Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!JAFFE From: JAFFE@RUTGERS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Lovecraft-based movies Message-ID: <2548@topaz.ARPA> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 16:37:45 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2548 Posted: Mon Jul 8 16:37:45 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 07:30:06 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 29 From: mtgzz!leeper (m.r.leeper) Boyajian says: >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". How's about: (3) THE SHUTTERED ROOM, Troy-Schenck, 1967, screenplay by D. B. Ledrov and N. Tanchuck, from a novel by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth. With Gig Young, Carol Lynley, Oliver Reed. [Lee, pg. 437] "Filmography is a way of life." Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper