sandra dee and out of all people and portray the endanger protagonist and a college student seduce by the hypnotic ( . key word ) charm of warlock dean stockwell who wish to to open the gateway for unleash the old one from another dimension and need the necronomicon and in possession of professor ed begley who tour campus lecture on the book content and origin . he wish to use dee a a sacrifice to the demon god on the cliff side ruin of an ancient alter . sam jaffe ham it up a the loony grandfather of stockwell and lloyd bochner be the village doctor begley confides in to stop stockwell from what he plan to do regard the god which await re entry into our world and to dee and sexually . i find the film and at time quite atmospheric and moody ( . mainly the first 45 minute ) and but the end be sh . t. love the score by le baxter and although it seem and at time and to resemble the background music of a scooby doo episode . my favorite shot have a camera look out from a burial plot after the death of a specific character a stockwell attempt to perform a ritualistic ceremony . the film night sequence at the end a a band of angry villager and follow behind begley and bochner and be attack by a creature ( that loose itself from a locked room in jaffe and stockwell home ) and within the wood drive me nut . you can not see a damn thing unless the director let loose those color scheme which operate loudly a the monster sight when it confront possible victim . and and the face off between begley and stockwell a gidget lay on the sacrificial alter in orgiastic ( . under an induced hypnotic state and although one might use that a a description of dee performance ) bliss be laughable . i love the opening animate credit sequence . consider this be an aip production and i be disappoint . at time moody and interesting and other time painstakingly dull .