Director: Daniel Haller
Writer: Jerry Sohl, based on a story by H.P. LovecraftStars:
Year: 1965
Runtime: 1:18:36.837
Total Bitrate: 33.44 Mbps
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 30000 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1747 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Subtitles: Negative
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Scream Factory continues cranking out classic A.I.P. horror with their January 21st Blu-ray release Karloff's Die, Monster, Die!
Die, Monster, Die! (which is German for The, Monster, The!) was based on Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space" and directed by Daniel Haller, who went on to do The Dunwich Horror, another A.I.P. film based on a Lovecraft story. The film was previously released by MGM on their Midnite Movies line and later actually paired up with The Dunwich Horror when MGM later reissued several of their Midnite Movies as double features.
The film (known as Monster of Terror in the UK) moves at a bit of a deliberate pace - like a lot of the A.I.P. stuff I've seen - but there are more than enough frights and twists to keep the film constantly engaging and entertaining. It' doesn't rank up there with the best of the genre like Pit & The Pendulum or House of Usher, but it's certainly a lot of spooky fun. With solid acting from Adams and Karloff (who performs in a wheelchair for nearly the entire film), an appropriately eerie score from Hammer regular Don Banks, and some wonderfully haunting imagery (see screens 7 and 8) make this one well worth a look for Gothic Horror fans.
