IT! (1966 Film)

It! (1966 Film)

It! (aka Anger of the Golem, Curse of the Golem) is a 1966 horror film made by Seven Arts Productions and Gold Star Productions, Ltd. that features the Golem of Prague as its main subject. The film was made in the style of the Hammer Studios films both in sound and cinematography. It! stars Roddy McDowall as the mad assistant museum curator Arthur Pimm, who evokes (brings to life) the golem by finding a hidden scroll in a hollowed out compartment of the golem's right foot and placing it under its tongue. Alan Sellers plays the golem, Jill Haworth plays Ellen Grove, and Paul Maxwell plays Jim Perkins. Herbert J. Leder is a producer, the screenwriter, and director of this film. Leder also produced, wrote, and directed Nine Miles to the Moon (1963), The Frozen Dead (1966), and The Candy Man (1969). He was the screenwriter for Fiend without a Face (1958), and Pretty Boy Floyd (1960).

Since Seven Arts Productions acquired Warner Brothers Communications Company in 1967 the film was released by Warner Brothers—Seven Arts in the United States. The film was widely released in the US in 1967 on a double bill with The Frozen Dead.

It! was never released on home video until December 9, 2008 when Warner Home Video released it with The Shuttered Room in its new series of "Horror Double Feature" DVDs.