Die, Monster, Die! (British title: Monster of Terror) is a British-American 1965 horror film directed by Daniel Haller. The film is a loose adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's story The Colour Out of Space. It was shot in February and March 1965 at Shepperton Studios under the working title The House at the End of the World.
American International Pictures released the film as a double feature with Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires (1965).
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Plot
Stephen Reinhart, an American scientist (Nick Adams), pays a visit to the estate of his British fiancée's family. He finds a scorched area of countryside near an enormous crater. Local townspeople are hostile toward him and refuse to either drive him to his destination or talk about the family that lives there. The source of all these problems is later revealed to be a radioactive meteorite kept hidden in the basement by his girlfriend's father, Nahum Witley (Boris Karloff), who has been using the radiation to mutate plant and animal life, with horrific consequences to his subjects and to members of his family. Nahum's wife, Latetia, mutated by the meteorite and driven insane, dies in an attack on Steve and Susan. After Helga, a maid who has been mutated and driven mad by radiation, comes after Nahum, he is mutated after his attacker falls on the meteorite and is killed. The Nahum monster attacks Steve and Susan, but falls from a balcony and bursts into flame when he hits the floor, setting the entire Witley mansion ablaze. Steve and Susan escape the burning mansion, and never look back.
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Cast
- Boris Karloff as Nahum Witley
- Nick Adams as Stephen Reinhart
- Freda Jackson as Letitia Witley
- Suzan Farmer as Susan Witley
- Terence De Marney as Merwyn
- Patrick Magee as Dr. Henderson
- Paul Farrell as Jason
- Leslie Dwyer as Potter
- Harold Goodwin as taxi driver
- Sydney Bromley as Pierce
- Sheila Raynor as Miss Bailey
Release
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). In the UK, the film was shown to the film trade on 4 February 1966 and released on the 20th the same month, supported by Roger Corman's film The Haunted Palace (1963), which is also based on a Lovecraft story.
Critical reaction
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". 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".
Comic book adaption
- Dell Movie Classic: Die, Monster, Die! (March 1966)
See also
- List of American films of 1965
References
External links
- Die, Monster, Die! at AllMovie
- Die, Monster, Die! on IMDb
- Die, Monster, Die! at Rotten Tomatoes
- Die, Monster, Die! at the TCM Movie Database
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