A city couple relocating to a home in the forest discover a commune on the neighbouring land is home to a cult of sasquatch worshippers harbouring sinister secrets...
1971 Dir. Amando de Ossorio AKA Crypt of the Blind Dead Mark of the Devil Part 4: - Tombs of the Blind Dead Night of the Blind Dead Revenge from Planet Ape (!) The Blind Dead The Night of the Blind - Terror Tombs of the Blind Dead Whilst on holiday, Roger and Virginia bump into Betty – an old friend of Virginia’s. Roger invites her to join them on a train ride the next day. It all becomes a bit overwhelming for Virginia though - she's annoyed by Roger's blatant flirting with Betty and also confused about her own feelings for Betty, with whom she had a relationship when they were in college together. She jumps from the train to seek solace. Finding refuge after nightfall in the ruins of an ancient monastery, Virginia is horribly murdered and her blood greedily guzzled by the resurrected corpses of the Templar knights buried in the ruins. When she doesn’t return to the hotel, Roger and Betty set out to find her. They don’t however bargain on running into centuries ol...
Written and directed by Mathieu Turi, The Deep Dark may not be a direct adaptation of the work of HP Lovecraft, but it is certainly a love letter to him, and its narrative unfurls within a world in which the Cthulhu mythos exists (with nods to the Necronomicon, Cthulhu, the Great Old Ones and the ‘mad Arab’ Abdul Alhazred). Set in Northern France in the 1950s, it tells of a group of miners who are tasked with escorting a professor deep underground so he can collect data for his research. It soon becomes evident, however, that the professor has an ulterior motive, and the discovery of an ancient crypt unleashes a primordial evil... Many of Lovecraft's stories tell of the existential horror experienced by his characters whose discovery of forbidden knowledge reveals unspeakable, incomprehensible truths about human existence, throwing everything we thought we knew into question. Inter-dimensional doorways are conjured and all manner of unknowable cosmic horrors lumber/crawl/slither t...