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. Few have had any budget to speak of, and none but the most tenuously-linked have attained mainstream success, but all have a certain level of cult cachet. These run the gamut from clever and respectful tributes to cynical schlock. Lovecraft's stories, despite a (sometimes deserved) reputation for being uncinematic and exposition-heavy, have spawned a surprising number of film adaptations.

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