Die, Monster, Die!
Directed by Daniel Haller
Written by Jerry Stohl from a story by H.P. Lovecraft
1965/UK/USA
Alta Vista Productions
First viewing/Netflix rental
Listed in They Shoot Zombies, Don’t They?
[box] Susan Witley: But, Steve, no one ever goes into the greenhouse at night![/box]
Triffids take the next step toward world conquest.
Young Steven Reinhart (Nick Adams) and his fiancee visit her family manse, Whitely Castle. They are not welcome guests. Almost immediately the fiancee’s father Nahum (Boris Karloff) tells him to get out. But the intrepid Reinhart stays to get to the bottom of the mystery of the greenhouse. Nahom has come into possession of a radioactive meteorite that causes plants to grow to gigantic proportions. Unfortunately, the radioactivitely also does a number on humans. How to destroy the stone?
Any movie with an axe-wielding Boris Karloff automatically has something to recommend it. Nick Adams … not so much. I thought the “monsters” here were really creepy and the special effects are decent.
