The Shuttered Room (1967 film)
The Shuttered Room, AKA Blood Island (1967 film)
Summary
Based on August Derleth's "collaboration" story "The Shuttered Room (fiction)". Close the doors. Nail the beams. What's inside must never be seen! A series of horrific murders is traced to a creature that inhabits a very strange house.
Details
- Release Date: 1967
- Country/Language: UK, English
- Genres/Technical: Horror
- Runtime: 1 hr 39 min
- Starring: Oliver Reed, Gig Young, Carol Lynley
- Director: David Greene
- Writer: August Derleth
- Producer/Production Co:
- View Trailer: (link)
Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: (unrated) (perhaps equivalent to a PG or PG-13 for Violence and Adult Content?)
Tentacle Ratings
A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
- SS___ (Two Tentacles: barely Lovecraftian)
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:
- Black Hole Reviews, (link) - "Very sixties, not very Lovecrafty, but a little Straw Doggy..."
Synopsis
Based on August Derleth's "collaboration" story "The Shuttered Room (fiction)". Close the doors. Nail the beams. What's inside must never be seen! A series of horrific murders is traced to a creature that inhabits a very strange house.
Notes
Comments, Trivia, Dedication
Associated Mythos Elements
- fiction: "The Shuttered Room (fiction)"
