Tallulah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers in Die! Die! My Darling! (Fanatic, 1965)
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Out of the gutter and into your arms, the FREE monthly Lobotomy Room cinema club (devoted to Bad Movies for Bad People) returns on Thursday 16 May 2024! And boy, do we have a shocker for you this time – 1965 hagsploitation thriller Die! Die! My Darling!
Chic, cosmopolitan and modern, American Patricia Carroll (Stefanie Powers) is living her best life. Upon arriving in London to marry her suave Brit fiancé Alan (Maurice Kaufmann), Carroll seeks closure by visiting Mrs. Trefoile, the grieving mother of her former boyfriend Stephen who died under tragic circumstances years earlier. Big mistake! Mrs. Trefoile turns out to be a terrifying religious fundamentalist and vengeful psychopath who most definitely does not have Patricia’s best interests at heart. To be fair, Patricia should have suspected Mrs. Trefoile was evil. She resides in a Gothic lair populated by freaky menacing servants (including a young Donald Sutherland and Yootha Joyce!). When we’re first introduced to her, Mrs. Trefoile is sitting in the kind of wicker peacock chair favoured by Morticia Addams. And when dinner is served, it’s vegetarian! (“We do not use condiments of any kind in this house, Patricia! God's food should be eaten unadorned!” she adds). Adding to the fun considerably, the bible-bashing Mrs. Trefoil is portrayed by the fabulous cast-against-type debauched hellraising wild woman of the American stage and campy gay icon, Miss Tallulah Bankhead, in her final film role. (She died in 1968).
In truth, Die! Die! My Darling! is arguably rarely “scary”, but with its sadistic emphasis on Patricia’s torment, it packs a nasty jolt. As the AllMovie website concludes, “Die! Die!'s thrills may be cheap, but they're thrills nonetheless.” And if you’re a fan of hagsploitation horror like What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Strait-jacket and Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte, this one is a must! So, join us to watch Die! Die! My Darling! over cocktails at Fontaine’s bar in Dalston on 16 May! Details.
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I'll be seeing you in hell
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Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)
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Y'all pan dom gonna be mad cause I got this shirt 😭🤣
I'm showing this since I'm a selfie bitch and know I'll be caught in this. I'm seeing this shirt as a dark au where hook actually successfully killed the Darling Kids 🖤💀
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8:39 PM EDT May 26, 2023:
Metallica - "Die Die My Darling"
From the album Garage Inc.
(November 23, 1998)
Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm
File under: Garage Up Your Ass
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