although this film have hint of the chillingly mysterious horror that be convey in lovecraft story and in be incredibly boring and awkward and stilted . the best performance in the film be turn in by sandra dee and which may give you a clue about the low quality of the act by such generally competent performer a ed begley and sam jaffe . dean stockwell phone in what must be the bad job of his career . the dialog be at time incoherent . the special effect abysmal . the editing and non existent . i lay the blame for most fault squarely on the shoulder of the director and a former designer and art director on some classic horror film who seem to be well out of his area of competence here . the film clearly must have have a lowest of the low budget as well . ala and we have yet to see a really good treatment of any lovecraftian tale on film .