Yet another H.P. Lovecraft story makes it on the blog. This time you're more transfixed by Dean Stockwell's fuzzy eye slugs, than the storyline.
Plot: In the dated village of Dunwich, the family Whateley have lived and followed in the religion of the Necronomicon and it's teachings, much to the dismay of the local God fearing sort- who figured a good old burning would fix things. A few years on, the latest member of the Whateley clan-Dean Stockwell (Quantum Leap) visits a professor at Miskatonic University and has a butchers at his copy of the Necronomicon. Seems the old chap less than willing to allow the book out of his sight. So, Dean goes and seduces the librarian, nicks off with her to the family home, gets into a row with his grandad and does his darndest to raise the 'Old Ones' from their slumber- all the while his rather odd brother is locked away in the house and getting crankier all the time.
Fun Fact: The script is co-written by Curtis Hanson (Wonderboys, L.A Confidential), there's a small role for Talia Shire (Rocky's Mrs) and produced by Roger Corman, though it really does seem more Hammer Horror than anything else.
Plot: In the dated village of Dunwich, the family Whateley have lived and followed in the religion of the Necronomicon and it's teachings, much to the dismay of the local God fearing sort- who figured a good old burning would fix things. A few years on, the latest member of the Whateley clan-Dean Stockwell (Quantum Leap) visits a professor at Miskatonic University and has a butchers at his copy of the Necronomicon. Seems the old chap less than willing to allow the book out of his sight. So, Dean goes and seduces the librarian, nicks off with her to the family home, gets into a row with his grandad and does his darndest to raise the 'Old Ones' from their slumber- all the while his rather odd brother is locked away in the house and getting crankier all the time.
Fun Fact: The script is co-written by Curtis Hanson (Wonderboys, L.A Confidential), there's a small role for Talia Shire (Rocky's Mrs) and produced by Roger Corman, though it really does seem more Hammer Horror than anything else.
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