Dark Heritage

Dark Heritage (UK: Dark Heritage: The Final Descendant) is a 1989 American horror film adapted from H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Lurking Fear".

Plot

Following a violent storm, a small campsite in the Southern states is found littered with mutilated bodies. Journalist Clint Harrison investigates and learns of a family called the Dansens who kept a terrible secret. Resolving to get to the bottom of things, Harrison and his buddies decide to spend the night in the abandoned Dansen home with the result that there are more deaths, and Harrison finds out a terrible truth: he is related to the Dansens.

Location

The main house in it is the Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation, Geismer, Louisiana, USA.

External links

Dark Heritage at the Internet Movie Database

http://iscfc.net/2013/12/22/dark-heritage-1989/ - ISCFC review by Mark Longden

Media based on H. P. Lovecraft works

Films	The Haunted Palace (1963) Die, Monster, Die! (1965) The Shuttered Room (1967) The Dunwich Horror (1970) Re-Animator (1985) From Beyond (1986) The Curse (1987) The Unnamable (1988) Dark Heritage (1989) Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) The Resurrected (1992) The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1993) In the Mouth of Madness (1994) Necronomicon (1994) The Lurking Fear (1994) Witch Hunt (1994) Bleeders (1997) Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (1998) Cool Air (1999) Cthulhu (2000) Dagon (2001) Alone in the Dark (2005) The Call of Cthulhu (2005) H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House (2005) Cthulhu (2007) The Tomb (2007) Chill (2007) The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)

RPGs, table-top and card games	Call of Cthulhu RPG (1981) Arkham Horror (1987, 2005) Mythos (1996) Cthulhu Live (1997) Delta Green (1997) Call of Cthulhu Collectible Card Game (2004) Cthulhu 500 (2004) Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game (2008) Trail of Cthulhu (2008) CthulhuTech (2008) Elder Sign (2011) Mansions of Madness (2011) Eldritch Horror (2013)

Video games	Alone in the Dark (1992) Shadow of the Comet (1993) Necronomicon (1994) Alone in the Dark 3 (1995) Prisoner of Ice (1995) Innsmouth no Yakata (1995) Digital Pinball: Necronomicon (1996) Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness (2001) Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005) Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2006) Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land (2012) Darkest Dungeon (2015) Bloodborne (2015)

Other	Neil Gaiman's Only the End of the World Again (2000) Alan Moore's The Courtyard (2003) Unspeakable Vault (of Doom) (2003–present) Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths (2003) Dark Adventure Radio Theatre (2006–2013) Demonbane (2006) Haiyore! Nyaruko-san (2009–2014) Neonomicon (2010) Re-Animator: The Musical (2011)

See also: Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture