I remember reading Lovecrafts classic The Dunwich Horror back when I was a boy, I always enjoyed his works and nobody else could write quite like him.
As I grew older and my movie obsession truly took hold I was astonished how bad almost every Lovecraft adaptation was, seriously awful stuff.
It's taken me a longtime to get round to the original 1970's movie and I can confidently say I'm more than a little miffed.
Starring Dean "Quantum Leap" Stockwell and Sandra Dee this is a very loose streamlined version of the tale and it simply isn't very good.
Upon investigation it turns out that The Dunwich Horror has been adapted quite a few times and I can only hope the others are better than this. It looks terrible, it doesn't do the source material justice and strip Dunwich from it's title and you'd likely not even realise it was a Lovecraft piece.
Utter mess and that's a damn shame.
The Good:
Dean Stockwell is on form
The Bad:
Some weird choices for the score
Really crummy sfx
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
The best method of tackling a man with a spear is to dive right onto it
H.P Lovecraft was the original purveyor of hentai
As I grew older and my movie obsession truly took hold I was astonished how bad almost every Lovecraft adaptation was, seriously awful stuff.
It's taken me a longtime to get round to the original 1970's movie and I can confidently say I'm more than a little miffed.
Starring Dean "Quantum Leap" Stockwell and Sandra Dee this is a very loose streamlined version of the tale and it simply isn't very good.
Upon investigation it turns out that The Dunwich Horror has been adapted quite a few times and I can only hope the others are better than this. It looks terrible, it doesn't do the source material justice and strip Dunwich from it's title and you'd likely not even realise it was a Lovecraft piece.
Utter mess and that's a damn shame.
The Good:
Dean Stockwell is on form
The Bad:
Some weird choices for the score
Really crummy sfx
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
The best method of tackling a man with a spear is to dive right onto it
H.P Lovecraft was the original purveyor of hentai