12_L'Appel de Cthulhu - Courts-métrages

When a rich patron visits the studio of the depraved artist Pickman, he is horrified to discover the sinister source of her inspiration. Adapted from the H. P. Lovecraft story of the same title.

A student is intrigued by the hauntingly beautiful music coming from the room above his. He finds that an eccentric German violinist, Erich Zann, is responsible but that there is a terrible secret behind his music.

Having regained the key to the gate of dreams, a lonely Randolph Carter leaves behind the prosiness of the waking world forever and crosses into the realm of dreams.

The mysterious Mr. Noyes greets Wilmarth at Brattleboro Station in this scene taken from the classic H.P. Lovecraft short story, 'The Whisperer in Darkness'.

Two grave robbers have to face a curse brought on them by a mysterious amulet.

Philip gets a temporary job as a gofer for Mr Staaff. The job is simple. He's supposed to deliver goods to a light keeper. But Mr Staaff didn't tell him why the light keeper never leaves the lighthouse after sunset.

A young man takes shelter from a storm in an old house inhabited by a strange older man. While examining an old book, the young man begins to wonder if this house and it's host are hiding a dark secret. Based on the short story by H. P. Lovecraft.

Two young men head out to uncover a truth older than man itself but the mission soon turns into a nightmare.

A man goes into a town unknown to him, attracted by the sordid description that people do of it. Freely based on the H. P. Lovecraft short novel 'The Shadow over Innsmouth,' Innsbay is the tale of the slow and painful destruction of a human life.

A series of events building up to an invasion of the Earth by beings from another astral plane, and Earth's reaction to it.

This film is an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's short story 'The Silver Key'. Randolph Carter is on a journey to unlock the dreams of his youth. After a visit from the ghost of his uncle, Carter discovers an ancient box hidden in his attic which holds a silver key. Carter travels to his family's country estate, but his journey into the past will go far beyond merely retracing the steps of his childhood as time, memory and dreams become one. Another world is calling to Randolph Carter and only the silver key can open the way.

Based on H.P. Lovecraft's work, Shadow Beyond Time tells the story of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, an Arkham-born prodigy. At age 22, he becomes the youngest associate professor in the history of Miskatonic University. His bright future is disrupted when he falls into a coma, from which he won't seem to recover. That doesn't mean that his body doesn't wake up in the hospital, however, although that being is clearly not Nathaniel. 5 years later, Nathaniel returns to his body and from that moment on he begins an intense search to discover what happened to him. That's when disturbing visions begin to haunt him- visions that uncover things not only from his immediate past, but also from his own bloodline...

In 1925, a young academic visits the Guthrie Asylum in Oklahoma to explore the native tribal belief in the snake god, Yig. There she is confronted by a bizarre creature, the sole living survivor of the nightmarish Halloween of 1889. As she learns the tragic tale of Walker and Audrey Davis- early residents of the Oklahoma Territory- she too begins to fall under the spell of an unrelenting fear that time cannot diminish.

Three criminals' mischievous endeavors lead them to a place darker than they had expected. Adapted from a story by H.P. Lovecraft.

The small New England village of Dunwich harbors many secrets, but none so dark as the origin of Wilbur Whateley. Born to an albino mother and raised in seclusion by his occultist grandfather, Wilbur shuns the outside world in favor of his family's dark mythology. Set in the early 1920s, "Dunwich" is an intimate tale of the Whateley clan and of a mysterious man who threatens to take Wilbur from his family.

Brilliant scientist Caulfield Tillingwurst and his beautiful assistant Ulthar the nurse are pushing the boundaries of science as they conduct research into sex and sensuality. A parody of Lovecraft's story 'From Beyond'.

Randolph Carter is questioned by police over the strange disappearance of Harley Warren. However his statement will reveal a horrific truth.

A short, animated treatment of the Lovecraft story. Three robbers plan to break into the house of a mysterious old man to steal his gold. They soon find out that the old man is not as defenseless as they thought.

The Statement of Randolph Carter is a short film based upon the H.P. Lovecraft short story of the same name. In it, novice occultist and academic, Randolph Carter, is questioned by the police when his friend and mentor Harley Warren turns up missing.

When two old friends meet for drinks, Eliot finds Thurber not the man he once knew. Thurber explains that the change in his demeanor is down to an artist, Pickman, he is using as inspiration for an article about weird art.

Dr Herbert West and his assistant are working in a makeshift lab on the Eastern Front. As bombs drop and the fighting nears, West attempts to re-animate the corpse of a Waffen SS officer - with disastrous results.

Isaac Williams is a scholar of the Occult, having studied under the well respected Professor Robert Northam at Miskatonic University. On one of his many forays into archaic bookshops in search of antiquities and rare texts, Williams happens upon a copy of The Necrnomicon, an ancient tome from the Dark Ages containing a collection of sinister spells, prophecies and incantations. Excitedly, he purchases the book and brings it to his old professor, only to discover Northam a hollow shell of the great man he once was. He, too, had studied The Necronomicon and his findings had driven him to insanity, forcing him to spend his days with inane distractions to avoid those awful thoughts. Unperturbed by Northam's warnings, Williams takes up residence in his home and begins his research into The Necronomicon, desperate to to discover it's dark secrets.

A surreal neon animation film by stream of consciousness neon filmmaker, Jack Feldstein of H.P. Lovecraft's prose poem Ex Oblivione about time and mortality.

A live action adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name.