Product Description

Die Monster Die!Boris Karloff takes center stage in this "menagerie of horros" (Motion Picture Daily) that "spins out shock after shock" (Boxoffice)! Like a deadly potion bubbling with eerie mansions secret experiments and a warning never to look in the basement this mesmerizing movie about a mad English scientist (are there any other kind?) is "pure haunted-house hokum all the way" (Los Angeles Times).The Dunwich HorrorSingle white warlock seeks beautiful blond babe to join him at the altar - the sacrificial altar! When the son of Satan (Dean Stockwell) seduces a wide-eyed college student (Sandra Dee) it's a match made in hell in this "exceptional truly engrossing film of the supernatural" (Los Angeles Times) where the romance is hot... and the terror is bone-chilling!System Requirements:Running Time: 167 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 027616920607 Manufacturer No: 1008026

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37229 in DVD
• Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
• Released on: 2005-09-20
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 167 minutes

Customer Reviews

Don't know what the Old Gent from Providence would have thought...
On the big screen adaptions of H.P. Lovecraft have been few and really nothing to write home about. Probably the reason why is that, unlike say Stephen King, HPL's characters are pretty much doomed victims. They have come into contact with power so alien and vast that their destruction is assured. Humans can't win. His protagonists are always male, bookish: scholars, antiquarians. Characters such as these were prevelant in horror fiction back in the late 19th early 20th century. Another strike is that the horrors in his fiction is not visceral but cosmic in power and scope. Ed Begley is fine as Professor Armitage, Dean Stockwell rather odd as Wilbur Whatley and Sandra Dee a character who never existed in any Lovecraft story as sex did not figure into his tales. The chilling effect of HPL's stories is that we are afforded only brief glimpses of the Great Old Ones that force to recoil in horror. Visual effects circa 1970 could not do them justice and even John Carpenter makes the mistake of showing too much in IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS -- probably one of the best Lovecraftian movies ever done. THE DUNWICH HORROR, having said all of that is still goofy and kinda fun entertainment. I tend to collect films based on HPL and will watch this movie from time to time. Among the AI films I still think Corman's THE HAUNTED PALACE (based loosely on a Poe poem and Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward") is probably the best of the lot. The HPL Society adaption of THE CALL OF CTHULHU is probably the best Lovecraft adaption of them all. Have to wait and see what happens with the upcoming AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS.

buy the book
saw this movie in the early 70's on tv when i was a kid. i forgot about it until i found it recently in big lots for $2.99. i remembered little bits and pieces. oh yes, i didn't remember how B-O-R-I-N-G it was. ergh! i should have left it there. this version of the lovecraft story is about frightening as a roll of paper towels. go buy the book. really.

Die Monster Die/The Dunwich Horror
A Good double feature and it arrived in time and in great shape, like all Amazon purchases.