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The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival

October 18, 2020

Eric’s H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival Review: The Hill and the Hole (2020)

★★★ out of ★★★★★ Sweeping cosmic weirdness has been achieved in The Hill and the Hole, an adaptation of a 1942 Fritz Leiber short story. Buoyed by stellar cinematography but burdened by an inscrutable plot, this film might be best understood under heavy hallucinogens.

October 7, 2020

Eric’s H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival Review: Eerie Fairy Tales (2019)

★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ Once upon a time in Estonia, there was a spooky anthology gem that stitched together four fantastical tales of dread. Though only one of them truly feels like a Fairy Tale, each of them spins scintillating storytelling and backs them up with stylish visuals.

May 25, 2018

The Scariest Things Podcast Episode XXIV: An Interview with the Portland Horror Film Festival

Mike and Eric got a chance to sit down with Brian and Gwen Callahan, the organizers of the upcoming Portland Horror Film Festival. Madness and mayhem ensued! Or, at least some great horror movie conversations.

October 10, 2020

Eric’s Review: The Deep Ones (Another Hole in the Head Film Festival) (2020)

★★★ out of ★★★★★ There's literally something fishy about this little beachside community, as a vacationing couple get entangled with a strange beachside community ritual. This is what you get if you mashup Rosemary's Baby with Humanoids from the Deep. The film telegraphs its punches, but it is clearly for fans who like their Lovecraft stories with a thin slice of sleazy.

September 23, 2020