Win Tickets ($170): 2026 HP Lovecraft Film Festival @ Hollywood Theater | 50+ Short & Feature Films
We are giving away a pair of festival passes to the HP Lovecraft Film Festival @ Hollywood Theater October 2-4. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed September 30.
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From our sponsors:
HP Lovecraft Film Festival
October 2, 2026 @ 7PM
October 3-4, 2026 @ 1PM
$27-85 | All Ages
Purchase Tickets + Full Schedule: hplfilmfestival.com
Hollywood Theater
4122 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR 97212
The 31st Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival® kicks off Spooky Season Oct 2-4, 2026 on all 3 screens at the Hollywood Theatre!
Festival Highlights include:
- US Premiere of ODDITIES, starring Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog), with director Tyler Savage
- PNW Premiere of Hammer Films’ ITHAQUA, starring Luke Hemsworth (Westworld), Kevin Durand (Clown in a Cornfield), Leenah Robinson (Taylor Sheridan’s 1923), with director Casey Walker
- Creature Double Feature of FROGMAN (2023) AND FROGMAN RETURNS (2026) with director Anthony Cousins
VALLEY OF THE HORNTAK, starring Kathleen Kinmont (Bride of Re-Animator), Vernon Wells (The Road Warrior), with director Maxwell Morro - US Premiere of WARHEAD: THE WORLD IS NO LONGER OURS (Brazil) by Cadu Rosenfeld
- THINGS GREATER THAN US, by John Juodis
- Lovecraft Under the Gun 72 Hour Film Contest screening
- Over 45 Short Films from 18 countries, Q&As with visiting filmmakers
- The Shorts of Madness
- Literary events at the library, open gaming at Black Water
- Local Artisans and Publishers in the Mall of Cthulhu!
Our Guest of Honor is celebrated horror novelist Philip Fracassi, known for acclaimed works like A Child Alone with Strangers, Gothic, and Boys in the Valley. Don’t miss his reading, book signing, and keynote!
Schedule, Films, Guests, and more info on the festival website.
This year’s short films are an expansive lineup of original Weird tales and Cosmic Horror from around the world, including adaptations of stories by Lovecraft and his influences and contemporaries like Robert W. Chambers and Edgar Allan Poe, representing the wide diversity of filmmakers creating cosmic horror cinema today.
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Would really love to see the Icelandic short film that uses bunraku puppetry and stop-motion animation, but there’s a lot that sounds great – Iä! Iä!!
This festival sounds so freakin’ cool…HP Lovecraft, films from all over the world, “Oddities” premier, etc.
We would love to go…hope we get picked! 👻
This looks so fun
The black goat of the woods with a thousand young told me I must attend.
This is perfect for me, I love this genre! Please pick me!
I’d really like to see the collection of shorts that will be screening, Redhead, Happy (which reminds me of a certain twilight zone episode) Hunger, Pickled Rabbit, Frogman Returns, Back Sky (local PNW setting) .
If I could afford a ticket I’d buy one.
This would be a great event to attend! I hope get picked 🙂.
Would love to win and surprise my sci-fi obsessed husband and lover of all things Cthulhu with these festival passes!
I’ve been wanting to go to this SOOO bad but can’t afford to. I’d LOVE to win this & would spend the entire time there!!!
this falls on my dead partner’s birthday… i find that to be a spooky coincidence and id love to attend!
i would hp love craft to go?
oh my gosh my bestie is really into hp lovecraft, i would love (pun intended) to take him!
Omg this sounds fun 👻
My partner has been a horror fanatic since childhood and 10/3 is her birthday. She watches a different horror film everyday in October, and this would be the actual icing on the cake of her day!
It is “Spooky Season”! Perfect for some HP Lovecraft films! I am ready to be freaked out and scared.
The walls ooze with laughter that pours from the stretched faces of friends and loved ones from my past, and between fits of choked accusations and spiteful rebukes, the vile drapery sputters that the only way out is through, into the jaws of madness, beneath the marquee of the Hollywood Theater and inside its gore smeared portal, where all manner of abominations learn to stand on broken, inverted limbs like stillbirthed nightmares taking shape in corporeal form. I find myself unable to resist…
Love the Hollywood Theatre!!!
A close acquaintance and I are in this to win this!
This is real?! Would love to win tickets pleease
Two friends I dearly loved died recently only a few weeks apart. SAD!😭 Lovecraft Festival immersion would be SWEET ESCAPE!❤️
Would love to gift these to my film buff friend! He was a film student and loves stuff like this. We run a charlie brown / Lucy psychiatric help stall on Mt Tabor some weekends and I’d love to make a whole day of this after our stall this weekend.
This would be an excellent way to start October! I would be ever so thankful to be picked.
CTHULU