'The Shuttered Room’ (1967) - David Greene.

Steeped in ancient sin, and oozing eldritch portent, the UK-shot, doomily Gothic, deliciously doom-laden shocker, 'The Shuttered Room’ (1967) is arguably one of the finer Lovecraft/Derleth film adaptations. The luminously pretty, honey-blonde bride, Susanna Kelton (Carol Lynley) anxiously returns home to her magnificently desolate ancestral abode with handsome, square-jawed hubby, Mike (Gig Young) only to grimly discover a devastating family secret! 

 

Sadly, there's little hope of an emotional exorcism, since Susanna's fateful return merely expedites this increasingly monstrous familial malaise! As in all productions graced with, Ollie Reed's beneficently barrel-chested presence, the inimitable, one man acting army captivatingly chews his way through the cob-webby scenery as if they had been generously soaked in Smirnoff beforehand! The always delightful, Flora Robson is particularly effective as the creepy, domineering patriarch whose malevolent duplicity refuses to be contained any longer! Fans of Tigon, Amicus and the mighty Hammer Films are sure to glean a fitful frisson of illicit pleasure from the greatly neglected, criminally unavailable, luridly Lovecraftian, mystery laden 60s skin-crawler, ‘The Shuttered Room’.