Feature Films and Lovecraft Movies
Feature films showing at LA and Portland 2011 festivals
Arkham, 1975: Jonathan Davis' father has disappeared. His tracks lead to Germany, to the Swabian-Franconian Forest where he was stationed after the Second World War. Jonathan sets out to find him and bring him home, but deep in the woods he discovers a dark mystery from the past. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short novel "The Colour Out of Space".
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 young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors. This was for its time one of Lovecraft's favorite movies and an inspiration for his story The Shadow Out of Time. Lovecraft saw this film four times in late 1933. Lovecraft himself had written a story on this very theme himslef, the unpublished The Case of Charles Dexter Ward in 1927. Read more
In an alternate 1948 Los Angeles, everybody uses magic. Everyone except for that hard-boiled, chain-smoking, mechanical-rationalist dick H. Phillip Lovecraft, played by Fred Ward. 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!
With a script by Charles Beaumont and additional dialogue by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Vincent Price, “The Haunted Palace is a seminal film for Lovecraft lovers: it is the first major motion picture to introduce HPL’s creation—the Necronomicon, and those cosmic abominations Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth—to a general audience. HPL’s obsession with the past is clearly presented, and in a heartfelt passage at the end of the film, so is his belief that mankind is a minor species adrift in a malevolent universe.” —From The Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H.P. 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
