Die, Monster, Die!
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Theatrical release poster with artwork by Reynold Brown
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| Directed by | Daniel Haller |
| Produced by | Pat Green executive James H. Nicholson Samuel Z. Arkoff |
| Written by | Jerry Sohl |
| Based on |
The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft |
| Starring |
Boris Karloff Nick Adams Freda Jackson Suzan Farmer Terence De Marney |
| Music by | Don Banks |
| Cinematography | Paul Beeson |
| Edited by | Alfred Cox |
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Alta Vista Film Productions
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| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
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Running time
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80 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
Die, Monster, Die! (British title: Monster of Terror) is a 1965 horror film directed by Daniel Haller. The film is a loose adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's story The Colour Out of Space. It was shot in February/March 1965 at Shepperton Studios under the working title The House at the End of the World.
Stephen Reinhart, an American scientist (Nick Adams), pays a visit to the estate of his British fiancée's family. He finds a scorched area of countryside near an enormous crater. Local townspeople are hostile toward him and refuse to either drive him to his destination or talk about the family that lives there. The source of all these problems is later revealed to be a radioactive meteorite kept hidden in the basement by his girlfriend's father, Nahum Witley (Boris Karloff), who has been using the radiation to mutate plant and animal life, with horrific consequences to his subjects and to members of his family. Nahum's wife, Latetia, mutated by the meteorite and driven insane, dies in an attack on Steve and Susan. After Helga, a maid who has been mutated and driven mad by radiation, comes after Nahum, he is mutated after his attacker falls on the meteorite and is killed. The Nahum monster attacks Steve and Susan, but falls from a balcony and bursts into flame when he hits the floor, setting the entire Witley mansion ablaze. Steve and Susan escape the burning mansion, and never look back.
In the USA, American International Pictures released the film on 27 October 1965 as the first feature on a double bill with Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires (1965). In the UK the film was trade-shown on 4 February 1966 and released on the 20th, supported by Roger Corman's 1963 film The Haunted Palace (also based on a Lovecraft story).
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