I gotta hand it to Corman and his people. He has a real talent for making a 90 minute movie feel a half hour too long.
There's a single drop of the original Lovecraft story in a big bucket full of Rosemary's Baby. I watched this because of Stockwell's recent passing, and I really wanted to like his performance, but this just isn't the one to put on his in memoriam reel. I don't know if his delivery of his lines are by choice or by the director, but his version of Wilbur is less unholy monstrosity and more boring grad student. The last half hour of the film is cycling between three shots: Sandra Dee writhing and moaning, Stockwell saying "Yog Shoggoth" a hundred times, and a point of view monster killing people extremely slowly with different light filters. You can almost make out a good film here, but man, do you have to squint.
There's a single drop of the original Lovecraft story in a big bucket full of Rosemary's Baby. I watched this because of Stockwell's recent passing, and I really wanted to like his performance, but this just isn't the one to put on his in memoriam reel. I don't know if his delivery of his lines are by choice or by the director, but his version of Wilbur is less unholy monstrosity and more boring grad student. The last half hour of the film is cycling between three shots: Sandra Dee writhing and moaning, Stockwell saying "Yog Shoggoth" a hundred times, and a point of view monster killing people extremely slowly with different light filters. You can almost make out a good film here, but man, do you have to squint.