HPLFF-2011-LA
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Roughly 500 attendees.
Screenplay competition:
Runner up = "Death Wind" By Travis Herrmann & Jim Pinto
Winner = "The Old Man and the Box" by William Barnett
Short Film competition (Judged by Guillermo del Toro, video to come):
Runner up = "Black Goat" by Joseph Nanni
Winner (tie) = "Static Aeons" by Gib Patterson
"Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven" by Christopher Saphire & Don Thiel III Read more
Sean writes, produces and directs for screen, audio and theatre. In 1985 with collaborator Andrew Leman, he co-founded the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society (“HPLHS” http://www.cthulhulives.org). Sean wrote the adaptation of Lovecraft’s celebrated short-story The Call of Cthulhu as a silent film and co-produced it for the HPLHS. Read more
From MCA/Universal Pictures International Spain, this is the second part of the "The Valdemar Legacy", directed by José Luis Alemán. An action piece with cameos by Lovecraft and one of his greatest creations, the Great Cthulhu!
Stephen Blackehart was trained in England at the prestigious London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and in New York by legendary teacher Uta Hagen. Despite countless New York & London stage performances, he became prominent as a cult film actor, performing in such B-Movie classics as Tromeo & Juliet, The Land that Time Forgot, Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, and many others. Read more
Friday, Sep. 16
5pm - 7pm = VIP reception at Grand Vision Annex (VIP ticket required)
Open theatre doors @ 7pm
Opening remarks, intros, raffle
7:30 – 8:15 = Whistle and I’ll Come to You
break
8:20 – 10:00 = The Haunted Palace
Corman Award, raffle
10:10 – midnight = Berkeley Square w/ intro
Midnight to 1am - after party at Whale & Ale Pub
Saturday, Sep. 17
2-4pm Author reading/discussion at Williams Book Store: Cody Goodfellow, Jenna Pitman, Ted Grau, Michael Tice, C. Courtney Joyner, Denise Dumars
Open theatre doors @4pm
intro/raffle Read more
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. Read more
A resolutely obscure publisher of modern cosmic horror, Perilous Press has released a handful of quality limited edition illustrated hardcover and affordable trade paperback editions of Mythos fiction by Michael Shea, Brian Stableford and David Conyers. Read more
STRANGE AEONS MAGAZINE
Strange Aeons has been described as the unholy love child of Heavy Metal and Weird Tales magazines. Packed with B&W and Color comics, game scenarios, book reviews and short fiction by the likes of Cody Goodfellow, Clay MacLeod Chapman, S.G. Browne, Angel Leigh McCoy, Gina Ranalli Robert M. Price and Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. Amazing Stories. Bizarre Adventures. Weird Tales. Strange Aeons! www.strange-aeons.com Read more
Peter Allas was born in Chicago and raised in NYC where he acquired his love for acting. After studying at Boston U. & Fordham at Lincoln Center he burst on to the NY theatre scene as “Cliff” in “The Woolgatherer” by William Mastrosimone. Recently he received a 2010 Helen Hayes Nomination (DC Tony 's) for his performance as “Teach” in “American Buffalo” by David Mamet. Read more
