Credit: Wikimedia Commons In this post we have our Book to Movie review which we normally have on the fourth weekend of the month but I had to postpone it as I said last time . In a Book-To-Movie , we review a work of prose fiction and its movie adaptation. In the previous Book-To-Movie we reviewed H.P. Lovecraft’s short story, “The Outsider”, and its 1995 movie adaptation. We talked about how this short story was one of his lesser known works and that the movie was missing the cosmic horror element so definitive of Lovecraft’s stories. In this month’s Book-To-Movie we have just the opposite: a story that is one of Lovecraft’s most well-known ones (at least among Lovecraft fans) and a movie adaptation that catches the cosmic horror. The story is the novella, “The Dunwich Horror”, and the movie the 1970 American International Pictures (AIP) version. This movie actually does more than convey the cosmic horror of Lovecraft’s stories: it captures the weirdness of his “weird” fiction,...
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