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Movie Reviews of Die Die My Darling
Movie Review: Camp Classic
Summary: 4 Stars
I remember seeing this movie when I was a small child and it gave me hell's own heebie-jeebies at the time. Watching it now, however, all I could do was laugh at how Tallulah Bankhead slaps Sefanie Powers around. **GO TALLULAH!** Everything is so "stagey" and theatrical, from the acting itself to the sets and lighting--particularly so in the scenes set in the basement of the big, ol' spooky mansion that Mrs. Trefoile (Bankhead) lives in.
'Die! Die! My Darling!' is a MUST SEE for any Bankhead fan.
Movie Review: nasty, vulgar thriller from Hammer Studios
Summary: 3 Stars
DIE! DIE! MY DARLING! (aka "Fanatic") was Hammer Studios' most offbeat thriller. Operating like a bizarre cross between "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and "Carrie", it gave legendary Tallulah Bankhead ("Lifeboat") her final big-screen hurrah; and co-starred Stefanie Powers as the young woman in peril.
Pat Carroll (Stefanie Powers) decides to take an afternoon to visit the mother of her dead one-time fianceé, Mrs Trefoile (Tallulah Bankhead) at her run-down house in the English countryside. What starts out as a pleasant housecall soon dissolves into a nightmarish ordeal as Pat is taken hostage, the aim to "cleanse" Pat's soul in order for her to be reunited in the next world with Trefoile's son. Soul cleansing apparently involves being tied up in an attic for several days, starved, tortured, beaten and preached to by Bible-thumping Trefoile--Mrs Margaret "Carrie" White would be so proud--and her small, scrappy band of helpers (Yootha Joyce, Donald Sutherland and Peter Vaughan).
It's a nasty, gritty thriller; full of sweat and menace and entirely different from other films being made by Hammer during this period, which tended more towards glossy Victorian-era thrillers. Mrs Trefoile is a dream role for any actress with camp sensibilities, and Ms Bankhead delivers appropriately. Stefanie Powers is a worthy adversary, although her strange pseudo-British accent in the initial scenes is quite distracting.
A must for anyone who enjoys Hag Cinema (ie: movies like "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", "The Anniversary", "Trog", "Strait-Jacket").
Movie Review: An out-of-the-way nook in the Hammer catalog worth checking out.
Summary: 3 Stars
Die!, Die!, My Darling! (Silvio Narizzano, 1965)
How can you not like any movie called Die! Die!, My Darling!? Especially when it contains Tallulah Bankhead's final onscreen performance, as a religious wingnut determined to preserve the purity of her dead son by imprisoning his former fiancée, Pat (Stefanie Powers), in her secluded house. Pat, however, is engaged again, and new fiancée Alan (The Abominable Dr. Phibes' Maurice Kaufmann) is sure to notice her disappearance eventually. (Isn't he? You never know, this IS a Hammer horror film, after all.)
Ah, the scenery-chewing! Powers and Bankhead are great foils for one another, with Bankhead lording it over Powers (and the rest of her equally insane household) while Powers tries to find various methods of escaping, getting a note to Alan, or anything else that might help her out of her jam. There are other characters of note-- specifically, rising star Donald Sutherland in one of his early roles for Hammer-- but the movie would be just as fun if it were just Bankhead and Powers in one room. No one will ever confuse this for immortal cinema, but if you happen to catch it on the Saturday afternoon creature feature, you'll find it a pleasant surprise. ***
Movie Review: Not as good as I thought!
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie was a good movie to watch on a dreary weekend. I thought that it would have been better but overall it was ok.Movie Review: Like Made for TV crap
Summary: 1 Stars
This is too awful to be campy. It looks like a 60's TV movie. A horror flick with an Addams Family score with harpsichord and everything. We laughed out loud at several "scary" moments. And the poor prisoner may be a liberated woman but boy is she lame and incompetent. A child coulda escaped from that house in 20 minutes.... but then I guess you wouldn't have a film. Ms Bankhead gives a one note performance.
Don't waste your time. Just watch "...Baby Jane" or "Hush Hush..." again. You'll have a better time.