Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness

Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness is a 2018 Canadian animated film written, directed and produced by Sean Patrick O'Reilly. It is the sequel to 2016 and 2017 films Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom and Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom, while the trilogy is based on the work of American horror author H. P. Lovecraft.

Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness
Directed by	Sean Patrick O'Reilly
Written by	Sean Patrick O'Reilly
Produced by	Sean Patrick O'Reilly Michelle O'Reilly
Starring	Christopher Plummer Mark Hamill Scott McNeil Jeffrey Combs Finn Wolfhard Doug Bradley
Edited by	Chris Trinh
Music by	George Streicher
Production company	Arcana Studio
Distributed by	Shout! Factory
Release date	December 4, 2018 (2018-12-04)
Running time	75 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

Plot

After the events that occurred in the Frozen Kingdom and the Undersea Kingdom, young Howard finds himself at home. The walls of reality are thinning making the world vulnerable to dangers from beyond. Howard follows his father, Uncle Randolph and Dr. Henry Armitage as they journey to Antarctica, to prevent the awakening of the destroyer of worlds, Cthulhu.

Development

Shout! Factory announced their title releases at SDCC '18, which included Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness.^[1] The Howard Lovecraft series is based on the graphic novel written by Bruce Brown.^[2] In an interview with WIRED, the author stated his inspiration came from the writings of American horror author H. P. Lovecraft as well as many of the character and setting names.^[3] This is the third and last installment of the trilogy. The final film in the series brings out Cthulhu, as foreshadowed in the previous installments.^[4]

Voice cast

• Christopher Plummer - Dr. Jeffrey West
• Mark Hamill - Dr. Henry Armitage
• Kiefer O'Reilly - Howard Lovecraft
• Finn Wolfhard - Herbert West
• Nick Wolfhard - William Dyer
• Vijay Vaibhav Saini - Professor Jaswant Atwood
• Jeffrey Combs - Randolph Lovecraft
• Doug Bradley - Nyarlathotep
• Scott McNeil - Hamish Rice
• Sean Patrick O'Reilly - Spot/Cthulhu
• Ashleigh Ball - Ellen Ellery
• Tyler Nicol - Winfield Lovecraft
• Allison Wandzura - Mary Lovecraft
• Harmony O'Reilly - Innes
• Michelle O'Reilly - Sarah Lovecraft
• Phoenix O'Reilly - Twi'i
• Summer O'Reilly - Gotha

Release

The film was released on December 4, 2018.

Home media

Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 4, 2018^[5] by Shout! Factory which is part of their three feature distribution deal with Arcana Studio.^[6][7][8]