Full House

Even gods need a break…

Now available!

As part of the Lovecraft Under the Gun competition, Hellbender Media and Bullet Dance Films joined forces with a talented group of filmmakers and in a period of 72 hours, created a complex and terrifying “Slice of Life” story that includes the Major Players of the Lovecraft pantheon.

Cast

  • Shub-Niggurath: Kristin Barrett
  • Cthulhu: Gaelle Lola Beauvais
  • Hastur: Lien Mya Nguyen
  • Yig: Jason Reynolds
  • Azathoth: Donald Wright
  • Nyarlathotep: Kristin Barrett, Billy Burgess, Mike Burris, Jonah Calhoun, Colby Dahlstrom, John Hauptman, Jennifer Jordan, Bill Kelly, Patrick Kwan, Eric Anthony McMichael, Drake Roberts, Marisa Roberts-Hauptman, Nyssa Hope Rogers, Samm Rondeau, Raine Rucker, Asha Sawyer

Crew

  • Written and Directed by: Edward Martin III
  • Produced by: Amber Bariaktari
  • Produced by: Donald Wright
  • Director of Photography: Lisa Sherman
  • Assistant Director: Michael Harbour
  • Sound Mixer: Daniel Smith
  • Edited: Edward Martin III
  • Assistant Gaffer: Matt Brennan
  • Clapper Loader: Jonah Calhoun
  • Key Makeup: Nyssa Hope Rogers
  • Production Assistant: Colby Dahlstrom
  • Production Assistant: Eric Anthony McMichael
  • Production Assistant: Joe Rodgers
  • Production Assistant: Samm Rondeau
  • Production Assistant: Raine Rucker
  • Special Props: Brian Bloom
  • Runner: Patrick Sherman
  • Special thanks to: Catalyst: A Sex Positive Place
  • Special thanks to: Adobe Sound Library
  • Special thanks to: Video CoPilot
  • Special thanks to: The H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival

Movies

Because what is audio without video? What is video without audio?

Ever since the first crazy protohuman said “Hold my rock a sec, I’m gonna try something,” we have been entertained by images and sound.

Hellbender Media does its best to honor that ancient tradition by presenting audio-visual entertainments of all sorts and flavors. From short weird movies, to feature films, to series, and to things… of a more unusual nature… we’ve never backed down from a challenge.

Hold my rock a sec…

Feature Films

Hellbender Media is pleased to offer a variety of strange feature films, to complement our collection of strange short movies.

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

H. P. Lovecraft’s epic tale of the courageous dreamer Randolph Carter and his search for the mystical sunset city by petitioning the gods of Kadath. During his journey, he travels deep into the world of dream, to the edge of the world, to the moon and back, and to the heights and depths of human and… inhuman experience.

Flesh of my Flesh

An embedded research team reveals themselves to rescue their own beleaguered rescue party. This triggers a snowball of betrayal, jealousy, love, and redemption, punctuated by bullets, pain, and death. After the bullets, pain, and death come more revelations.

High concept and low budget intersect in this gory psychotronic zombie romp.

The Dead

The Dead is about how we affect others. It’s about all the little and big changes that we make in the lives around us, sometimes through deliberate action, sometimes just by being ourselves.

This is what remains. Not a body, or a will or a bit of dirt, but lives that have been changed and altered.

Without Form, and Void

You may have thought you’ve seen the ultimate in profound religious programming, but Without Form, and Void brings you before the Creation, and reveals everything that leads up to the most significant event in the history of the Universe itself.

And more than that: Without Form, and Void‘s shocking — and painfully true — ending will remain with you for as long as you live.

Bone Cold

In the middle of nowhere, in the deep snowy wastes, a woman awakes with nothing. No tools, no clothes, no memory.

Desperate for answers, she struggles to find a way out of this hellish place, and to find her own meaning in the wilderness.

Collapse

What lies beyond this fog? Beasts, redemption, annihilation? The only way to know for sure is to step through – but no one ever returns.

Series

Hellbender Media is in production on a number of exciting series projects of all sorts and sizes.

Rose City Underground

Something dark and mysterious lies beneath the streets of Portland — something that has been quiet for year. Perhaps decades.

Perhaps centuries.

But now it’s waking up.

Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse

Not everyone’s going to survive the Zombie Apocalypse.

For those of us who do, meet Highmile.

Highmile knows how to wander unscathed in the land of the undead.

Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse — for Zombies!

Not everyone’s going to survive the Zombie Apocalypse.

But for those of us who don’t, there’s still a chance to thrive.

Meet Charli. She’s thriving.

Head of Household

Just because murder and mayhem are part of a family’s day-to-day routine doesn’t mean that that certain rules shouldn’t be followed.

After all, what are the neighbors to think?

Meet the most polite murdery people around.

Scuba Dooba Doo

A web series for divers!

Scuba Dooba Doo is the only web series (that we know of) which is filmed entirely underwater.

The Creative Draw

Writers, filmmakers, composers, actors, and artists all struggle with the same questions.

Their answers might surprise you.

Pointed Lessons

The oldest vampire in the New World lives in New Orleans.

That is where he has quietly hunted for centuries.

And he has a few things to teach us.

Short Films

Short films, like poetry, allow a story to be told quickly. Short movies allow exploration without huge commitment.

Animo Korvoj

A thriving mining town uncovers something profoundly unwholesome in this mysterious tale of the Old West.

What could any of us expect would happen?

Filmed entirely in Esperanto!

Blood

At the turn of the century, a group of pirates meet to swap tales and plan plunder.

But one is hungrier than the others…

…and he has a story to tell.

Come to Us

What could cause a human being to thrown in with a Deep One.

It better be an amazing promise!

(spoiler alert: it is)

Dark Hour

When darkness falls and the Moon comes out, a transformation occurs — followed by fury, death, pain, and ultimately regret.

A tale of ultimate tragedy, and…

…a werewolf story you’ve never seen before.

Full House

When the Greater Gods of the Lovecraft mythos get together, what horrifying mischief can they be up to?

And what games might they play?

Created as part of the Lovecraft Under the Gun competition.

Innsmouth Legacy

A woman from Innsmouth is desperate to escape the curse of her family.

But curses are tenacious things, and avoiding them sometimes just makes it worse.

Lord of the Rings

A delicious adaptation, this completely unlicensed parody covers every single chapter of the second most famous fantasy trilogy ever written.

Even Tom Bombadil.

Moonsong

Ages ago, our planet spun around the Sun alone, without a Moon, and upon its face there thrived a crystal race, who loved their god, and whose god loved them.

But then an intruder came…

ReCreation

In ReCreation, one man is forced by tragedy to confront the Universe and bend it to his will.

Sometimes in those exact forges we shine the most.

But whether or not we shine — will we survive?

Revival

Be careful about who you trust regarding your remains…

Even nowadays, when I run across these “we’ll freeze your head” people, I get nervous.

As should you.

Seeds

Sometimes regretful things happen.

We still have to deal with those things, of course.

It’s best to not bury our mistakes.

At least not those kinds of mistakes.

They tend to catch up with you.

Shadowdog

What’s it like to experience the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in person?

Shadowdog knows.

And Shadowdog tells all.

Terminal Reflections

Deep in the dreary impenetrable badlands of 2415’s Pacific Northwest, a lone adventurer seeks her future.

But when she finds her future, she discovers that her past has a way of catching up, too.

The Call of Cthulhu

Before there were classy adaptations of this short story, we came along and caused mischief.

Fancy mischief.

(spoiler alert: don’t answer the phone!)

The Perfect Mate

Love is a close sibling to a completely different kind of emotion.

A lesson for us all.

And philosophically, we are probably on pretty safe ground, here.

The Pumpkin Patch

Hellbender Media and Media F/X Productions joined forces to help Little People, Big World star Matt Roloff make his own movie.

A farmer’s pumpkin patch wins all the awards, but what is his secret?

Join us on set and find out if it worked!

The Statement of Randolph Carter

The Statement of Randolph Carter is an incursion into ancient terror in the middle of a lost cemetery deep within impenetrable woods.

Two men, who thought they knew each other…

Some things are hidden for a reason.

The Testament of Tom Jacoby

What happens when six men are trapped beneath a mountain in a massive cave-in?

What if one of them…

…wasn’t a very nice person?

Vows

Whenever you make a deal with a supernatural creature – no matter how good the sex is – read the fine print!

Workshop Films

As part of our popular filmmaking workshop, Hellbender Media/Guerrilla Productions has produced many hilarious short movies.

31

This time, Mr. Bauer must uncover a deadly plot to… alter people…

…in terrifying ways…

…with mysterious fluids, and…

…yikes!

37 Minutes

It’s time for journalists to get back to their roots…

…uncovering mischief!

Discover how pseudoscience really works in informercials

(free PSA!)

Blood in the Halls

Above all else, be safe out there, fandom!

Follow the rules!

Even the weird ones.

Especially the weird ones.

ConCeption

Sometimes, it’s the con within the con within the con…

But don’t go too deep…

…because when you come back…

…things may not be what they seem.

Con of the Dead

Zombies were people, too.

And still may be.

Technically.

CSI: Norwescon

Is it murder most foul, or something even more sinister…?

Our Canadian Special, featuring Canadian stars, Canadian plotline, and…

…really polite people.

Cult of the Giant Brain

Behold!

Now is the time of your destruction, Earthling!

Roll a saving throw.

Fantiques Roadshow

There’s no way of telling what oddball things fans may have lying around…

…and how deadly they may be.

Excerpt to try ’em out.

Intergalactic Bad Astra

Our first workshop film, wherein we attempt to take over the world.

With a rat.

But he’s a very clever rat, in his defense.

It Came from the Elevator!

The horror that is locked inside that little tiny box…

(not talking about gas, BTW)

(we did it before Shayamalan!)

It’s a Terrible Life

Even demons need your support.

Or rather, they need you to suffer so that they can earn their horns…

…which is very supportive of you.

KNWC

All the news that fits!

Some news that doesn’t…

…but we crammed it in there anyway.

The Last Con on Earth

It started in the ancient days…

A cautionary tale from the far far future.

Told in Art Film Vision.

ManSlugs!: the making of “A Sci-Fi Original”

How do those movies get made?

Let’s start with the script…

…and go downhill from there.

March of the Fenguins

A rare species that we must all watch out for.

And steer clear of.

Good luck, Boot Hill Guy!

The Matricks

Neo may be The One, but there may also be some others…

…and some regrets.

Woah.

Naming the Unnameable

We all speak of the Unnameable, but does that really mean it’s…

…unnameable?

Or have we just not figured it out yet?

Run Frodo Run

The mashup we all needed to see:

Lord of the Rings plus Run Lola Run.

Now in repeat-o-vision!

Steve: portrait of a minion

Ancient gods need love, too.

Or at least minions.

But really, don’t we all need the occasional minion?

The Towering ConFerno

As we all say once we hear the foundations creaking:

“It’s a disaster!”

Too late to run!

Ultimate Survivor: Norwescon

Who will survive…

…Ultimate Survivor?!

(hint: not many)

Warehouse 36

A parody of the popular sci-fi series.

Now with all-new artifacts!

And a plot-twist to die for.

Weekend at Hellcon

Even the lesser demons need a little time out on occasion.

Trouble is, who messes with demons in their own element…?

…Someone even more mischievous.

World’s Deadliest Convention/Machinechete

A double-feature of hilarious proportions.

Low-Budget Filmmaking Tips

More about low-budget filmmaking than you could have imagined! This remarkable source represents decades of experience

The Low-Budget Filmmaking Tips is your ultimate guide to low-budget filmmaking!

HBM Streaming Theater

As a special premium to our Patreon subscribers, Hellbender Media hosts a little Streaming Theater, featuring many of our movies. If you want free access to the entire theater, then please join us at Hellbender Media’s Patreon page!

Easy Reading for Difficult Devils

Easy Reading for Difficult Devils – edited by Zachary T. Owen

Now available!

Strange things come down from the heavens.

A medical ward is full of patients who explode. A man must dispose of a corpse for his idiot brother. A little boy finds himself trapped beneath an outhouse.

These, and others, are the strange tales contained within Easy Reading for Difficult Devils, fast stories that leave your heart and body breathless.

This dark fiction anthology features stories by:

  • Bram Stoker
  • Kevin Sweeney
  • Brandon Lewis
  • Edward Martin III
  • Neil Peters
  • Darren Simpson
  • Tamara Rogers
  • Jonathan Persinger
  • Aurelio Rico Lopez III
  • Jack London
  • Philip Gorski
  • Ben Rutkowski
  • Edgar Allen Poe
  • Marjorie Lord
  • C. V. Hunt
  • Jamison VanLoocke
  • Jeremy Terry
  • Zachary T. Owen

Harbinger

Harbinger – Published by NIWA

Now available!

A son encounters a strange bird while selling his mother’s house. A man goes out on a ledge to save his brother. A grieving mother is comforted by signs from the beyond. A widower receives a warning of impending doom. A garden offers a young wife hope. A visitor brings news of change.

Harbinger, the 2023 NIWA anthology, is a captivating collection of nineteen tales that revolve around the central theme of anticipation and foreboding. The stories represent various genres, from contemporary to mind-bending science fiction to bone-chilling horror.

The Northwest Independent Writers Association (NIWA) supports indie authors of the Pacific Northwest and promotes professional standards in independent writing, publishing, and marketing.

Showcasing works by:

  • Tom Larsen
  • William J. Cook
  • Minnette Meador
  • Joel Graves
  • Kimila Kay
  • A. M. Huff
  • Pamela Cowan
  • Judy Kiehart
  • Suzi Wiser
  • L. Wade Powers
  • Ro Knight
  • Cyn Ley
  • Patrick Dwyer
  • Samantha Waltz
  • Kamila Miller
  • Byrum Bolerjack
  • Jonathan Michael Erickson
  • Sheila Deeth
  • Edward Martin III

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Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse

The world may be lost, but you aren’t

Now available!

Our resident Zombie Hunting expert Highmile brings you a collection of tips and tricks for surviving the upcoming zombie apocalypse.

Find many of Highmile’s tips in handy blood-spatter-proof card form in our Zombie Tips Card Deck, which is not only a perfectly good deck of cards, but each card features a unique tip for surviving the Zombie Apocalypse — it’s a Zombie Survival Deck in a box!

Please visit the Hellbender Media store for a wide variety of zombie-related goodies that we’ve made just for you!

Trailer

Cast

  • Highmile: Rex Irae
  • Charli: Amber Bariaktari

Crew

  • Writer/Director: Edward Martin III
  • Producer: Amber Bariaktari

Episode List

Without Form, and Void

Secrets from before the Bible!

Now available!

Watch the version no one else wants you to see!

BANNED by the secular media!

You may have thought you’ve seen the ultimate in profound religious programming, but Without Form, and Void brings you before the Creation, and reveals everything that leads up to the most significant event in the history of the Universe itself.

And more than that: Without Form, and Void‘s shocking — and painfully true — ending will remain with you for as long as you live.

Crew

Books

The act of reading is an act of quiet defiance.

Books are weird.

Used to be, books were just paper things you bought at a bookstore. They still are, of course, and that’s wonderful, because all of us at Hellbender Media are avid readers, and by “avid,” what I actually mean is “voracious to the point of sometimes needing medication.”

But then, who isn’t?

But now, books are weird. Books are paper things. Books are digital things. Books are online story blogs, where everything is constantly shifting and unfolding.

And by “weird,” what I actually mean is “awesome – I love living in the future!”

Our Books

The Blood-Red Night of Hatchet Valley

In this fast-paced page-turner, a group of strangers are driven down a dead-end valley to a single cabin, where they not only fight off monsters from the outside, but monsters from their own secrets as well.

The Blood-Red Night of Hatchet Valley is a terrifying thirteen-hour journey into horror, violence, bravery, and triumph.

Terror Stories from the Territories

Follow the journals of Jack Harlowe as he travels the world and brings you to stories he hears.

These aren’t ordinary stories, either. For every place on Earth, there is a dark corner, a terrifying turn, a weird non-Euclidean angle, and it is these strange places that Jack has gone to and returned from, with rich new stories.

Terror Stories from the Territories is a monthly collection of strange and weird stories, coming soon!

Close Your Eyes: Tales from the Blinkspace

A compelling mix of horror, fantasy, and the deeper kinds of emotions that are most often jangled hard when the world spins awry.

Close Your Eyes was written as part of a competition to write a new story every week for a year. Over the course of 52 weeks, it produced 55 stories, each of which offers a unique glimpse into a twisted landscape of dark fantasy.

Through the Night

In this fast-paced page-turner, a group of strangers are driven down a dead-end valley to a single cabin, where they not only fight off monsters from the outside, but monsters from their own secrets as well.

Through the Night is a terrifying thirteen-hour journey into horror, violence, bravery, and triumph.

Fully Functional: A Cross-Cultural Collaboration Reaching out to Organics

Take an AI — amazing, powerful, immortal, modular, and new to human emotions.

Add a human being — fragile, short-lived, emotional, and yet intensely alive.

Fully Functional is just how such an AI might respond, might woo, might romance, and might delight such a person. Would that we all have a partner so devoted to us that they would watch suns burn out before forgetting our faces.

Fully Functional is a collection of poetry from such a creature, a nigh-immortal AI, to it’s ephemeral beloved. Who says love can’t stand the test of time maybe has not known what it is to be loved by a vast AI.

Tooth, Claw & Heart: Exalting the Lupine Rampant

The world is filled with howling creatures of the night — werewolves. Most of what we know of werewolves are that they are “vicious,” how to become one, and how to kill them. But what about their point of view?

So many werewolves are just starting out, and they may be confused and upset. This is the guide to help them find their way. This is the advice every new werewolf needs (and a few older ones), on how to be the best werewolf they can be.

Written in a non-linear format, this book’s magic happens when you open it to a page at random. Chances are, that’s exactly the page you needed!

Other Books

Bizarre Tales of Horror

A collection of short horror stories written by some of the very best horror writers.

Keep the lights on as you read these stories.

The stories are awesome! …a great book to add to any collection if you love horror!

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The Boneyard

What goes on in the Boneyard? Does the night watchman stumble across an unearthed atrocity? Does a gravedigger find a relic that threatens mankind?

Maybe even worse.

And what happens to those who find out?

Broken Worlds

This book is about broken worlds, from families to a multiverse, where things are not what they seem or seem to be what they are: utterly broken from the top down and vice versa.

This book is also about hope, and how even in the middle of these broken worlds, even in the middle of the darkness, light may still shine brightly.

Challenge from Beyond – 2018

The 2017 round robin story by Nathan Carson, Cody Goodfellow, Dominique Lamssies, Orrin Grey, and Chad Michael Ward is on one side.

Flip it over and the winners of the Lovecraftian Micro Fiction Contest are on the other side!

2018 Challenge From Beyond contains the rare short story Call of the Needle.

Challenge from Beyond – 2021

It’s two books in one!

The 2021 Challenge From Beyond book is on one side, flip it over for the winners of the 2021 Lovecraftian Micro Fiction Contest.

This limited edition book was produced by Forbidden Futures specially for the 2021 H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival Kickstarter fundraiser.

Only 200 copies were printed.

Easy Reading for Difficult Devils: An Anthology of Dark Fiction

Strange things come down from the heavens.

A medical ward is full of patients who explode. A man must dispose of a corpse for his idiot brother. A little boy finds himself trapped beneath an outhouse.

These, and others, are the strange tales contained within Easy Reading for Difficult Devils, fast stories that leave your heart and body breathless.

Finding Home

These eighteen post-apocalyptic tales focus on the phoenix, not the ashes.

After the death of a world, you start to consider the things that really matter: making the best of new worlds.

Fossil Lake II: The Refossiling

Welcome back to Fossil Lake, where the water is dark, and deep, and strange.

Fossil Lake is where wonderful mysteries and abhorrent monsters dwell together, lurking far beyond the shadowed reach of reality.

Gears and Levers 1

Twenty amazing tales set in steampunk lands by masterful storytellers including:

  • David D. Levine
  • Brenda Clough
  • Mark J. Ferrari
  • Irene Radford
  • K.L. Townsend
  • David Lee Summers
  • Shannon Page
  • Bruce Taylor
  • and more!

Happy Little Horrors II: Alienated

Happy Little Horrors is an anthology produced by editor Monique Happy.

Some of the best authors in the horror genre are represented, including David Reuben Aslin, Steven G. Bynum, Otis Carlisle, Ricky Cooper, Timothy J. Cooper, Brandon Cracraft, Stephen DeMarino, Tony Dews, Paul Du Jat, Allen Gamboa, Kenneth Goldman, Shane Gregory, Sherrie L. James, William Kingsley, Edward Martin III, Russell Proctor, Randy D. Rubin, Brandon Ryals, Amanda Shore, & Maryann Weston

Harbinger

A son encounters a strange bird while selling his mother’s house. A man goes out on a ledge to save his brother. A grieving mother is comforted by signs from the beyond. A widower receives a warning of impending doom. A garden offers a young wife hope. A visitor brings news of change.

Harbinger, the 2023 NIWA anthology, is a captivating collection of nineteen tales that revolve around the central theme of anticipation and foreboding.

The stories represent various genres, from contemporary to mind-bending science fiction to bone-chilling horror.

People Eating People

Come feast on a buffet of fiction!

In these pages you’ll find superheroes, fantasy, steampunk, corporate whistle-blowing, and a grandma passing down her ‘secret family recipe.’

But most importantly, you will discover a very special taste for people.

Stomping Grounds

Seventeen stories, seventeen monsters, all here to delight and disgust you as they return to their Stomping Grounds!

Big, sweeping, and apocalyptic in scope, or small yet insistent. Monsters here be.

Trigger Warning: Curses

Sometimes, you’re warned. Sometimes, you should know better. Sometimes, you do know better and still do it anyway. Sometimes, you just piss off the wrong person. Maybe you’ve got it coming, or maybe you don’t deserve it.

The word curse evokes many things: folk horror and witches, cursed items or places, a cycle of familial abuse, hate, and violence.

These stories delve into a myriad of visions brought to life by some of the most twisted and brilliant minds in horror today.

Undiscovered

Fifteen amazing tales from fifteen talented authors — all exploring what no one has seen before… or discovered!

In this anthology, the map and the territory are the same, and your adventure starts on page 1!

Villainy

Anger, jealousy, obsession, hatred, and murder.

Villainy comes in all shapes and sizes.

Explore the darkness of the human — and inhuman — soul.