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Anyone heard of the movie The Shuttered Room? Anyone know know if it's available on DVD?
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I take it you're referring to the film adaptation of August Derleth's short story with Oliver Reed and Carol Lynley. As far as I know, it's never been released on DVD.
The original tale was Derleth's "expansion" of one of Lovecraft's story fragments and was meant to follow "The Dunwich Horror" (which was one of the tales that inspired the Leviathans). The movie had decent atmosphere and a good performance by Reed, but it proved to be little more than a pale shadow of Derleth's story, which was a pale shadow of the Lovecraft tale that inspired it.
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It's never been released on VHS either, outside of bootlegs and off-air recordings.
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Looks like a bootleg.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=90724&item=190046161214
And it's PAL...
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How sometimes hearing something will trigger memories! I've totally forgotten about that movie until now just reading the title. I saw it once, a long, long time ago, on the old CBS Thursday Night at the Movies. Anyone remember that? We're talking about the nineteen-sixties. It's where I also saw, for the first time, such cinematic treats as The Innocents and The African Queen. All I recall about The Shuttered Room was that it creeped me out, especially the scene where Carol Lynley was trying to hide in a spooky attic or some-such-place and took refuge in an enormous dollhouse. And then, peaking through a dollhouse window at her, was..............
Gerard