H.P. Lovecraft, Providence's own master of horror and weird fiction (and notoriously racist and borderline mad), was born on this date in 1890. Few of the films based on Lovecraft's short stories come even close to greatness, but his influence on the genres he wrote in is still felt and his fans continue to create their own art in the same vein. Today's film is a unique attempt to capture the spirit of Lovecraft's work by imagining what an adaptation of it might have looked had it been snapped up immediately for production (considering The Jazz Singer, which spelled the doom of silent films, came out just one year later). The result is a fun short film (at 47 minutes in length it's a bit too long for a short and a bit too short for even the shortest of feature films) which doesn't overstay it's welcome. ![]()
