Saturday 7 March 2020

DIE, DIE MY DARLING nil

Had this been better, (or worse, depending on your point of view), it might have been a camp classic particularly with Tallulah Bankhead going further over the top than any of her contemporaries as the barking mad matriarch holding her dead son's girlfriend, (a very dumb Stefanie Powers), captive. "Die, Die My Darling" or "Fanatic", depending on which side of the Atlantic you're on, is dafter than most and is totally lacking in suspense but Bankhead, sans make-up, seems to enjoy torturing Miss Powers who deserves all she gets for being so stupid in the first place. It's certainly fun seeing Tallulah playing a religious nut though I kept wondering why she agreed to make this tripe since she was never a 'movie' name to begin with. Presumably she needed the money. Watch out, too, for Donald Sutherland playing a kind of village idiot. No doubt he's crossed it off his CV.

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