The Dunwich Horror

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Follow that Car</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.....Curtis Lee Hamilton, Henry Rosenbaum </B></div> <div> <B>                 & Ronald Silkosky</B></div> <div> <B>Music..............Les Baxter (</B><I><B>The Beast Within, Frogs, The Raven</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Producers.......James H. Nicholson & Samuel Z. Arkoff</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Roger Corman</B></div> <div> <B>Based on "The Dunwich Horror" by H.P. Lovecraft</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Wilbur Whateley..Dean Stockwell (Beverly Hills Cop II, Blue Velvet)    Dr. Armitage.....Ed Begley (Dark City, Hang 'em High, 12 Angry Men)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Corey........Loyd Bochner (Mazes and Monsters, The Night Walker)</B></div> <div> <B>Elizabeth........Donna Baccala            </B></div> <div> <B>Old Whateley.....Sam Jaffe (Ben Hur, The Day The Earth Stood Still)</B></div> <div> <B>Nurse Cora.......Talia Coppola-Shire (Rocky, The Sentinal, Godfather)</B></div> <div> <B>Lavinia..........Joanne Moore Jordan</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Raskin.......Michael Fox</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: More weird than scary, this period piece features a big weird set, big weird actors, and big weird music. Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell and the rest of the cast appear catatonic throughout. The special effects are an amusing 60's psycholelic washout, which is to be expected for 1969, but the movie is a good adaptation and a must see for those who have enjoyed other adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft stories. Crystals, birds, rituals, things from other dimensions, the "old ones", all the requisite fertility cult tropes realized in this film live on in Evil Dead and From Beyond, among other films that are on the one hand, much better than this primitive effort, but still owe this film a nod. As in most movies based on HP Lovecraft, no project can be completed without passages from the book of the dead. The music of score wizard Les Baxter is the best part of the movie. The haunting score is disturbing in a very Lovecraftian sense.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Before man, a superior race existed, "the old ones" they are called in the book of the dead. Wilbur Whateley the great grandson of occultist Oliver Whateley, and the heir to the Dunwich horror laments that frightened people kill what they don't understand. He travels to Harvard to see the Necronomicon and meets Dr. Armitage University in Arkum(Unnameable) who wrote the definitive academic work on Wilbur's great grandfather the occultist whom the people of Dunwich hanged for his "practices". Nancy, filthy with virginity, decides to give Wilbur a ride to Dunwich where the people they encounter are none too wild to see Wilbur. Would you like a cup of tea at Wilbur's Gothic horror mansion? Crystals cause vision. Great theme song and horror movie music  While Wilbur makes Tea, Nancy bumps into Grandfather. Since Wilbur has relieved her car of its coil wire, Nancy will have to sleep over. Grandfather, gesturing toward an attic door asks Wilbur, "Suppose she goes up there?" Nancy's sleep is troubled by an orgiastic vision of an orgiastic cult. Rites and chants from the book of the dead might be able to bring back "the old ones". A portrait on the wall shows that Nancy bears a striking resemblance to Wilbur's mother. Oliver had the book, and it didn't work.                     </B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>