Welcome, fearless viewer, to Lovecraftian, a season of films we found scrawled on a post-it note in the back of a Necronomicon holding open a fire exit at the Miskatonic University. All within are based on or take inspiration from the Rhode Island writer who was christened “Howard Phillips” - but is known across the cosmos by genre lovers as “H.P.” Lovecraft.
If it’s gothic horror, fantasy and/or science-fiction stories that will fill you full of cosmic dread and the sense that ordinary life is but a thin shell over a reality so alien and abstract that merely contemplating it will damage your sanity, then you’ve come to the right place!
1988 • United States • Directed by Jean-Paul Ouellette
College students from Miskatonic University who retreat to an early 18th-century mansion for a weekend of lust are stalked by a fatalistic female in this horror film taken from a story by H.P. Lovecraft. The demon delights in tearing the lim...
1994 • United States • Directed by C. Courtney Joyner
The town of Leffert's Corners has been plagued by unearthly beings for decades, and now there are only a few people left, including the local priest and a woman traumatized by the death of her sister. But when small-time thief John Martense t...
1995 • United States • Directed by Stuart Gordon
John (Jeffrey Combs), Susan (Barbara Crampton) and their daughter come face to face with terror when they travel to Italy to move into a castle they've inherited. They soon discover it is haunted by a relentless blood-thirsty creature. When mutila...
All aboard! The combined spirits of H.P. Lovecraft, early Sam Raimi and Mystery Science Theater 3000 inhabit this action-packed tale of nautical derring-do and monster mayhem - winner of the Audience Award for Best International Feature at the 2019 Fantasia Film Festival. On the shores of Lake Mi...
1985 · United States · Directed by Stuart Gordon
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
The success of Stuart Gordon’s hit horror-comedy Re-Animator meant that a sequel was all but inevitable. The resulting follow-up, Bride of Re-Animator – this time helmed by director Brian Yuzna (Society, Return of the Living Dead III) – would prove that there was a good deal more life (and death)...
