Wuchak RELEASED IN 1965 and directed by Daniel Haller, "Die, Monster, Die" (aka "Monster of Terror") is a semi-Gothic horror about a young man (Nick Adams) who travels to the estate of his fiancé (Susan Farmer) in England. Unfortunately, her wheelchair-bound father (Boris Karloff) is curiously curmudgeonly and something strange is going on behind the scenes. The movie is based on HP Lovecraft's story "The Colour Out of Space."While this isn't a vampire flick, the opening is reminiscent of Dracula (young man visits old man's eerie chateau). I used to get this mixed up with "The Terror" (1963), probably because of Karloff, similarities in the plot, and they both came out in the early/mid-60s. Regrettably, "Die, Monster, Die" lacks the haunting fascination of "The Terror." It tries to work up a mysterious ambiance, and succeeds to a degree, but the story's mostly tedious and the characters dull. Susan Farmer is fine, but her part is too secondary and nothing interesting is done with her, like Venetia Stevenson in 1960's "City of the Dead," aka "Horror Hotel" (you know what I mean if you've seen that flick).Thankfully, there are some highlights, like the imaginative scene where the protagonist exclaims "It looks like a zoo in Hell," not to mention the impressive monster at the close.FYI: Two and a half years after the release of this movie in the US, a demoralized Nick Adams was found dead from an overdose, which might have been accidental, but it also could've been suicide.THE MOVIE RUNS 1 hour, 15 minutes and was shot in England (Surrey & Berkshire).GRADE: C

InjunNose ...And since A.) the source material is a story by H.P. Lovecraft, and B.) the film was made in 1965, there's absolutely no way that anyone would expect a faithful adaptation, right? "Die, Monster, Die!" is so ridiculously un-Lovecraftian that it makes Roger Corman's Poe films look like exact replicas of the tales on which they were based, but you can't go wrong if you approach it in the spirit of fun. It's an AIP monster flick, after all, and the presence of Boris Karloff lends it considerably more dignity than it would otherwise have had. Nick Adams and Suzan Farmer are adequate as the obligatory young-couple-in-peril, while Frieda Jackson and Patrick Magee are on hand to bring an extra touch of British class to the proceedings. What remains of Lovecraft's classic story 'The Colour Out of Space' is the meteor and its frightening effects; everything else was concocted by screenwriter Jerry Sohl, but you'll have a good time anyhow (and that's coming from a staunch HPL fan). "Die, Monster, Die!" was Corman set designer Daniel Haller's first film as a director.

Rainey Dawn This movie is known as "Monster of Terror" and "Die, Monster, Die!" It is a sci-fi horror - the mystery happens in the first half of the film. Once the mystery is reveled it becomes a pure sci-fi horror classic. I have to agree with other reviewers that once the mystery is known to the viewer the movie becomes just "ok" - not anything that thrilling.I found the movie "OK". And I would say that only fans of older sci-fi horror and/or Boris Karloff would (maybe) like this movie. And as much as I love Karloff I was not overly fond of the film... Karloff is good as usual but the script, plot, and the rest of it was on the mediocre side.6/10

Andrew Huggett Weird, lurid and slightly bitty horror film about a radioactive meteor kept in a cellar by an old man haunted by his ancestors evil deeds and who believes the effects of the radioactive meteor are a curse upon his family caused by the (devil worship?) carried out there in the past (although none of this is very clear from the narrative structure of the film which tends to lurch awkwardly from one set of inexplicable situations to another). This film (like most of the H. P. Lovecraft film adaptations) does not quite gel together into a cohesive whole for me – although stylistically there's something about it I quite like. The production design and interiors are great (there's a fantastic dry-ice mist covered country house), a village full of characters who won't talk about the house or it's occupants, a couple of weird shroud covered mad women, a greenhouse full of giant animal and vegetable mutations, a killer vine plant, a strange manservant and to cap it all the wonderful melodious tones of a wheelchair-bound Boris Karloff (who moves around the house and grounds with surprising speed) and who when exposed directly to the radioactive meteor turns into a luminous silver skinned zombie with murderous intent. Enjoyable nonsense. Technically, the SD print I saw suffers from some corner lens distortion (caused by the anamorphic techniscope process?) and is slightly soft. If it is ever remastered in HD it would be worth seeing for the colourful sets, matt paintings and location work. The main titles look identical to the ones used on 'Daleks: Invasion of Earth 2150' made a year or so later.