Comments on: The Dunwich Horror: Sweet… Horrendipity?

By: octopod

octopod — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:49:15 +0000

I’ll point out, also, that the movie “Chilean Gothic” is a Spanish-language adaptation of “Pickman’s Model”. Quite good.

(And if you give money to the HPLHS, the same folks responsible for the super-awesome Call of Cthulhu movie mentioned above, they’ll maybe sometime be able to finish The Whisperer in Darkness!)

By: LiiLii

LiiLii — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:35:56 +0000

Cthulhu is pleased.

Cthulhu fhtagn indeed.

By: Tequila

Tequila — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:00:17 +0000

Happy to hear someone mentioned In The Mouth of Madness! So many I know HATE that movie. I think it’s because it loses a lot of its punch outside of a theater setting. The ending works so much better when you’re in a movie theater and wondering just what is waiting for you when you walk out.

By: misty

misty — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:21:22 +0000

EEK EEK EEK! The Saltair Pavillion is __still there__. That’s amazing!

I LOVE the movie Carnival of Souls. I was practically jumping up and down when I found a copy for $3 at a Halloween store last weekend.

I was so curious about the Pavillion after watching Carnival of Souls that I researched a bit and found an interesting documentary about the Saltair area, narrated by John Waters. It’s called Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea. Strange place. I want to visit one day, except not in the summer when all the fish die.

Everything I found on the net led me to believe the Pavilion had been torn down. How excellent to know it hasn’t!

By: Jerem Morrow

Jerem Morrow — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:28:36 +0000

John Carpenter’s the THING!

By: Skerror

Skerror — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:03:22 +0000

Mer, my nephew and I love that show…it’s like Coilhouse age-appropriated for the wee lil’ supervillains!

By: Paul Komoda

Paul Komoda — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:52:53 +0000

I’m so pleased that someone else appreciates The Dunwich Horror for the anomaly that it is!
I confess that the film version of The Dunwich Horror was a sort of “gateway” introduction to all things Lovecraftian back in my gradeschool days, and made me take an interest in my mother’s(!)paperback editions….the ones with the creepy John Holmes*illustrations on the covers.

Giving credit where it’s due, it’s one of the first films that actually attempted to show one of HPL’s monsters onscreen, even if it does look like a big rubbery sunflower in the end.
The soundtrack is 70’s occult-chic at it’s best and I’ve always loved that writhing poster image.

* Not who yer thinkin’!

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:43:47 +0000

I have a soft spot for the HPLHS’s silent movie version of the Call of Cthulhu – possibly the most accurate adaptation and it works so well.

And whilst the English town in Suffolk, that has mostly fallen into the sea is certainly pronounced “Dunnich”, I don’t think there is any consensus on how Lovecraft would have pronounced his New England version.

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By: an9ie

an9ie — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:40:51 +0000

Fascinating! Thanks for posting this. I’ve just realised how lacking my diet is in 60s horror. And were those hippie clowns in that park benchy scene?

P.S. I’ve just realised that young Dean Stockwell looks a little like my boyfriend. This is … disturbing.