Presented by the H.P Lovecraft Historical Socierty. I've never read anything by Lovecraft and have just a vague impression of his work, but this movie was praised for being true to its source material. In black & white, set in the '30's.
Albert Wilmarth (Matt Foyer), a professor of folklore studies, travels to the backwoods of Vermont to meet a farmer who's convinced that his place is being visited in the night by intelligent crab-like creatures.
In one scene, we see the difficulty serious academics can have debating crackpots. Wilmarth appears on radio debating Charles Fort (Andrew Leman) and doesn't do well.
The movie looked beautiful and captured how disturbing the country can be to city people, out there with no police, ambulance service or witnesses.
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