Die, Monster, Die!

Some highlights, but mostly tedious

RELEASED IN 1965 and directed by Daniel Haller, "Die, Monster, Die" (aka Monster of Terror) is a semi-Gothic horror about a young man (Nick Adams) who travels to the estate of his fiancé (Susan Farmer) in England. Unfortunately, her wheelchair-bound father (Boris Karloff) is curiously curmudgeonly and something strange is going on behind the scenes. The movie is based on HP Lovecrafts story "The Colour Out of Space."

While this isnt a vampire flick, the opening is reminiscent of Dracula (young man visits old mans eerie chateau). I used to get this mixed up with The Terror (1963), probably because of Karloff, similarities in the plot, and they both came out in the early/mid-60s. Regrettably, Die, Mo...

American "Reinhart" (Nick Adams) arrives in a small English village seeking the home of his girlfriend "Susan" (Susan Farmer). Shunned by the villagers, he must walk to the stately pile of her wheelchair-bound father "Naham" (Boris Karloff) whereupon things begin to become mysterious for the young visitor as he tries to find out what secrets are being kept hidden. The problem with this is that - well - nothing much actually happens. There is a very slight sense of menace, but there is nothing much by way of accumulation to that. Something is glowing in the greenhouse, and there is a rather angry woman clad in black; but for the most part we can easily guess what is going on, going to happen and the ending is straight out of the ABC of horro...