Shadow of the Unnamable
"Shadow of the Unnamable" is a multi award winning short film by German director Sascha Alexander Renninger. It is based on H. P. Lovecraft's short story The Unnamable (1923). It had its premiere in 2011 at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in
Los Angeles, California, USA. There it won it´s first award, Best Short Lovecraft Adaptation.
S.T. Joshi, the world’s leading Lovecraft scholar and bibliographer had this to say about the film: “Shadow of the Unnamable is a splendid Lovecraftian film. With its convincing period atmosphere, its restrained but powerful special effects, and most of all its hints of cosmic terror, it captures the essence of the Lovecraftian imagination.”
AWARDS
Best Sci-Fi / Horror Short
2013 Berlin Independent Film Festival
Berlin, Germany
Best International Horror Short
2012 Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival
Buffalo, NY, USA
Best Short Lovecraft Adaptation
2011 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival®
Los Angeles, California, USA
NOMINATIONS
Best International Horror Short
Best Editing
Best Special Visual Effects
2012 Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival
Buffalo, NY, USA
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