I know there are a lot of fellow H.P. Lovecraft fans out there, if you enjoy Lovecraft and Cthulu and live on the West coast, then I have a really cool event for you!
Plan on attending the H.P. Lovecraft film festival and Cthulu Con on May 3-5, 2013 in Portland, Oregon at the Hollywood Theater.
From The Press Release
A fan of H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulu? Would like to meet fellow Cthulu-lovers? Then Cthulu Con is for you!
The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival promotes the works of H.P. Lovecraft, literary horror, and weird tales through the cinematic adaptations by professional and amateur filmmakers. The festival was founded in 1995 by Andrew Migliore in the hope that H.P. Lovecraft would be rightly recognized as a master of gothic horror and his work more faithfully adapted to film and television.
There will be H.P. Lovecraft inspired film screenings and some very special guests.
Special guests include:
Brian Yuzna, he has never been very far from the works of H.P. Lovecraft. He directed Bride of Re-Animator, Beyond Re-Animator, and the anthology film Necronomicon: Book of the Dead, and also produced the original fan-favorite and cult classic Re-Animator and its spiritual counterpart From Beyond. More recently, he directed the Lovecraftian Beneath Still Waters in 2005 and his latest, Amphibious: Creature of the Deep was released in 2010.
Sandy Peterson, who is a well-known game designer and horror personality. He got his start in gaming in 1981, when he wrote the cult roleplaying game Call of Cthulhu, which has been translated into many languages and is still played world-wide. He helped develop dozens of supplements for the game, and also worked on other roleplaying works.
Robert M. Price, a fan of H.P. Lovecraft since the Lancer paperback collections of 1967 appeared, began writing scholarly articles ands humorous pieces on HPL and the Cthulhu Mythos in 1981. His celebrated semi-pro zine Crypt of Cthulhu began as a quarterly fanzine for the Esoteric Order of Dagon Amateur Press Association in 1981 and made it to 109 issues. In 1990 he began editing Mythos anthologies for Fedogan & Bremer and Chaosium, Inc. and still does! His fiction has been collected in Blasphemies and Revelations. Centipede Books will soon be issuing his five-volume annotated edition of the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.
And many more special guests!
Film Screenings will include:
- Beyond Re-Animator
- John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness
- La Herencia Valdemar (The Valdemar Legacy)
- La Sombra Prohibida (The Forbidden Shadow)
- Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut
- Solomon Kane
- The Thing on the Doorstep
For more information, check out the H.P. Lovecraft & Cthulu Con Official Website and Official Facebook Page!
