The homepage of the HPL Film Festival(s) kindly provides us with a programme for the upcoming movies and shorts.
Please find more information about each movie and the Festival via the provided links.
Portland 2012 short films
A comedy/horror short about an H.P. Lovecraft fan boy who buys a book online that he thinks will help him summon a real Cthulhu monster.
Artist Mike Dubisch engages in quick sketching magic for the split screen camera. Shot in one take, with music courtesy of Mars.
A cursed statue of the God Yig is found in Arizona by an Archeologist, he's killed, and the statue falls into the hands of his friend who must get rid of it to break the curse.
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A punk girl, Alyce, travels through a David Lynch/Maya Deren adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft short story. She travels through a strange land with stranger inhabitants to find a mysterious violin player who holds too many secrets for this new world.
Night falls, shadows creep out, and the time has come for little Timmy to go to bed. But can he brave the ominous gaze of his closet door?
The Black Pharaoh runs amok, accompanied by a bristling score of Swedish Death Metal. Footage cut from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's The Whisperer in Darkness is reborn in the hands of the HPLHS' Mike Dalager.
The Captured Bird is a darkly poetic fable that begins with a little girl drawing figures of people with chalk on the cement of a playground. She takes notice of an unusual crack in the pavement that is seeping a mysterious black fluid, which she follows to an ominous mansion. Inside, she encounters several bizarre phenomena, including walls that bleed black and tentacles that emerge from the ceiling to touch her. She then witnesses the birth of five terrifying supernatural beings that threaten the existence of her world.
What happens when you insist on using your phone in the theater? Noisy clowns will find you!
Chompers is a shape-changing monster which disguises itself as something round, waiting for its prey to slip an appendage into its mouth. In the wild, it took the shape of hollowed out logs and stumps. In suburbia, its found trashcans, cookie jars, coffee cups, and so much more.
It gets bigger and better at camouflage as it eats. Read more
Sidney Sanders is a is a man with a new piano and a loving wife, but an other worldly melody pulls him into a bizarre but strangely familiar world.
Artist Mike Dubisch engages in quick sketching magic for the split screen camera. Shot in one take, with music courtesy of Mars.
Want to make selling your soul quick and easy? Cultist Co (Voted the 2012 "Supplier of the Apocalypse") has you covered!
Peerless science student Walter Gilman meets his match in Eve Walpurgis and promptly falls in love. But when Eve is taken by an extra dimensional terror, Walter is forced to summon a demon of his own: the anachronistic Doctor Glamour! An outrageous sci-fi musical comedy with psychedelic special effects, sexy sharp humor and a slew of hard hitting rock numbers.
A homeless mime, down on his luck, discovers a secret from his past that gives his talents a disturbing and supernatural twist.
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This half-hour short, starring Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, and David Warner was to be part of the horror anthology Pulse Pounders, which never saw the light of day. After decades of languishing in the vault, attendees of the Los Angeles festival will be blessed with a sneak preview look at this forgotten gem weeks before it's released on DVD, courtesy of Full Moon Horror and Charles Band.
A S.W.A.T. team is called into action to respond to a missing police offer in the dead of night. What originally seemed like a routine call has left a grizzly scene inside a home, and the officers find more than their training prepared them for. "Feed A" is a marriage between horror/sci-fi/and the found footage genre. Will they get out of this house alive, or worse, find the truth of the terrible events that were taking place before they arrived?
Abigail Thelma wishes desperately to speak to her dead father from the world of the living. She begins a journey to seek out a fortune telling gypsy with disastrous consequences.
GAMMA is a story of urban regeneration in a nuclear irradiated future. GAMMA, a new urban developer proposes to regenerate the cities back into civilisation. GAMMA sets out to stabilise the atomic mistakes of yesteryear for the re-inhabitation of future generations. Using its patented "Nuke-Root" technology; part fungi, part mollusk, GAMMA intends to soak up the radiation and remove it from the irradiated cities, rebuilding them in the process. Read more
In the waters of a distant island there lurks a giant squid. When his mother disappears, young George Jones begins his hunt for the beast, and will risk everything to find the truth.
Doctor William Dyer may be the smartest theoretical physicist alive, but he has just blown it.
After a routine CERN experiment goes horribly wrong, Dyer has to get to the emergency data access facility he has installed in an abandoned building nearby.
A race against time to avoid unthinkable Armageddon turns into something else - a struggle with himself and his own guilt. Only now, he not alone.
Something older than time itself that has been waiting through the aeons for the chance to return.
And now, the door is open.
Cosmic imagery abounds in this piece set to the music of Ray Noble and his orchestra in honor of the 75th anniversary of the passing of H.P. Lovecraft.
The Music of Jo Hyeja is a cross-cultural adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Music of Erich Zann': a young student living in a ghetto on the edge of Seoul named Miju, encounters a mysterious upstairs neighbor, an elderly zither-player named Jo Hyeja whose bizarre musical performances fill the air each night.
A mysterious window in Mrs. Jo's lightless upper room beckons menacingly, calling Miju to the attic. Will she survive her brush with the ancient, macabre terrors summoned by a song that shatters the laws of music, sanity, and the very universe itself?
A man is visited in his dreams by terrifying creatures. A short adaptation of H P Lovecraft's poem, with stop-motion animated monsters.
The skeleton of a rat-monkey comes to life in a room full of cursed objects in this Gothic tale with a sci-fi twist. This is the 5th film in the award winning 'Chimerascope' series by MTV and SY FY channel station ID veteran, Aurelio Voltaire. Narrated by electro-Goth, New Wave icon, Gary Numan.
The story of Ken, who responds to an ad for a mail-order bride. He didn't expect that some assembly was required.
Following the break-up of Mystery Inc., the gang moves on with their lives by touring a nearby university, but the campus is terrorized by a mysterious creature known as Char Gar Gothakon, whose screams can destroy anything in its path. With the voices of Jeffrey Combs as "H.P. Hatecraft" and Harlan Ellison as Himself.
A man, suffering from a brain injury, tries to reconnect with his past by developing old film strips of pictures he doesn’t even remember.
Everything leads him to a strange gas station…where the man will face his worst nightmare.
An adaptation of H P Lovecraft's famous sci-fi story. The hero, an academic from Miskatonic University, Arkham, gradually goes mad as he starts to realize that his mind and body was kidnapped during a span of several years, and used by a strange alien race known as the Yith…
A barbershop quartet fears their moment out of the spotlight.(Shown in 3D!)
It was only a matter of time before mutant bugs from space invaded Portland, Oregon killing everything in their wake. A young woman rushes home to warn her husband. Will she get there in time?
An out-of-work father undergoes an experimental treatment to take care of his baby…with strange results.
An adaptation of the legendary writer H.P. Lovecraft's story by the same name which follows a young academic searching for the legend of the infamous snake god, Yig, but who finds a story more disturbing than anything she ever could have imagined.
A young boy discovers a corpse while biking in the woods, then faces unexpected and macabre consequences when he tries to bury it. Read more
Written by Michael Reaves, this is the first introduction of Cthulhu to the small screen, and a classic, landmark episode where the Ghostbusters must track down a stolen copy of the Necronomicon.
Robert Whipple accompanies his uncle, amateur ghost hunter Eli Whipple, as they investigate the uneasy history of the house on Benefit Street in Maelstrom Productions’ adaptation of Lovecraft’s short story.
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While studying the ecosystem of a lake, an ambitious science student discovers a strange and sinister artifact. Fascinated by it, he shows it to his professor, who immediately recognizes it as something dangerous. When the professor attempts to destroy the artifact, the student takes it and flees, studying it on his own. When it is stolen from him by a mysterious figure, the student must confront the horrifying nature of the artifact.
Engulfed by dark thoughts, she is forced into a tunnel to confront the creature who is waiting for her in the dark.
When moving into an old flat Katja and Andreas discover a mysterious old Chest left by the previous tenant. Soon Katja discovers what really is inside the sinister old circus prop—and becomes another victim of Vadim…
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