Humanoids From the Deep (1980), an unacknowledged exploitation version of The Shadow Over Innsmouth.The Horror of the title is represented as a huge red mass of. Still, Dean Stockwell's mustache is probably the scariest part of the film. Modernized version, heavy on sex and psychedelia but retaining many elements of the original story. A middling effort directed by Vernon Sewell, but enhanced by the presence of horror veterans Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff, and Michael Gough. Directed by Daniel Haller, who was the production designer for several Corman films. Yes, the trend of adding a Love Interest continues. The POV character, in the story a surveyor visiting the area on business, becomes an American student visiting his girlfriend. Other notable changes: The setting is moved from 1920s Arkham, Massachusetts to 1960s Arkham, somewhere in England - probably to justify casting English-accented Boris Karloff. Like other versions, it dispenses with the irrational (and unfilmable) "colour," substituting a Sickly Green Glow which creates a fairly effective sense of contamination. The first adaptation of The Colour Out of Space. The title (of a poem by Edgar Allan Poe) was added to cash in on the success of Corman's Poe films it was originally known as The Haunted Village. Many changes from the original story, including backdating it about 30 years, but the biggest changes are to the main character (a celibate, bookish teenager in the original, Vincent Price with a hot wife in the film) and the premise ( bodily resurrection and identity theft versus Mind Control from beyond the grave). First acknowledged adaptation of Lovecraft into the film medium, directed by the legendary Roger Corman. Based on The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
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