Monster Die Die! Movie Review

A young man (Nick Adams) visits his fiancee's family home, even though everyone in the neighboring village advises him against it. He finds his prospective father-in-law is a reclusive, wheelchair-bound scientist (Boris Karloff) who's been fooling around with a radioactive meteorite in his laboratory. As a result, he's got a greenhouse full of mutant animals and his disfigured wife runs around the estate in a veil scaring people. Eventually the meteorite gives Karloff back his ability to walk, but in the process changes him into a glowing, metallic monster. This adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's classic “The Color Out of Space” is pretty pale compared to the original, but Karloff (in one of his last roles and beginning to look a bit peaked) still delivers a great performance, investing every line with quiet menace. AKA: Monster of Terror.

1965 80m/C GB Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Suzan Farmer, Patrick Magee; D: Daniel Haller; M: Don Banks. VHS, LV NO