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Die, Monster, Die! (1965 England)

 
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Bud Brewster
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PostPosted: Tue May 05, 2015 3:21 pm    Post subject: Die, Monster, Die! (1965 England) Reply with quote



Nick Adams comes to visit his college girlfriend (Suzan Farmer) at her Gothic English mansion in the countryside. But he knows something odd is going on because her father (Boris Karloff) is hostile, her mother (Freda Jackson) is dying from some strange disease, the butler keels over while serving dinner, and all the local folks hate the family.

Eventually Nick discovers that Karloff is using fragments of a radioactive meteorite to create strange plants in the greenhouse. But the radioactivity is turning everybody into monsters, starting with the servants, then Karloff's wife, and finally Boris himself.

The monster makeup is fairly good, except for Karloff's in the climax, when he gets a mega-dose of radiation that turns his hands and face metallic silver (actually a stuntman wears the makeup). Director Daniel Haller knew it looked bad, so he superimposed a hazy glow. Filmed in color and wide-screen format. Adapted from an H. P. Lovecraft story ("The Color Out of Space").

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Here's the trailer in widescreen and the movie in 4:3 (a bit dark, too). I've never seen this one, and I think I'll try to find a copy with a better picture before I watch it.
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_________________ DIE MONSTER DIE - Trailer


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__Die Monster Die (1965) (The Monster of Terror)


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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've got this on Blu-ray. I always enjoy Nick Adams and the over-the-top AIP atmospheric effects.

That being said, this film is rather dull. It has that feeling of, "We have these actors under contract for another week and we have some leftover sets..."
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