He swiftly sends the odd visitor on his way but when Nancy, the young student who gives him a lift back home, fails to return Armitage fears the worst. Given that the book contains information on how to unlock the gates of hell itself, it's perhaps understandable that Armitage (played by Ed Begley) is a little perturbed when Wilbur rolls up to his pad with his request for access. The Dunwich Horror, originally released by AIP in 1970 and now given a Blu-ray re-birth by Arrow Video, is one of the better stabs at capturing that strange, psychedelic world of Lovecraft - a world where vast, tentacled beasts lurk ominously on the threshold - even if it still disappoints as much as it entertains.Ĭult favourite Dean Stockwell is Wilbur Whateley, the grandson of a much feared necromancer, who arrives at Arkham University eager to read the powerful, and age-old, Necronomicon book which lecturer Dr Henry Armitage keeps under lock and key. There's something a little too otherworldly, intangible and downright odd about the Rhode Island-born writer's work that usually leaves Hollywood - particularly the low budget exploitation angled side of tinsel town, who have traditionally been drawn to his very particular brand of psychological dread and foreboding - floundering. Lovecraft has been tackled many times by film-makers down the years but rarely with much success.
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