Of All the Lovecraft Film Adaptations, We're 100% Sure This Trippy 1970 Horror Movie Is the Best
Psychedelic visuals and a well-used audience insert character make The Dunwich Horror the best Lovecraft screen adaptation.
Despite being a beloved subgenre in the horror realm, the Lovecraftian mythos has been notoriously difficult to adapt to the silver screen. H.P. Lovecraftand his successors dreamed up some truly bizarre-looking gods and monsters, and it takes the efforts of truly talented special effects makeup artists and CGI artists to help render these unholy creations. On top of that, a mainstay of cosmic horror is a crushing, existential dread triggered by the huge, unfathomable Old Ones. It's more than a little difficult to depict this feeling. Even with the cards stacked against translating Lovecraftian tales for film, it’s a popular subgenre with a whole host of entries and devoted fans. In 1970, Daniel Haller released The Dunwich Horror, the filmic version of Lovecraft’s 1929 novella of the same name. Regardless of the many narrative and character changes made to the script, The Dunwich Horror is an impressive rendering of the incomprehensible magnitude of Lovecraftian horror.
