World Premiere
Three classic Lovecraft tales brought to life through puppets and miniatures:
The Picture in The House
A traveler seeks shelter from a sudden storm in a decaying old house. In the living room of the apparently abandoned house, he finds a weird old book entitled "The Kingdom of Congo." What secrets does it hold?
The Dunwich Horror
Awakened in the middle of the night by the snarls and barks of his watchdog, a University professor makes a grim and disturbing discovery in his library. Will he be able to thwart the plans of the degenerate Whateley clan?
An experimental surgeon in the 1940’s develops a new life support device, one that promises to maintain the health of the human brain no matter what condition the body is in. Eager to prove the worth of his research, he persuades a terminally ill colleague, Professor Julian Maxwell, to become his test subject.
Eastern Front 1942: As bombs drop and the fighting closes in, Dr. Herbert West (Derek Meinecke) and his assistant (Justin Tacchi) work in a makeshift basement laboratory to re-animate the rotting corpse of a Waffen SS Soldier (Conor Timmis)... What could go wrong?
Makeup-Fx by Norman Bryn (Cloverfield).
Late one night, a young female college student finds herself home alone. A phone conversation with a friend devolves into an argument about the existence of God and the possibility of an afterlife. The young woman is a vehement atheist and professes that she neither wants nor needs eternal life. She has no need for the 'fairy tale' of a loving god. In fact, she declares, oblivion would be heaven enough for her. But when the darkness around her sinks inward and her faith is tested, can she really maintain such convictions?
A man finds the remains of a friend who has descended into madness while attempting to convey a dark secret through his art. He reads the dead man's final letter, and learns of things too horrible to be true.
In a gloomy cellar an evil man plans to open a portal to another world. His research in a dark tome has revealed what he needs to do to open the gateway. He has acquired the mystical object needed to breach the threshold and he has obtained a sacrifice to offer to the dark gods. Now, nothing can go wrong….
A young man nervously tapes his statement about how he sneaked into a small cabin in the woods and made a grisly and horrifying discovery. Just as he's about to finish his story, he's interrupted by an unexpected and unwelcome visitor.
Music video for the song 'H.P. Lovecraft' by Cockfight Club, an industrial rock band from Tupelo, Mississippi.
Enter the surreal world of Cthulhu, and other creations and characters from the imagination of one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century, H.P. Lovecraft.
During a bout of insomnia the artist Pickman discovers the diary of his eccentric great uncle. Discoveries within the diary lead Pickman on a maddening search for the embodiment of true horror. His obsession leads him to the lair of one who is willing to feed his dark desire... for a price. The Faustian conclusion brings the artist's work to darkness and the subject, at last, to horrible light.
When fate brings two souls together, sometimes they cannot be torn apart- even after death. On a fateful day in the park, a lonely man meets Morella, a beautiful yet singularly bewitching woman. And from their first meeting their souls become inseperable, their lives bound together forever. Morella is a woman of great intelligence and powers of the mind, she spends her days studying the occult and reading to the man from her collection of ancient texts.
