The Dunwich Horror

Based On the book by H. P. Lovecraft

The Dunwich Horror is a 1970 American supernatural horror film directed by Daniel Haller, and starring Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, and Ed Begley. A loose adaptation of the novella of the same name by H. P. Lovecraft, the film concerns a young female graduate student who is targeted by a man attempting to use her in an occult ritual taken from the Necronomicon. The screenplay was co-written by Curtis Hanson, while Roger Corman served as an executive producer on the film. The film's distributor, American International Pictures, had tentatively planned an adaptation of the Lovecraft story in 1963.

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Release date:

1970

Director:

Daniel Haller

Cast:

Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Sandra Dee, Talia Shire, Jason Wingreen

Genre:

Horror

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

1970 in adaptations