In Search Of Lovecraft is an original, scary independent horror feature film shot on location in the San Francisco Bay area. All worldwide rights are now available. The movie tells the story of Rebecca Marsh, a young, skeptical TV news reporter assigned to do a Halloween program on legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. She and her crew soon find their lives in grave danger when they discover that the fictional creatures and cults that Lovecraft wrote about are actually real and are now hunting them.
Engaging the help of an occult expert and a sexy witch, Rebecca and the TV news team are forced to fight the evil forces that have come after them and who are preparing to summon the Dark God Nyarlathotep into our world. To survive their ordeal, Rebecca and her friends must uncover the secret of The Haunter Of The Dark and find the sacred black stone that the cult is searching for before it’s too late. But Rebecca soon comes to realize that there really may be no escape from the nightmarish world of H.P. Lovecraft, because should they live through their ordeal, they may end up going insane in the process, just as the author’s characters always do.
In Search Of Lovecraft was written and directed by David Hohl and produced by David Hohl and Michael Rosen for HohloGraphic Productions, LLC. Hohl and Rosen have assembled a talented cast and crew that combines Hohl’s gripping, original story with fine acting performances, special visual effects by artist Todd c. Hartman, terrifying music by Troy Sterling Nies (Call of Cthulhu) and eerie atmospheric lighting by Michael Rosen to bring the audience an unforgettable cinematic experience. This independent feature film sometimes uses a P.O.V./docu-drama story telling approach so audiences are sure to feel that they are not so much watching a movie but are along for the ride with the TV news crew and what happens to them, happens to the viewer. Combining a chilling, heart pounding unique story with science fiction and mystery, In Search Of Lovecraft is sure to deliver and stay in the film audience’s mind long after the movie is finished.
H.P. Lovecraft’s horrifying “mythos” has such a following that Hohl took the rumored idea that there are magick (occult “magick” as opposed to stage “magic”) cults that believe the creatures in Lovecraft’s novels and short stories really exist, and using this legend he decided to mix the world of fiction and real life, blurring the lines of reality. An occult expert was on the set to supervise the scenes dealing with rituals and help add authenticity to the scenes involving the supernatural. He worked closely with scream-queen actress Rachael Robbins during her role as Keja the Witch to add validation to her chantings and during a complete and accurate magick ritual done in the climax of the film.
Although the majority of the movie takes place in modern day San Francisco, there are a few scenes in the film that are set in the early 1930's. Some of these scenes were shown as flashbacks and displayed in a letterboxed widescreen format while others are viewed as an old roll of projected, scratchy 16mm black-n-white film that Rebecca and her team had found hidden in a cave at a San Francisco beach. The 1930's footage shows what happened to the British husband and wife documentary unit who were investigating this same cult and then mysteriously disappeared many decades ago. But now the news team sees that they are heading down the same road and may be doomed to suffer a similar fate.
Logline: While shooting a Halloween news story on horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, reporter Rebecca Marsh discovers that the "fiction" Lovecraft wrote is actually true and the creatures and cults described in his writings really exist. She and her crew are marked for death because of the knowledge they now possess.
Tagline: Always be aware. [from press release]