Dark Intruder - Connection To The Cthulhu Mythos

Connection To The Cthulhu Mythos

The dialogue includes some references to alien beings invented by horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, tying the film to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. In an early scene where Brett Kingsford meets with the police commissioner, opines that "gods older than the human race...deities like Dagon and Azathoth still have worshippers." Additionally, towards the end of the film where Malachi takes over the body of Vanderburgh, he invokes the names of several deities, some traditional such as the Goetic demons Asmodeus and the Astaroth but also Nyogtha, a god invented for the Cthulhu Mythos Henry Kuttner deities by Lovecraft's colleague Henry Kuttner.

These references were no doubt introduced by producer Jack Laird who later introduced similar Lovecraftian references and epsisodes to the television series Rod Serling's Night Gallery, such as these episodes he scripted - "Pickman's Model" (based directly on the Lovecraft story of the same title) and "Professor Peabody's Last Lecture".