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Originally Posted by Bikewer  Vincent Price did a number of Lovecraft stories, which were always oddly re-titled by the production company.
The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward for one, and another that was based on The Color Out Of Space.
I seem to remember two others based on the Mythos, which I recall had inverted titles.... |
Actually, the only one with Price in it that I'm aware of is titled (with true Hollywood logic)
Edgar Allan Poe's The Haunted Palace (or simply
The Haunted Palace); it was put out as part of the Poe series that Roger Corman did, written by Charles Beaumont (who was
not a fan of HPL and disliked the whole idea), and yes, it was based on
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. There was a Night Gallery Episode with Price that was tangentially Mythos, though it was adapted from Clark Ashton Smith's story "The Return of the Sorcerer".
There have been different film versions of "The Colour out of Space", but the one you're most likely thinking of didn't have Price, but Boris Karloff, and was titled
Monster of Terror (UK) or
Die, Monster, Die! (US). It, too, was an offshoot of the Corman films, along with an adaptation of "The Dunwich Horror". Both have their moments, but aren't particularly good films -- in fact, I'd say they're among the worst Lovecraft adaptations out there (with the exception of another version of "Colour" -- The Curse [1987], a truly gadawful film).
The Curse (1987) The Haunted Palace (1963) Die, Monster, Die! (1965) The Dunwich Horror (1970)
Incidentally, here's a listing of those films taken from HPL's work (or at least where he's listed as writer of the original material) as given by IMDB:
H.P. Lovecraft