Re-Animator , from director Stuart Gordon, and In the Mouth of Madness , from John Carpenter, are among the most well-known and beloved Lovecraft adaptations, but their history stretches back even farther, to The Haunted Palace , a Roger Corman film with Vincent Price that’s a loose adaptation of the novella The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and The Dunwich Horror , a 1970s schlock-fest starring Dean Stockwell, to name two.