American International Pictures before its theatrical release.