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Iowan auteur Carrsan T. Morrissey's cosmic horror of The Tower serves as a preamble to the Lovecraftan slice of the 1970s that is The Dunwich Horror.
"A sterling example of an early independent-studio horror opus lifting experimental cinema imagery and kinetics to evoke 'the unspeakable' - in this case, adopting and adapting recreations of imagery from Jack Smith's infamous Flaming Creatures." - Steve Bissette, Cryptid Cinema
"I wonder what Lovecraft would think about how psychedelic this movie treated his story." - Sam Panico, B&S About Movies
"Should be of interest to Lovecraft lovers." - The Phantom of the Movies
Riding high on their successful adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe, Roger Corman and American International Pictures took on that other titan of literary terror, H.P. Lovecraft, in The Dunwich Horror!
Dean Stockwell stars as Wilbur Whateley, a mysterious young man who travels from the small town of Dunwich to the library of the Miskatonic University which holds one of the only copies of the Necronomicon, a legendary book of occult lore that Wilber hopes to borrow. Graduate student Nancy Wagner (Sandra Dee) falls under his malign influence and travels with him back to his home where Wilbur has plans to use her in a ritual to raise "The Old Ones", cosmic beings from another dimension. But who, or what, is in the locked room at the top of the stairs? And what will happen if they get out?
Directed by Daniel Haller, genius art director of numerous Corman classics, this was also the first screenwriting credit for Curtis Hanson, who would later direct the multi award-winning L.A. Confidential.
Plus the short film:
The Tower
Directed by Carrsan T. Morrissey (The Salvages)
A seemingly harmless party game leads to a horrifying spiral into madness, violence, and cosmic horror.
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