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Actor Jeffrey Combs (who earned an eternal place in horror history with his performance as as Herbert West in H. P. Lovecraft’s REANIMATOR) tells Fangoria that he has a “strong supporting role” in a remake of Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror,” but he will not be appearing THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP, the Lovecraft inspired film from Stuart Gordon, who directed him in REANIMATOR.

“I did a remake of THE DUNWICH HORROR called THE DARKEST EVIL down in Louisiana, directed by Leigh Scott,” he tells Fango. “That was sort of a neat thing, because it co-stars Dean Stockwell, back from the original, so I got to know him a little bit. He’s not playing the same role that he did way back when, though.”

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And in fact, he reveals, you won’t be seeing him in Gordon’s next planned HPL feature, THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP: “You know, Stuart approached me about that a while ago and wanted me to read it, and quite honestly, I opted out. It has a lot of sex.” Must be an awful lot, to outdo the carnal hijinx seen in the duo’s previous RE-ANIMATOR and FROM BEYOND… “It’s kind of wall-to-wall,” Combs explains, “because the whole idea is that people get infected by having sex, and so everybody is doing it. And I just said, ‘Stuart, no, thank you,’ because I know how it breaks down and how it is on set, and I didn’t really want to be in that world.”