14th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Filim Festival Events
Posted by dominie in Events, News on September 18th, 2008
The 14th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and Cthulhu-Con at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon is happening on October 3-4-5, 2008. The official website as announced a tentative lineup of events (outlined below) including Guest of Honor Brian Lumley Reading and Mike Mignola Q&A Panel. Don’t miss this event if you can help it!
The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival has been known for its promotion of the best in literary horror and weird tales from such greats as H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert W. Chambers, and many more through the cinematic adaptations by professional and amateur filmmakers. Founded in 1995, the festival is on a mission to properly recognize H.P. Lovecraft as a master of gothic horror and to encourage that his work be more faithfully adapted to film and television. Yes, we definitely need more of this encouragement!
Events:
A Pleasing Terror
The 2008 HPLFF is proud to present the critically acclaimed one-man show performed by Robert Lloyd Parry showcasing the atmospheric retelling of two of the earliest and greatest tales by M R James - the master of the English ghost story.
In Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook, a young Cambridge antiquary discovers the devil in the details of an old book in a medieval town in the French Pyrenees. In The Mezzotint a ghoulish revenge is enacted within a work of art, before the helpless eyes of a museum curator in Oxford . . .
Brian Lumley Reading House of Cthulhu
Come join us for an eldritch experience as Brian Lumley reads House of Cthulhu and then fields some Q&A.
Dragon’s Wedding Bells
Features a real live wedding (our fifth)! The Festival has become a true community of friends who eagerly wait out the year to see one another again, and sometimes among such kindred spirits deeper bonds form. Last year saw our friend Mars, maestro of the macabre, make the acquaintance of Victoria Price, daughter of Lovecraft scholar Robert M. Price. This year the two are getting married—right here at center stage! Dr. Price himself will be performing the ceremony, following a Lovecraftian order of service of his own devising.
Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets is a rock band from British Columbia who’s main body of music consists largely of often tongue-in-cheek homages to the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Even the band’s name is drawn from a phrase in Lovecraft’s story The Tomb. Concert is Saturday Night 12:30am at Tony Starlight’s (3 blocks from the theater).
Meet Mike Mignola – Hellboy Panel
Meet the creator behind the successful Hellboy character. Here is your chance to ask Mike those questions you always feared to know the answers to. Mike will also be joined by Dark Horse editor Scott Allie and Rue Morgue editor Jovanka Vuckovic.
Robert E. Howard Panel: Solomon Kane, Conan, Oh My
Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane is being made into a comic book series from Dark Horse (and is also being turned into a movie).
Dark Horse’s original Conan editor, Scott Allie, writes the series, with art by Mario Guevara and Dave Stewart, who reinvents his revolutionary color technique from Conan.
Come join us Saturday afternoon as Dark Horse’s Scott Allie leads a Q&A panel discussing Solomon Kane, the 16th century puritan who wanders the earth in order to vanquish evil in all its forms.
