Based loosely on HP Lovecraft's story of the same name (with a heaping helping of Rosemary's Baby thrown in), this 1970 movie follows Dean Stockwell as he tries to enact a plan to bring "The Old Ones" back to rule the world. His plan consists of stealing a book from a library, giving roofies to Sandra Dee and allowing his monstrous twin to terrorize the country folk of Dunwich.
The acting is kind of chintzy. Talia Shire and Lloyd Bockner bring some class to the whole thing but it doesn't help that the weird editing makes some of the exchanges very stilted. Sandra "Gidget" Dee doesn't have much to do except channel Mia Farrow at her loopiest.
As with all Lovecraft stories, the hard part is somehow showing the unshowable monster. This movie chooses to invert the color schemes a lot and, in one inspired bit, demonstrate the movement of the monster by showing wind whipping over water.
Not really a horrifying movie (unless you count sex with Dean Stockwell horrifying). It isn't the best thing I've seen.
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