Die, Monster, Die is loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space but you would be hard pressed to tell. Nick Adams plays a guy who shows up in the town of Arkham looking for the Whitley place. All the townsfolk shun him and make him walk the miles it is to the Whitley estate. There he finds a huge pit surrounded by dead trees. In the mansion itself, Boris Karloff (confined to a wheel chair) welcomes him by telling him to GTFO. Adams is there to see Karloff's daughter, Susan, and maybe take her away from all this. Karloff's wife is bedridden and refuses to be exposed to light. Their butler is a weirdo who keeps falling over. In the midst of all this is a mystery and some slight danger.
This was not a very good movie. Karloff is all about his father going insane and worshiping beings from beyond the galaxy but that has very little to do with the actual plot. Almost like the giant frog in The Maze, I hate to give away what's going on but if it saves you from seeing the movie, maybe it's a service. You see, a meteor crashed on the Whitley estate and now it is making plants, animals and people mutate. The mutated people are really just dying. But before they die, they go on kill crazy rampages for some reason. There is a maid named Helga who keeps popping up at weird times to attack people, we never really see what happens to her. Karloff and his wife go crazy. It all feels like a cheap 50s throwback even though it was made in the 60s. Karloff deserved better than this.
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