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I haven't seen Dark Intruder.
I had never even heard of it until I saw it in that DVD-combo with The Night Walker.I haven't seen Dark Intruder.
Is the horror haggy?I had never even heard of it until I saw it in that DVD-combo with The Night Walker.
Dark Intruder was a 1965 film made to show on TV, but ended up being shown in theaters. It stars Leslie Nielsen and runs barely an hour. I've never seen it, nor did I have any desire to, but considering it's the one included in the combo, I'll give it a look anyway.
Apparently not. That confuses me a little, too. I was hoping that it was going to be another psycho-biddy thriller to add to the rest of them. I guess the company releasing this set does not label The Night Walker under the hag horror slot, so I guess they were just looking for another low-budget shocker to make this a combo.Is the horror haggy?
I have a birthday coming up in October, and I had a wonderful idea. I've gotten my fiancee and her family to buy me the remaining Hagsploitation movies that I'm lacking. I'm aiming to have a binge-a-thon of them around the time of my birthday with a large screen plastered out in the front yard, accompanied with a projector, to give us an spooky old-drive-in-type vibe. I'm very excited about it. As I get these movies, I'll watch them and pop back in here to give you all my two cents.
I can't wait.
Here's some of the titles I'm hopefully going to get:
The Night Walker
Dark Intruder
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
The Nanny
Strait-Jacket
Berserk!
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
The Caretakers
Night Watch
Lady in a Cage
Die! Die! My Darling!
Maniac
Dead Ringer
There's always a book, entitled Grande Dame Guignol Cinema, authored by Peter Shelley, that I'd really like to get my hands on as well. It would be a wonderful little addition to my shrine of psycho-biddy sub-genre.
That would definitely be interesting to go back and watch---their reactions.Strait-Jacket
You should record their reactions with your cell phone when that one is being watched...
I haven't seen that one, either. Off to YT!Maniac
FYI: MANIAC is not, technically, hag horror (and its twist ending doesn't really work).I haven't seen that one, either. Off to YT!
Is it something special?Strait-Jacket
You should record their reactions with your cell phone when that one is being watched
Oh yeah. See definition #4 of the word "special" in the Collins Dictionary...Is it something special?
I haven't seen it. In assuming you watched it on YouTube, I'll hop on over there and see what it's all about.FYI: MANIAC is not, technically, hag horror (and its twist ending doesn't really work).
Unlikely. Bette gave up her top billing to have it re-named HUSH... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE, thank goodness.Although my thoughts on Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte is a little fuzzy, I must say that I cannot shake the notion that I wish that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford had gotten their acts together and the title would have stayed What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte?
Bette gave up?Unlikely. Bette gave up her top billing to have it re-named HUSH... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE, thank goodness.
As I've stated before, it might be interesting to see an able-bodied Crawford silently wandering the moors and halls of that Louisiana plantation at night in her giant choker necklaces and period beehive hairdo, but it would have given her malevolence away too early, as well as making this already terribly dark, grand guignol picture even darker in a back-of-a-dark-closet sort of way. But Olivia de Havilland brought a breezy contrast to the role which worked.
Like @Crimson, I, too, think it's the best of the hag horror genre (despite the bizarre error in hair and wardrobe for the "1927" prologue where the styles are clearly 1964 -- a mistake that BABY JANE did not make, although a lot of '60s films did).
I've actually had this framed photo in my dining room for years:
Bette balked at Joan getting top billing, but agreed not to fight it to get the title changed.Bette gave up?
I was under the impression that Joan had secured an alphabetical billing agreement in her contract, which naturally put Crawford before Davis. Of course, this was said to have infuriated Bette (who always thought of herself as the better actress than Joan, and indeed she was), and that's why the production team tried to sweeten Bette's deal; she got the title change, an executive credit, and naturally a larger salary.
So you have this exact picture in your kitchen? It think that's neat.
What is the title? Is it on YouTube?But instead I'm going to see this:
I think the reference is to WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?.What is the title? Is it on YouTube?
Like @Crimson, I, too, think it's the best of the hag horror genre
Great concept, great star, crap execution