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)
- IMDB: (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..."
- Scott Ashlin at 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting (2.5/5 Stars) (link) - "All in all, I’d like to give The Shuttered Room a heavily qualified recommendation, but it does so much to defy so many of the wrong expectations (along with a few of the right ones, it’s true) that I’m not at all sure who the viewer most likely to appreciate it would be."
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)"
