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Subject: Lovecraft-based movies
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 16:34:13 EDT
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From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (JERRY BOYAJIAN)

> From: bader (miles bader) @ cmu-psy-a	(actually Anthony A. Datri)

> 2) I have seen the movie "The Dunwich Horror" which was supposed to
>    be based on Lovecraft's story of the same name, but really
>    wasn't. (Stella Stevens in a Lovecraft movie......), but a book I
>    have says that there have been "at least four" movies made out of
>    Lovecraft.  Anyone know what they were?

Consulting:

Weinberg, Robert E. & Edward P. Berglund, READER'S GUIDE TO THE
	CTHULHU MYTHOS ["Second Revised Edition"] (Albuquerque:
	Silver Scarab Press, 1973)

Lee, Walt, REFERENCE GUIDE TO FANTASTIC FILMS [3 volumes] (Los
	Angeles: Chelsea-Lee Books, 1972-74)

I found references to three film adaptations of Lovecraft,
including THE DUNWICH HORROR (regardless of how close, or not,
as the case may be, you think it comes to Lovecraft, it *is*
still a film version of the story). The other two are:

(1) THE HAUNTED PALACE, American-International, 1963, screenplay
	by Charles Beaumont, adapted from "The Case of Charles
	Dexter Ward" (with a little E. A. Poe thrown in for
	good measure).

(2) DIE, MONSTER, DIE! [a.k.a. MONSTER OF TERROR], American
	International, 1965, screenplay by Jerry Sohl, adapted
	from "The Colour Out of Space".

The supposed fourth film may well have been made after the above
reference works were published. I don't recall any other film
based on Lovecraft's work, though. A few years ago, a small
company made plans to film a movie called, if I can remember
correctly, THE SPELL OF CTHULHU, which was an "original" story,
not an adaptation. Haven't heard a word about it since.


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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