The Dunwich Horror

watched this solely for dean stockwell and he did not disappoint! his curly hair and mustache era was ELITE. maybe the b-movie to end all b-movies? need a midnight screening of THIS. only the 70s could produce such a strange film. jesus christ guys how many moan sound effects do you have in your library. starts with a woman giving birth and then cuts to a guy saying "now put the necronomicon back in the library." what

i was already making evil dead references in my head and then they had to use the phrase "army of darkness"??? get outta here!! i get that the townspeople hate wilbur but this is another the blob situation how the hell did he kill those two people that way?? also his death was fucking insane. why did he explode into flames after this old dude said like four words at him

schlocky trash, but pretty fun to watch. baby reveal via fetus zoom

watched this solely for dean stockwell and he did not disappoint! his curly hair and mustache era was ELITE. maybe the b-movie to end all b-movies? need a midnight screening of THIS. only the 70s could produce such a strange film. jesus christ guys how many moan sound effects do you have in your library. starts with a woman giving birth and then cuts to a guy saying "now put the necronomicon back in the library." what

i was already making evil dead references in my head and then they had to use the phrase "army of darkness"??? get outta here!! i get that the townspeople hate wilbur but this is another the blob situation how the hell did he kill those two people that way?? also his death was fucking insane. why did he explode into flames after this old dude said like four words at him

schlocky trash, but pretty fun to watch. baby reveal via fetus zoom

yeah what the actual hell is this

yeah what the actual hell is this

It may not be the scariest or most loyal adaptation to Lovecrafts work but it has some style and has a dreamy vibe which I quite liked.
It's an adaptation of the dunwich horror and it has its scary moments, tense and even some funny (even if it can look unintentional). Wilbur, Dr Armitage and Nancy are the most interesting to follow.
Wilbur is the best part of the movie and his shady way of completing his mission is very fun to watch even if it should ring so many alarm bells for Nancy.
The Lovecraftian beast looks great and I like how they show colors when he attacks. The set up and build up is done well too. The ending is good too as the ritual gets very intresting.
The Dunwich horror is not the best and feels a little unserious at times but I still liked it quite a bit and had a good time with it.

It may not be the scariest or most loyal adaptation to Lovecrafts work but it has some style and has a dreamy vibe which I quite liked.
It's an adaptation of the dunwich horror and it has its scary moments, tense and even some funny (even if it can look unintentional). Wilbur, Dr Armitage and Nancy are the most interesting to follow.
Wilbur is the best part of the movie and his shady way of completing his mission is very fun to watch even if it should ring so many alarm bells for Nancy.
The Lovecraftian beast looks great and I like how they show colors when he attacks. The set up and build up is done well too. The ending is good too as the ritual gets very intresting.
The Dunwich horror is not the best and feels a little unserious at times but I still liked it quite a bit and had a good time with it.

Didn’t meet my expectations, I've been meaning to watch this for about 2 years 😭
Eldritch horror is when there’s a coloured filter on the camera lens I guess 😅 IDK I understand what they were going for but it doesn’t translate very well into something scary
Main fella was good, I enjoyed his very deadpan voice

Didn’t meet my expectations, I've been meaning to watch this for about 2 years 😭
Eldritch horror is when there’s a coloured filter on the camera lens I guess 😅 IDK I understand what they were going for but it doesn’t translate very well into something scary
Main fella was good, I enjoyed his very deadpan voice

I’ve been making my way through some of H.P. Lovecraft’s short stories, and if you ignore the casual racism, they’re seriously fantastic.

The Dunwich Horror is one of my favourites from him. Between the setting, the slow mystery and the legitimately chilling creatures, The Dunwich Horror is everything that makes Lovecraft so great.

Ironically, The Dunwich Horror movie completely misses everything great about the book. The immense scale and unfathomable horrors that made the book so scary are replaced with sleaziness and shitty psychedelic visuals. There’s a huge focus on poor characters instead of the incredible atmosphere that Lovecraft is so good at creating.

I honestly feel like cosmic horror, at least Lovecraftian cosmic horror, is literally impossible to translate to film. The horror is rooted in how incomprehensible horrors exist just outside our realm of perception. And translating that to film makes the incomprehensible, comprehensible, destroying the main idea of the horror. If we make the infinite horror finite, the entire point of having something beyond perception becomes redundant. Colour Out of Space looks fun as hell though.

I’ve been making my way through some of H.P. Lovecraft’s short stories, and if you ignore the casual racism, they’re seriously fantastic.

The Dunwich Horror is one of my favourites from him. Between the setting, the slow mystery and the legitimately chilling creatures, The Dunwich Horror is everything that makes Lovecraft so great.

Ironically, The Dunwich Horror movie completely misses everything great about the book. The immense scale and unfathomable horrors that made the book so scary are replaced with sleaziness and shitty psychedelic visuals. There’s a huge focus on poor characters instead of the incredible atmosphere that Lovecraft is so good at creating.

I honestly feel like cosmic horror, at least Lovecraftian cosmic horror, is literally impossible to translate to film. The horror is rooted in how incomprehensible horrors exist just outside our realm of perception. And translating that to film makes the incomprehensible, comprehensible, destroying the main idea of the horror. If we make the infinite horror finite, the entire point of having something beyond perception becomes redundant. Colour Out of Space looks fun as hell though.