22 - The First Week of Halloween, II: Mermaid

Are mermaids just in the imagination of very lonely sailors? Or are they something...sharper?
Official Selection at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival.

It begins! The first week of the second year of the 4 Weeks of Halloween. This week: Mermaid.

Hundreds, maybe thousands of years of legends--yet no confirmed sightings of a mermaid. Is it because they're just in the imagination of very lonely sailors? Or is the true reason something...sharper?

Shown at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival under the title “Love and Survival in Innsmouth.”

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11 - A Bold New Direction for the Pequod

It's been awhile since I read Moby Dick, but I'm pretty sure it happened just like this.

It's been awhile since I read Moby Dick, but I'm pretty sure it happened just like this.

Director's Commentary:

  • Yes, I have an actual degree in English Literature. I should know better.

  • Featuring “Whale” icon by Joao Santos from thenounproject.com, and in-episode music “A New Beginning" by Bensound.com.

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1 - Book Return

An urgent message of cosmic importance from a small New England college library.
Official Selection at nine film festivals across the U.S.

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A message of cosmic importance from a small New England college library...

It's index cards vs. Cthulhu when a Miskatonic University librarian tries to to retrieve an apocalyptically dangerous book without panicking the hapless patron who accidentally checked it out.

The award-winning video that started the whole [1] New Message series. Based on two of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft's most enduring creations: Miskatonic University and the Necronomicon.

Official Selection at:

  • H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival

  • Boston SciFi Film Fest Book Return

  • Juggernaut Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival

  • Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival (Award Winner: Cartoons and Bloody Marys Animation Award)

  • We Like 'Em Short - Animation and Comedy Film Festival

  • San Francisco Another Hole in the Head Film Festival

  • BoneBat "Comedy of Horrors" Film Fest

  • Crypticon Seattle 

  • Die Laughing (Award Winner: Best Experimental Film)

It even has a trailer:

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