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''Dark Intruder'' (1965), AKA ''Black Cloak''

==Summary==


"He killed with the power of demons a million years old!" In this failed TV pilot turned feature film, Police call in an amateur Victorian seventh-son-of-a-seventh-son occult detective and his dwarf manservant and Chinese sorcerer sidekicks to help solve series of sinister murders committed in connection with a San Francisco socialite's monstrous twin.

==Details==

* Release Date: 1965
* Country/Language: UK, English
* Genres/Technical: Mystery, Horror, Adventure, Fantasy, black-and-white
* Runtime: 59 min (generally formatted for a 30-minute commercial television slot)
* Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Peter Mark Richman, Judi Meredith, Charles Bolender, Werner Klemperer, Peter Brocco
* Director: Harvey Hart
* Writer: [[Barré Lyndon]]
* Producer/Production Co: [[Jack Laird]], Shamley Productions
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuGZnHVqN4w link])

==Ratings==
===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===

* Rated: (not rated) (roughly equivalent to a PG for mild Violence)

===Tentacle Ratings===
A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; could be a very loose adaptation)

A pulp detective story with a few occult elements, peppered liberally with references to general "Yog-Sothothry", apparently at least partly inspired by an entry in Lovecraft's commonplace book: "Man has miniature Siamese twin—exhibit in circus. Twin surgically detached, disappears. Does hideous things with malign life of its own."

''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===

Review Links:
* Mike Davis at Lovecraft eZine, ([https://lovecraftzine.com/2015/06/30/dark-intruder-a-little-known-lovecraftian-1965-movie/ link]) - "...A little gem of a black and white thriller... I was surprised how cleverly elements from different pulp stories were mixed together...."

==Synopsis==

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In this failed TV pilot turned feature film, Police call in an amateur Victorian seventh-son-of-a-seventh-son occult detective and his dwarf manservant and Chinese sorcerer sidekicks to help solve series of sinister murders committed in connection with a San Francisco socialite's monstrous twin.
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==Notes==

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===

* This was actually intended to be the pilot for a TV series, but was deemed "too dark" for 1960s mainstream television; the series was never made, and the pilot was re-purposed into a one-hour feature film.

===Associated Mythos Elements===
* TO DO
* Setting: [[Gaslight]]
* cult: [[The Crimson Cult]] (name-dropped in dialogue)
* deity: [[Azathoth]] (name-dropped in dialogue)
* deity: [[Dagon]] (name-dropped in dialogue)
* deity: the "banished gods" [[Nyogtha]] and [[Garoth]] (name-dropped in dialogue) (Garoth is a creation of [[Robert H. Barlow]], a winged, satanic being)
* deity: [[Utuq]], God of the Night (name-dropped in an invocation)
* deity: [[Broosha]], Ruler of the East (name-dropped in an invocation)
* demons: [[Asmodeus]], [[Azazel]], [[Maskim]] (name-dropped in an invocation)
* demons: [[Shaitan]] and [[Opun]], "Father and Mother of Mindless Chaos" (name-dropped in an invocation)
* location: the Hoggar region of North Africa (mentioned in connection to The Crimson Cult, Azathoth, and Dagon; supposed in the Cthulhu mythos to be a survival of Atlantis)
* tome: ''[[The Cabala of Demonic Possession]]'' by "J. Drail" ([[Jack Laird]])

===Keeper Notes===



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 * deity:  the "banished gods" [[Nyogtha]] and [[Garoth]] (name-dropped in dialogue) (Garoth is a creation of [[Robert H. Barlow]], a winged, satanic being)
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 * View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuGZnHVqN4w link])
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 * deity:  [[Utuq]], God of the Night (name-dropped in an invocation)
 * deity:  [[Broosha]], Ruler of the East (name-dropped in an invocation)
-* demons:  [[Demon#Asmodeus]], [[Demon#Azazel]], [[Demon#Maskim]] (name-dropped in an invocation)
+* demons:  [[Asmodeus]], [[Azazel]], [[Maskim]] (name-dropped in an invocation)
-* demons:  [[Demon#Shaitan]] and [[Demon#Opun]], "Father and Mother of Mindless Chaos" (name-dropped in an invocation)
+* demons:  [[Shaitan]] and [[Opun]], "Father and Mother of Mindless Chaos" (name-dropped in an invocation)
 * location:  the Hoggar region of North Africa (mentioned in connection to The Crimson Cult, Azathoth, and Dagon; supposed in the Cthulhu mythos to be a survival of Atlantis)
 * tome:  ''[[The Cabala of Demonic Possession]]'' by "J. Drail" ([[Jack Laird]])