"DwC talks to Richard Stanley. This is big. This is awesome. For those who are unfamiliar, Richard Stanley is the man behind the 1990 steam-punk cult classic, Hardware, the 1992 hallucinatory fever dream, Dust Devil, and 2019’s gloriously psychedelic, Color Out of Space…
While attending the Rhode Island Film Festival, Stanley announced that he was getting back into the director’s chair for an adaption of another beloved H.P. Lovecraft tale, The Dunwich Horror, a delightfully twisted yarn that sees the evil “wizard” Whately make a deal with a malevolent deity, receiving a lifetime of riches in exchange for offering up his own daughter to bear the offspring of this being.
That offspring, Wilbur, is a half-human, half-deity whose purpose is to bring about the destruction of mankind and make way for the return of “the Old Ones.” But Wilbur also had a twin brother, the titular Dunwich Horror. After Wilbur is killed trying to steal the infamous Necronomicon, this twin brother, who much more closely resembles their father, escapes and wreaks havoc upon the unsuspecting populace of Dunwich. It’s a fantastic story.
Fresh from his trip to Rhode Island to scout filming locations and attend the film festival, I was lucky enough to have a brief conversation with Richard about his upcoming film, Dunwich…"
I get that. There’s more to it than I mentioned and I don’t think we’ll ever know the truth because the story petered out when he sued them for slander/libel/whatever in France. He claims the women skipped the country rather than facing that, and that the court told him he has no case to answer to. No news outlets reported on it and there’s really no info that I could find that didn’t link back to his Facebook page. So he could have filed that to slap them down, or he could legitimately be innocent.
I don’t know and I can’t decide for anyone else whether they should watch. I’m on the fence about it currently but I have a few years to ruminate on it before making a decision so I’m in no hurry. Likely I won’t watch it either but it depends on if anything else comes out about it.
Thanks for this, I’ve liked his work since the Fields of the Nephilim videos and this is news to me. I don’t know what to make of it all.
Me either. A lot of people are saying he was cleared but honestly that’s not entirely…uh…clear whether that’s true.
That’s the problem, nothing much happens after the initial and/or the follow-ups get less coverage. This leaves everyone in a kind of limbo that needs to be resolved one way or another, as it costs lives.