The Dunwich Horror, originally released by AIP in 1970 and now given a Blu-ray re-birth by Arrow Video, is one of the better stabs at capturing that strange, psychedelic world of Lovecraft - a world where vast, tentacled beasts lurk ominously on the threshold - even if it still disappoints as much as it entertains.Ĭult favourite Dean Stockwell is Wilbur Whateley, the grandson of a much feared necromancer, who arrives at Arkham University eager to read the powerful, and age-old, Necronomicon book which lecturer Dr Henry Armitage keeps under lock and key. There's something a little too otherworldly, intangible and downright odd about the Rhode Island-born writer's work that usually leaves Hollywood - particularly the low budget exploitation angled side of tinsel town, who have traditionally been drawn to his very particular brand of psychological dread and foreboding - floundering. Lovecraft has been tackled many times by film-makers down the years but rarely with much success.
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