Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)
While Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were making Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, and while Olivia de Havilland was making Lady in a Cage, and while Barbara Stanwyck was making The Night Worker, Tallulah Bankhead didn’t want to feel left out. She came out of a twenty year retirement to make the horror flick Die! Die! My Darling! to round out the collection of silver screen actresses who made ridiculous movies when they got older. This one’s a bit different than the others, though. Instead of being a victim who constantly screams her head off when she’s in danger, Tallulah is the crazy one who torments someone else! She plays a devoutly religious woman grieving for her husband and son, who takes the idea of virtue and sin a bit too seriously.
Stephanie Powers was her son’s fiancé, and she comes to visit out of the goodness of her heart. She has no idea that Tallulah will disapprove of her clothes, makeup, and lifestyle so much she’ll end up taking her hostage with the goal of cleansing her soul! It’s all one giant camp-fest, and I guarantee you’ll be laughing more than you’ll be scared. It’s a classic ’60s bad horror movie with cheesy music, fake looking red ketchup, and lots of overacting. I can only imagine how much fun Tallulah had making this movie, shouting and acting repulsed by everything. In real life, she loved to throw caution to the wind, wallowing in frivolity, and delighting in sin. How fun it must have been to order Stephanie to wipe her lipstick off, or to insist that premarital sex is unacceptable!
Fans of Tallu beware: she doesn’t look anything like the glamorous star from thirty years ago. She wears her hair in a tight gray bun and doesn’t have a stitch of makeup on. Unless you’re fully prepared to see her looking like a hag, stick with her earlier movies.
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Stephanie Powers was her son’s fiancé, and she comes to visit out of the goodness of her heart. She has no idea that Tallulah will disapprove of her clothes, makeup, and lifestyle so much she’ll end up taking her hostage with the goal of cleansing her soul! It’s all one giant camp-fest, and I guarantee you’ll be laughing more than you’ll be scared. It’s a classic ’60s bad horror movie with cheesy music, fake looking red ketchup, and lots of overacting. I can only imagine how much fun Tallulah had making this movie, shouting and acting repulsed by everything. In real life, she loved to throw caution to the wind, wallowing in frivolity, and delighting in sin. How fun it must have been to order Stephanie to wipe her lipstick off, or to insist that premarital sex is unacceptable!
Fans of Tallu beware: she doesn’t look anything like the glamorous star from thirty years ago. She wears her hair in a tight gray bun and doesn’t have a stitch of makeup on. Unless you’re fully prepared to see her looking like a hag, stick with her earlier movies.
Want to watch it? Click here to watch it on ok.ru. And thanks "Classic Movies Kristine Rose" for posting!
More Tallulah Bankhead movies here!