The Dunwich Horror (film)
The Dunwich Horror is a 1970 Bmovie from American International Pictures directed by Daniel Haller and produced by Roger Corman. The film was based on the short story of the same name by H.P. Lovecraft with a script cowritten by future Academy Award winner Curtis Hanson.
The film begins with the groaning of a woman. The camera slowly pans to show two elderly women who look like twins and an elderly man who are watching a woman writhe and moan with the pain of childbirth on a bed in an oldfashioned looking bedroom. She is then led out of the room by the elderly man, who is later revealed as the elder Whateley.The film continues, after the opening credits, at the fictional Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts, where Dr. Henry Armitage Begley has just finished a lecture on the local history and the very rare and priceless Necronomicon. He gives the book to his student Nancy Wagner Dee to return to the library. She is followed by a stranger, who later introduces himself as Wilbur Whateley Stockwell. Whateley asks to see the book, and though it is closing time and the book is reputedly the only copy in existence, Nancy allows it under the influence of Whateleys hypnotic gaze. ........
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