was this set or meant to be based in dunwich? a small very historic seaside village on the suffolk coast? cos ive heard that dunwich is slowly eroding into the sea and it is quiet an eerie place?
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The Count
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind"
Lovecraft's Dunwich (pronounced "Dun Itch"), as well as arkham, miskatonic university, and most other towns, are supposedly in new england/connecticut; however, H.P. did not use 'real' towns unless he did it obtusely. ("not too far from bangor", or 'near Hastings', for example)
Massachusetts not Connecticut.
shareYeah, Lovecraft stories are always set in New England and the name "Dunwich" has that New England feel, so while I watched this I kept thinking does the New England coast have all those pine trees and wind swept cypresses? It looked like the California coast, and turns out it was! Mendocino according to IMDb. Well, Roger Corman was into cheap, so... west coast, east coast... whatever. When the camera looks out the car window as Donna Baccala is driving to find Sandra Dee the morning after he strands her at his place it looked just like driving on highway one on the northern California coast up around Salt Point State Park north of Jenner. Perhaps it was.
shareIt's similar to "The Shuttered Room," aka "Blood Island" (1967), also based on a book by HP Lovecraft (and August Derleth). The setting is off the coast of New England but it was shot at Kent and Hardingham, England. Although these are excellent locations you can tell it's not a New England isle.
shareThe Lovecraft story was set in the fictitious town of Dunwich, Massachusetts, and took place in the year 1928. The script in this film followed the Lovecraft story very loosely.
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