How Awful About Allan
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Actor: Anthony Perkins, Joan HackettDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Legacy Entertainment
Movie Reviews of How Awful About Allan
Movie Review: Gets 4 stars because of players, director, and relative obscurity.
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this film once on ABC over 30 years ago, before VCRs or DVDs were available... and I've wanted another viewing ever since. It holds up quite well with the other Curtis Harrington and Robert Aldrich CHARACTER/QUESTION horror films that featured a characters name, and often a question, in the title, specifically, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?; HUSH,HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE; WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HELEN?; WHOEVER SLEW AUNTIE ROO?; and my favorite, WHAT HAPPENED TO AUNT ALICE?. Many of these were based on novels by Henry Farrell. This one holds up pretty well because of Anthony Perkins, Julie Harris, Joan Hackett and Kent Smith... 4 very recognizable and talented performers. Smith's career goes all the way back to the Lewton/Wise CAT PEOPLE pictures; Joan Hackett cut a wide swath through Sixties and Seventies movies before cancer cut her down; and Harris and Perkins are well remembered for many great films, although PSYCHO forever trapped Perkins as an emotionally impaired victim/predator. The budget is strictly "movie of the week," and the plot here is so thin that the few red herrings are VERY transparent and the villain is VERY easily spotted. The main attractions are the performances and the persistant sense of dread that characterizes all Curtis Harrington movies. If you want to see good performers in one that slipped past you the first time, this one is a fairly good bet.
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