Beyond The Dunwich Horror
At the times when the tale is relating elements of a mysterious nature, as when the monstrous creature first escapes and become the titular horror, Bozzone uses a classical guitar to create a sense of pastoral dread. The sound is beautiful, but undeniably ominous, the plucking of the strings placidly announcing the terror which is lurking somewhere in the forest and hills just beyond reach.
Beyond the Dunwich Horror
When interior scenes of learning and knowledge take place, Bozzone's synths take on an ecclesiastical aura. The sound is akin to one of a small church organ. While there are no scenes which take place in or near a house of worship, knowledge is very much the Whateleys' religion. It might be a hideous inverse of what one might think of as worship, but the ever-ongoing quest for more enlightenment as to what lies beyond human understanding is very much equivalent in Lovecraft's telling.
Director Richard Stanley announced the next addition to his H.P. Lovecraft trilogy will be The Dunwich Horror, here's everything we know about the upcoming horror movie so far. Following the release of his cosmic horror film, Color Out Of Space, the filmmaker expressed an interest in adapting more of the controversial author's stories. Due to its success, Spectrevision green lit Stanley's trilogy with excitement for its next installment, The Dunwich Horror.
The production company behind Stanley's Lovecraft trilogy, SpectreVision, was founded by Elijah Wood (Lord Of The Rings) in 2010. Since then, they have released several critically acclaimed titles, including A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014), Mandy (2018), and Daniel Isn't Real (2019). While SpectreVision is a fairly young production company, they have proven to be master purveyors of successful and enjoyable horror movies in the last decade. When Richard Stanley emerged after over 20 years of writing rather than directing, he proposed an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's 1927 short story "The Colour Out Of Space". When Color Out Of Space premiered, it was met with generally positive reviews. It is one of the rare movies to date that effectively showcases the cosmic energy that can be found in some of Lovecraft's stranger works of science fiction.
Color Out Of Space stands out among the crowd of other Lovecraftian horror movies by adding this intrinsic element. Undoubtedly, SpectreVision took note of its success, which in turn led them to give Stanley the green light on a trilogy featuring the same methods of telling Lovecraft's stories. With the current growing wave of Lovecraftian stories in horror, The Dunwich Horror is a welcome addition to this rising sub-genre, but its story details are largely unknown outside of what's revealed by the movie's source material. Here's everything we know about the movie so far.
Richard Stanley's The Dunwich Horror will follow the original story's main character, Wilbur Whateley, who does not know his father and was raised by his mother. The story focuses primarily on his bizarre birth and the fact that he reaches full adulthood in less than ten years. As the story progresses, it is revealed that his family has a history of practicing witchcraft and spell casting. As a result, Wilbur becomes involved in the dark arts. Stanley's film will retain the elements from the main plot of Lovecraft's 1929 story, but he also revealed that The Dunwich Horror will take place during a post-COVID world during Trump-era politics. Therefore, contemporary conceptions on social, cultural, and political events are woven into this cosmic horror story somehow. Lovecraft fans can also expect to see the inclusion of Miskatonic University, where Re-Animator's Herbert West did his experiments.
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Lovecraft's unique themes, distinct approach, and revisement of convention remain influential today. His cosmic motifs and themes, which favored overt cosmicism over the traditional static horrors of the supernaturally-based Gothic tradition, were brought to forceful and convincing life by his nihilistic, uncompromisingly bleak vision of an ignorant species fumbling around in an unknowable cosmos. A universe void of empathy, unconcerned with a humanity when we were lucky, easily able to destory human life when we were noticed. The world, the cosmos according to Lovecraft, lacked the conservative moral postering of "good" vs. "evil" once so often displayed in such representations of the horror genre as the proper Gothic or the Victorian ghost story. There is no moral significance in Lovecraft, and rather than hampering the emotional effects of his frightful visions, this lack of moral postering makes them undeniably more disturbing.
Several of Lovecraft's motiffs may be followed in these volumes, from the terror and dangers of cultural degeneracy through inbreeding to the horror of mating with alien creatures; from science as a gateway to magic and thought as a gateway to dreams; from his emphasis of isolated, wise if withdrawn outsiders -- professors, professional men, and loners -- alienated from their society and the normally held laws of space and time. When confronted by Ancient Ones and their own fears and inadequacies, mankind is depicted as an insignificant insect in the black cosmic waters of infinity, unable to comprehend let alone defy alien gods and beings from other realities. Going even further, Lovecraft suggests that we are unable to even properly perceive or interpret true reality.
Of even further interest in these volumes is the evolution of Lovecraft's different "phases" of creativity, wherein he preferred different subject matter and choices of approach to the terrible and awesome, and his wide choice of interests. The dedicated reader can notice without difficulty in several of these stories related subjects and ideas that constitute varying phases in his developing thoughts and approach. First, there are traditional supernatural stories written in the Gothic tradition and inspired by Poe, including "The Tomb," "The Picture in the House," "In the Vault," and "Pickman's Model." These all belong to an older horror aesthetic. Besides these are pieces of whimsey and mythology, employing classical Roman/Egyptian/Eastern sources and inspiration: "The Tree" and "Celephais," "Hypnos," etc. Also included are "The White Ship," "The Cats of Ulthar," and "The strange High House in the Mist," some of his Dunsany inspired Dream Tales, alongside more personal fantasies like "The Outsider" and the inventive terrors of "The Music of Erich Zann." The New York stories ("The Terrible Old Man," "The Horror at Red Hook," and "He") are joined by such horrific science fiction spectacles like "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" and From Beyond" and such pulpish work-for-hire fare as "Herbert West: Re-Animator" are overshadowed by such mythos pieces as "The Haunter of the Dark," "The Call of the Cthulhu," "The Whisperer in Darkness" and "The Shadow Out of Time."
The times they were a-scary when The Dunwich Horror (1970) came out. It's a supernatural tale of foolish humans trying to free the demon hoard from beyond. Based on an H.P. Lovecraft story, it may be dated by the excess of psychedelic lighting, but it also offers the only, albeit brief, skin from Gidget gal Sandra Dee. She plays a young virgin who is to be Satan's bride. Sandra sort of shows the side of her breast--it's not much, but it's still hot. Donna Baccala also bares boobs mental hospital, thrashing around with several artistically lit unknowns playing dream demons. It's enough to make us all horny little devils. 041b061a72