Win Tickets ($50): 16th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival Keeps Portland Weird | Hollywood Theater
September 21, 2011 — PDXPIPELINEPortland’s Halloween event season is officially underway! We have a pair of FULL weekend passes ($40-$50!) to give out for Portland’s H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival next wekend at Hollywood Theater. To win, comment on this post why you would like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed on Monday, September 26th.
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From our sponsors:
H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival
Friday, September 30th & Saturday, October 1, 2011
Hollywood Theatre | 4122 Northeast Sandy Boulevard
Portland, OR 97212-5336 | (503) 281-4215
Tickets/More info: www.hplfilmfestival.com | Facebook Event
Single night passes for Friday or Saturday are $15 at the door, $12 in advance, two-night passes are $25 at the door, $20 in advance.
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H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon Keeps Portland Weird
The 16th annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival (HPLFF) and CthulhuCon returns to the Hollywood Theatre at 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. September 30th - October 1st. This frighteningly entertaining event celebrates film and literature influenced by the master of cosmic horror, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, with two nights of horror, fantasy, and science fiction.
“I look forward to the H.P. Lovecraft Festival all year,” said Dark Horse Senior Managing Editor Scott Allie. “It’s a great time for everyone who loves horror–the actually strange, scary stuff–to load up on hard-to-find film, fiction, comics, and other works of art. The Fest helps keep Portland weird.”
Friday night 9/30, HPLFF is proud to present the Portland-area premier of The Whisperer in Darkness, the exciting follow up to the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's award-winning film, The Call of Cthulhu. Saturday night 10/1, we are thrilled to bring you Die Farbe, a German adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's weird tale, The Colour Out of Space.
Short films include Call of Nature, Doppelganger, Flush With Fear, Dirty Silverware, Edgar Allan Poe's ¬ËœThe Raven', Window Into Time, Haselwurm, Black Goat, Static Aeons, Shadow of the Unnamable, The Ritual, Idol Worship, and Apartment Eleven.
Sigh Co. Graphics owners, Brian and Gwen Callahan have taken the reins from festival founder, Andrew Migliore. ¬Å“The plan is to move the full three day festival to mid-May. We didn't want to leave everyone hanging until then, so we decided there needed to be a festival in 2011. This one is going to be back to basics, a block of short films and one feature each night. The quality of film submissions just keeps getting better, so we're really excited about this year's selections!¬Â
Doors open at 6 p.m. Friday, September 30th and 6:30 p.m. Saturday, October 1.
Prior to the films both days, join us for a meet & greet with guests and film makers at Magnolia's Corner Wine Bar from 4-6 pm. After the films on both Friday and Saturday nights, attendees will retire to Tony Starlight's Supper Club and Lounge for special Lovecraftian beverages and a chance to mingle with film makers and friends.
For more information and tickets, go to www.hplfilmfestival.com
September 21, 2011 at 22:03
This should be on Halloween. Oh ma gawd.
September 21, 2011 at 22:29
I would love to see all the eldritch horrors birthing from the sepulchral miasma.
September 21, 2011 at 22:36
1) 9/30 is my b-day. Yay! 2) my blog could use the content. :) 3) I geek out and take photos like this when I’m at the theater: http://ow.ly/6BpQt
September 21, 2011 at 23:04
Oh, yes, PLEASE!!! I’d *love* to go – so would sock Chthulu! :oD
September 21, 2011 at 23:04
I would like to attend because I can’t seem to get the stories out of my head.
September 21, 2011 at 23:18
OMGZ. I haven’t been able to make it to ANY of Portland’s awesome film festivals and I think this one would be perfect to start out with. Would love to win tickets so I can surprise my boyfriend who would actually want to leave his video games at home to attend this festival!!!
September 22, 2011 at 00:32
Why do I want to go? I’d love to tell you, but there are some things that Man Was Not Meant To Know! Just chalk it up to The Stars Being Right. Or maybe because I secretly want to be a Deep One.
September 22, 2011 at 06:40
I would love to attend this!! It is something I have never had the opportunity to do before and it sounds absolutely fabulous@!
September 22, 2011 at 10:30
I would love to check this out. Lovecraft for the weekend?>YES PLEASE!!
September 22, 2011 at 11:57
There is nothing weird about this film festival! Everyone show learn about the Necronomicon. It’s like the Bible. But different. Way different.
September 22, 2011 at 12:26
H.P.Lovecraft!!!! I would LOVE LOVE LOVE these tickets! By far the most creative author since Edgar Allen Poe. Film festival!! sign me up!
September 22, 2011 at 12:30
This would definitely make a great gift for a horror fan like my husband. *raises hand* ME, me!!!!
September 22, 2011 at 12:57
I live close by and love Lovecraft. Hook me up.
September 22, 2011 at 13:06
I love horror movies & being scared in/of the dark! Lovecraft has inspired some of the best out there. Anything to draw out the Halloween fun times is more than welcome. Please & thank you!
September 22, 2011 at 16:59
This is my 20-something daughter’s birthday (Sept 30th) and would love to win these tix and take her! So glad to see this event is back!
September 22, 2011 at 17:33
Because Portland is so weird, this festival almost seems normal…
September 22, 2011 at 17:36
My sweetie has wanted to introduce me to the weirdness that is Lovecraft for as long as we’ve been together. This would be an awesome introduction for me and a real treat for him as well.
September 22, 2011 at 17:41
What a great opportunity to introduce my boyfriend to H.P. Lovecraft! I’ll take this great opportunity and run screaming! ;)
September 22, 2011 at 17:47
This would be the perfect birthday present for a special (grown-up) kid.
September 22, 2011 at 17:55
I would love to go! Pick me :)
September 22, 2011 at 18:30
Love the HPLfest – and was a bit heartbroken when they moved to LA. Seems like the Pacific NW is a better setting for all things weird and cosmic.
September 22, 2011 at 18:40
The perfect way to kick off my 31 Days of Halloween!
September 22, 2011 at 19:04
My dad and I watched sci fi horrors every friday night when i was growing up! I love everything about the literature and film of this mysteriously sinister genre and winning these tickets would make my year.
September 22, 2011 at 19:10
This event sounds incredible and scary. Lovecraft always resinates with me long after!
September 22, 2011 at 19:11
This is the only way I’m getting there!!!!
September 22, 2011 at 19:26
My husband of 9 years loves Lovecraft. We split up last September but reunited in June & are doing great, mostly because of his efforts. This would be an enjoyable weekend for the 2 of us that we haven’t had the money for in many years. Thanks!
September 22, 2011 at 19:38
I want these tickets!! So bad!
September 22, 2011 at 19:47
What!? I didn’t know that Cthulhu came from this… I learned about Cthulhu on South Park, and now I’m really curious. Being into Sci-Fi, the Universe outside of Earth, etc., we’d love to attend.
September 22, 2011 at 20:02
Huge Lovecraft fan–this sounds amazing!!!
September 22, 2011 at 20:09
I can see only non-Euclidian geometry.
September 22, 2011 at 22:05
growing up I would watch scary movies by myself in the dark. when they were over I would run down the hallway past the open door to the basement and jump onto my bed…just in case.
I would love tickets!!!
September 22, 2011 at 22:25
I would love to take my girl to this, im sure that she has never seen anything like this before
September 22, 2011 at 22:25
Because this will be EPIC. Yes. just yes.
September 22, 2011 at 22:48
My girl friend loves movies, but since she is constipated lately, I would love to win the tickets so I can have Lovecraft can scare the crap out of her:) Thanks for free tix in the past!
September 22, 2011 at 23:31
i won’t pretend to be the biggest lovecraft fan about, nor much of one, really. but in early summer, i came across a girl, isabel, from mexico city who certainly is one of his most reverent fans. we hit the lovecraft bar over on grand and had some truly great conversations and laughs in her short stint here in p-town. since, we’ve kept in touch via email. it’d be a nice way to relate and relay to her back in mexico a bit of what she holds dear, to win these tix and catch some of the festival.
September 23, 2011 at 00:10
H.P. Lovecraft- One of my favourite authors ever.
September 23, 2011 at 07:13
pick me I am weird! I live in Portland! pick me pick me
September 23, 2011 at 09:14
My bf has no clue who Lovecraft is and needs to be educated!!! Me please!!!!!
September 23, 2011 at 09:15
Shlob shlob shlob (sound of scary tentacle-ly monster sliming across floor) OH MY GOD NOOoooo!!! (sound of scared half-naked woman seeing monster) SHLOP! CRUNCH! CRUNCH! (sound of woman eating monster) HA! Fooled you, huh??
September 23, 2011 at 09:17
Just read my first Lovecraft – At the Mountains of Madness – I could not put it down….
September 23, 2011 at 09:54
I’d love to go! Pick me! Pick me!
September 23, 2011 at 10:03
oh yes, please !
September 23, 2011 at 10:12
OMG- Love H.P. and would love the opportunity to be freaked out this weekend… Please and thank you
September 23, 2011 at 11:02
I have a date this weekend with my high school sweetheart! We have decided on dinner, but the movie part is still up in the air! This might be just the ticket!
September 23, 2011 at 11:47
Cthulhu mythos rocks! I need to see how Cthulhu is depicted so I can create a costume
September 23, 2011 at 11:50
Horror, fantasy and science fiction! That’s why I’d love to win these tickets.
September 23, 2011 at 12:39
GO GO GADGET TICKETS!
September 23, 2011 at 13:44
I seek the necronomicron. This seems like the place to start.
September 23, 2011 at 13:54
Got into a conversation with an girl while volunteering for the T:BA:11 festival last week… She brought this festival up and then said “but I’ve never read any Lovecraft”… I basically gave her a 5 minute explanation of his mythos and now she and her friends are going. I don’t have my tickets yet, and no good deed should go unpunished.
September 23, 2011 at 18:04
Horror, sci fi and fantasy in one place? I’d love to win those tickets please.
September 23, 2011 at 21:24
This would be so intensely cool!! I wanna goooooo
September 23, 2011 at 22:09
I want to go because the darkest dreams are always the greatest and there’s nothing like having a similarly appreciative audience to share it with.
September 24, 2011 at 11:41
My boyfriend and I would love to go to this. His 30th birthday is Sept. 29, so this would be a great belated bday gift for him…
September 24, 2011 at 14:07
There is no question this is the place to be next weekend. Unfortunately, winning tickets is the only way I’ll be able to go, so I am hoping you draw my name!
September 24, 2011 at 17:04
I like cholula with my cthulhu!
September 25, 2011 at 10:14
HP DOESN’T mean Hewlett-Packard!! Would loooooove to go this festival. Please, please, please.
September 25, 2011 at 12:50
After all the effort and begging, I’ve finally convinced my boyfriend of the magic that is HP. Finally a fan and this would just be awesome :)
September 25, 2011 at 14:41
FTW!!!
These tickets would go to my (adult) children who are both Lovecraft fans.
Thanks!
September 25, 2011 at 17:31
A polyphonic symphony of technicolor merriment,
An enthralling jungle of ideasmanship and whit,
My joy to go like dimensions beyond measurement,
To the fest I go, hell bent or heavensent.
Nostalgia is the opiate of the complacent.
September 25, 2011 at 20:19
!!!!!
September 25, 2011 at 22:53
I want to go to this so badly, I adore HPL’s craziness.
September 26, 2011 at 21:12
The scent of Halloween is in the air, spooky, kooky and sweet.
September 27, 2011 at 11:42
Best time of the year and H.P. is friggin’ fantastic!
September 27, 2011 at 17:27
Hook a brother up! Gotta love HP
September 27, 2011 at 18:23
I <3 Lovecraft. Hook a practitioner up!
September 28, 2011 at 14:20
because I just watched a Joan Rivers documentary
September 28, 2011 at 15:06
As Lovecraft Lovin’ transplants to Portland, we’ve been awaiting this event. Winning tix would rock!
September 29, 2011 at 17:39
I’d love to go this!!! My wife and I both love H.P.!
October 18, 2011 at 07:06
Oh, yeah! Bring on the horror!