The Dunwich Horror (1970)

• Directed by Daniel Haller
• Written by Curtis Hanson, Henry Rosenbaum, Ronald Silkosky
• Stars Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley
• Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA1WCp8hGB0

Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone

It’s an okay telling of a Lovecraft tale. Awesome house and settings. Decent, though kind of talky, adaptation. Watchable, but overall pretty middling.

Synopsis

A woman moans in pain surrounded by strange old people and mystical symbols; there’s one on her forehead. Some very cool animated credits roll.

Dr. Armitage hands over the Necronomicon to Nancy Wagner, one of his students. Wilbur Whately walks up and asks her if he can take a look at the book. At first, she refuses, but she looks into his eyes and gives it over to him. Wilber reads the book, and it’s about how to release the Old Ones. Armitage confronts Wilbur, and when he finds out who he is, he wants to get together in Dunwich. Armitage refuses to allow Wilbur to borrow the priceless book, but Wilbur decides to get close to Nancy instead.

He misses his bus home, so Nancy volunteers to drive him to Dunwich. He invites her inside, and it’s a really cool old place. He’s nice enough, and normal-looking, but also…