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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792848660
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen
ISBN: 0792848667
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: SpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledEnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 20, 2001
Running Time: 80 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: October 27, 1965
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American International Pictures production designer Daniel Haller donned the director's jodhpurs for the studio's second attempt at bringing horror master H.P. Lovecraft to drive-in audiences. The script, adapted from the author's favorite story, "The Colour Out of Space," by science fiction scribe Jerry Sohl (who later adapted another AIP/Lovecraft film, The Curse of the Crimson Altar), moves the location from rural New England to present-day Great Britain, where American Stephen Reinhart (Nick Adams) is visiting the ancestral home of his fiancée (Suzan Farmer from Dracula, Prince of Darkness). The girl's father (Boris Karloff) demands his departure, warning of a curse by his warlock ancestor. Said curse is actually a radioactive meteor, which mutates not only the local flora and fauna (the "zoo from hell" sequence, where Adams and Farmer encounter monstrous creatures in a greenhouse, is a campy/creepy highlight), but Farmer's mother (Freda Jackson), and eventually Karloff, who becomes a glowing zombie before the house burns in typical AIP fashion. Like the studio's previous effort, Roger Corman's The Haunted Palace, the picture is Lovecraft-lite, toning down the story's sense of unearthly horror in favor of standard-issue spook-show shenanigans. But Karloff's presence, though infirm, lends to the adequately chilly atmosphere, as does Haller's eye for dark-and-dreary art direction. Haller later directed another uneven Lovecraft film, The Dunwich Horror. MGM's full-screen VHS (and widescreen DVD) print has aged gracefully, with only minor surface damage. --Paul Gaita
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And with that emphatic plea, we find our young hero coming off a train into a standard village with standard drinkers and standard gossipers and scoffers.
A very unfriendly town: whenever our hero (played by Nick Adams) he says "where's the Whitley place" no one helps him, everyone scoffs at him and no one explains why. Usually there's a person in these kinds of movies that explains the evil that is in the inevitable spooky mansion on the hill but not this time. Quite annoying to ... Read More
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Although I had worked as Nick's secretary I missed this film until it was recently shown on the HD network. I was surprised. The color of the print and story wasn't bad for those days. I bought it and have watched it a few times. I'm glad the HD network made it available for viewing. It's not Blu Ray or a HD DVD but still a very good transfer.
The Nick I mention is Nick Adams who starred as Johnny Yuma in the TV series. His son Jeb, starred in FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC. I was glad Amazon had the DVD.
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Boris Karloff's sinister presence cannot save this disappointing H.P. Lovecraft adaptation. "Die, Monster, Die!" plods along until its effective climax, with mad scientist Boris disintegrating in classic fashion. The AIP production is somewhat reminiscent of Karloff's 1936 sci-fi thriller "The Invisible Ray." Though he was determined to keep working, the aging horror icon should have been more selective in his choice of projects.
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Released in 1965 Die, Monster, Die was one of Karloff's last movies and at the time thanks to Roger Corman, Karloff was having a resurgence of his brilliant career. The title of the movie makes it sound like some silly monster movie and had this been made a decade earlier it probably would have been (not that it would be a bad thing). But for the most part Die, Monster, Die is played straight, which is good, but does hurt the final act a bit.
While Die, Monster, Die may not go down as one ... Read More
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