American Gothic Week: The dreams were meanwhile getting to be atrocious

CURSE OF THE CRIMSON ALTAR

aka The Crimson Cult

1968

Directed by Vernon Sewell

Written by Jerry Sohl, Mervyn Haisman, and Henry Lincoln (based on "The Dreams In the Witch House" by H.P. Lovecraft)

Spoilers: moderate

Spirit Week: The living and the so-called dead

THE DEVIL COMMANDS

1941

Directed by Edward Dmytryk

Written by William Sloane, Robert Hardy Andrew, and Milton Gunzberg (based on the novel The Edge of Running Water by William Sloane)

Spoilers: moderate

Spirit Week: Do you dare to insist that the practice of the occult science is a racket?

YOU'LL FIND OUT

1940

Directed by David Butler

Written by James V. Kern, Monte Brice, Andrew Bennison, R.T.M. Scott, and David Butler

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: Fragments as our universe must needs disown

DIE, MONSTER, DIE!

1965

Directed by Daniel Haller

Written by Jerry Sohl (based on "The Colour Out of Space" by H.P. Lovecraft)

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: That motley drama—oh, be sure it shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased forevermore by a crowd who seize it not

THE COMEDY OF TERRORS

1964

Directed by Jacques Tourneur

Written by Richard Matheson (based on his own imagination! wow!)

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: Poe boys

THE TERROR

1963

Directed by Roger Corman with Francis Ford Coppola, Dennis Jakob, Jack Hill, and Jack Nicholson

Written by nobody till after it was over, and credited to Leo Gordon and Jack Hill

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: Forgotten lore

THE RAVEN

1963

Directed by Roger Corman

Written by Richard Matheson (with several lines taken from the poem by Edgar Allan Poe)

Spoilers: moderate