
H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival Best of 2016

H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival Best of 2016
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The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® in Portland, OR has been the vanguard of Weird independent filmmaking for more than 20 years. Now you can attend in spirit, with this selection of short films from the 21st Annual festival in 2016! Including "Speaking in Tongues" by Thomas Nicol, "Vardøger" by Ludovic de Gaillande, "Poetry & The Gods" by Louis Rossignol, "Tale of Wingate's Journal" by Jeremy Peterson, "Zerch" by Xavier Velasco, "The Call of Charlie" by Nick Spooner, "The Bone Garden" by Monsieur Soeur, "Hypnos" by Juho Aittanen, "The Package" by Eric Morgret, "An Eldritch Place" by Julien Jauniaux + Bonus Music Video.
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2016-12-31
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