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randome

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15. On a side note, it will soon be the 50th anniversary of the release of Die, Monster, Die!
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 06:19 PM
Oct 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die,_Monster,_Die!

In their book Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft, Andrew Migliore and John Strysik call Die, Monster, Die! a "textbook example of the walking-around-endlessly-in-a-big-house school of filmmaking."[5] G. Noel Gross, writing for the DVD review website DVD Talk, writes: "The plodding plot would be more painful if the flick were longer, but the intriguing meld of gothic horror and contemporary sci-fi is hard to pass up."

Yes, it was a hokey movie only loosely based on Lovecraft but it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

So did its companion movie in the U.S., Planet of the Vampires.

In the USA, American International Pictures released the film on 27 October 1965 as the first feature on a double bill with Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires (1965).[3] In the UK the film was trade-shown on 4 February 1966 and released on the 20th, supported by Roger Corman's 1963 film The Haunted Palace (also based on a Lovecraft story).

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