Review – Die, Monster, Die!

Whom are we to pity more, erstwhile if decrepit star Boris Karloff or source story author H.P. Lovecraft? On the one hand, Lovecraft died years before they made this stinker, so at least he didn’t have to suffer through what became of his work. On the other hand, perhaps he was done the greater injustice. After all, Karloff could at least have declined the role; arguably he thus deserved what he got. Perhaps if this had been based on one of the author’s lesser stories this awful gothic mishmash mightn’t have been so bad. But “The Colour Out of Space” (or “The Color of Outer Space” if you prefer the AMC intro speech) is one of his best. To watch the elusive yet overpowering horror of the story turned into a cheap pageant of rubber monsters with run-of-the-mill, scientific explanations was almost too much to bear. Die, movie, die! See if desperate