LOVECRAFT MOVIE SCREENINGS!
Below, you’ll find our list of films screening during the week of the convention.
ALL are WELCOME, space limiting – the movies are open to the general (non-convention-going) public at a low admission price, as listed. Convention three-day passholders get free access to the Thursday to Sunday films as part of their pass (please have your ticket with you), and day ticket holders get free access to the films showing that day.
All movies are generally hosted or attended by the filmmakers themselves, so there will be opportunities for some brief Q&A.
First come, first served!
OUR VENUES:
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Auditorium – 7 Canal Walk, Providence, 02903
Black Box Theater, AS220 – 95 Empire Street, Providence, 02903 – AS220 also has a full bar and a great little restaurant (Foo(d)) right next door. Maximum capacity is 100 people, so come early!
Here’s a google map laying out the walking routes around the Biltmore and Hotel Providence, to the RISD Auditorium and the Black Box theater: http://goo.gl/maps/E55Sd
Tuesday, August 20th – Lovecraft’s birthday!
7pm – Black Box Theater (95 Empire) – HP Lovecraft Historical Society’s modern-classic silent send-up, The Call of Cthulhu,” and selected Lovecraftian short films from our collection. $3 admission for all, drinks 21+
10pm – Black Box Theater (95 Empire) – “Psychedelic Lovecraft” – a collage of mind-melding movies compiled by our own Frank Difficult. $3 admission for all, drinks 21+
Wednesday, August 21st
8pm – Black Box Theater (95 Empire) – Short films: Transcendent, The Earth Rejects Him, The Shunned House, and Stay At Home Dad… $3 admission for all, drinks 21+
10pm – Black Box Theater (95 Empire) –-HP Lovecraft Film Festival Greatest Hits! A collection of the HPLFF’s most worshipped shorts from past years. $3 admission for all, drinks 21+
Thursday, August 22nd
4pm – Black Box Theater (95 Empire) –-HP Lovecraft Film Festival Greatest Hits! A collection of the HPLFF’s most worshipped shorts from past years. $3 admission for all, drinks 21+
8pm – RISD Auditorium (7 Canal Walk) – The Ancestor, a rare feature-length Lovecraft film by the late Dan O’Bannon (the writer for many famous films such as Alien and Total Recall) – this is a viewing of his personal much-improved version of the studio hack-job known as The Resurrected or Shatterbrain, based on the HPL story “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.” This is playing with a special convention test-screening of the short film Miskatonic University. $5 for the general public, free for convention-goers.
10pm – Black Box theater (95 Empire) – HP Lovecraft Historical Society’s The Whisperer in Darkness feature-length film, in the darkest theater in the world, hosted by the lads themselves. $3 admission for the general public, free for convention-goers, drinks 21+
Midnight – Black Box theater (95 Empire) – 10th anniversary screening of the epic animated Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath – a truly surreal experience beyond the wall of sleep! $3 for the general public, free for convention-goers.
Friday, August 23rd
5pm – Black Box Theater (95 Empire) – The haunting feature-length movie, The Thing on the Doorstep, paired with the short film The Curse of Yig. $3 admission for the general public, free for convention-passholders, drinks 21+
8pm – RISD Auditorium (7 Canal Walk) – A 35 mm print of Stuart Gordon’s rarely-screened DAGON, hosted by the director himself, and paired with the gorgeous short film, The Captured Bird. $5 for the general public, free for passholders.
Midnight – Black Box Theater (95 Empire) – A screening of the cult Lovecraft movie, Cthulhu Mansion. $3 admission for the general public, free for passholders, drinks 21+
Saturday, August 24th
4pm – RISD Auditorium (7 Canal Walk) – The Ancestor, a rare feature-length Lovecraft film by the late Dan O’Bannon (the writer for many famous films such as Alien and Total Recall) – this is a viewing of his personal much-improved version of the studio hack-job known as The Resurrected or Shatterbrain, based on the HPL story “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.” This is playing with a special convention test-screening of the short film Miskatonic University. $5 for the general public, free for passholders.
6pm – Black Box Theater (95 Empire) –-HP Lovecraft Film Festival Greatest Hits! A collection of the HPLFF’s most worshipped shorts from past years. $3 admission for the general public, free for passholders, drinks 21+
Midnight – Black Box Theater (95 Empire) – “Psychedelic Lovecraft” – a collage of mind-melding movies compiled by our own Frank Difficult. $3 admission for the general public, free for convention-goers, drinks 21+
Sunday, August 25th
3pm – RISD Auditorium (7 Canal Walk) – A 35 mm print of Stuart Gordon’s rarely-screened DAGON, hosted by the director himself, and paired with the gorgeous short film, The Captured Bird. $5 for the general public, free for passholders.
5:30pm – Black Box Theater (95 Empire) – Short films: Transcendent, The Earth Rejects Him, The Shunned House, and Stay At Home Dad… $3 admission for general public, free for passholders, drinks 21+
