2010 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival Reports

Now that the dust has settled from Portland's latest H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, quite a few impressions of the event are up for our reading pleasure. Here's a brief round up that collects the better convention chronicles in the Lovecraftian blogosphere. As previously mentioned, this year may have marked the final appearance of a Lovecraft film fest in the northwest for some time, but certainly not the last Lovecraft convention.

• Lovecraft Film Fest and Cthulhu Con Wrap up: This summary by the Obscure Clearly blog's Ahimsa gives their take on many of the bigger films screened there. The post also includes some photos that communicate the festival's celebratory air. Speakers, merchandise, and costumed revelers everywhere!
• The End of an Era?: Sarah L. Covert's very appropriate question strikes a sad, but uplifting note to her extended commentary on 2010's Lovecraftiana at the Hollywood Theater.  Her post archives further images forever embedded into the digital ether, a visual history that will probably stand even as the Hollywood Theater and its occupants are as vanished as Lovecraft himself one day.
• Student Producers Take Lovecraft on the Road: A post from the Vancouver Film School links several of its trainees to the Cthulhuvian ground zero south of Canada. The article is one major example of the international renown the HPL Film Festival has gotten this year.
• Great Yuggoth Whut a Wonderful Week-End!: This heartfelt post by Wilum Pugmire just about says it all. The festival will also be remembered as a place for artists and writers to network and meet their readers, a trend that will hopefully carry on at future weird gatherings.

-Grim Blogger