The Dunwich Horror is a 1970 B-movie 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 co-written by future Academy Award winning director Curtis Hanson. This was the last film of actor Ed Begley. The leading role was offered to Peter Fonda, but he turned it down. Instead, Dean Stockwell played the role of Wilbur Whateley. The film was shot in Mendocino, California. The film opens at the fictional Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts, where Dr. Henry... Armitage 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 to return to the library. She is followed by a stranger, who later introduces himself as Wilbur Whateley . 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 Whateley's hypnotic gaze. Whateley's perusal of the book is cut short by Armitage, who has researched Wilbur's family's sordid past.
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| Release date: | January 14, 1970 |
| Directed by: | Daniel Haller |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 88 Minutes |
| Producer: | Roger Corman, Jack Bohrer, Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson |
| Music by: | Les Baxter |
| Screenplay by: | Curtis Hanson |
| Adapted from: | The Dunwich Horror |