Mill Creek Through the Decades: 1960s Collection: The Notorious Landlady (1962)
What a pedigree this movie has: It’s written by Blake Edwards (the director of Operation Petticoat, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Days of Wine and Roses, the Pink Panther movies, 10, Victor/Victoria, Micki & Maude, Blind Date) and Larry Gelbart (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Tootsie and the creator of the M*A*S*H* TV show), and was directed by Richard Quine, who […]
Mill Creek Through the Decades: 1960s Collection: How to Ruin a Marriage and Save Your Life (1968)
David Sloane (Dean Martin) is an confirmed bachelor. However, he’s worried about the marriage of his friend Harry Hunter (Eli Wallach), who is having an affair. So David decides to steal away his friend’s mistress, thinking that it’s his employee Carol (Stella Stevens, in a part originally intended for Marilyn Monroe; by doing this movie, […]
Mill Creek Through the Decades: 1960s Collection: Who Was That Lady? (1960)
Ann Wilson (Janet Leigh) has caught her chemistry professor husband David Wilson (Tony Curtis) kissing one of his transfer students. He thinks it was innocent, she wants a divorce. So instead of working through their issues, David gets his friend Michael Haney (Dean Martin) to come up with a story to get out of it. […]
CURTIS HARRINGTON WEEK: Fragment of Seeking (1946)
“A climactic fragment from the existence of an adolescent Narcissus” and an “examination of youthful narcissism” are words that director Curtis Harrington used to describe this early sixteen-minute long movie. A man catches a glimpse of a woman, becomes obsessed by her and then alternatively horrified by her when he sees her in a much […]
CURTIS HARRINGTON WEEK: The Dead Don’t Die (1975)
Man, Robert Bloch didn’t like this adaption, saying: “The Dead Don’t Die. Maybe they don’t, but the show did. Despite Curtis’s casting of accomplished character actors, their supporting roles couldn’t prop up the lead. And Ray Milland, who had given such a deftly paced performance in my script for Home Away from Home, merely plodded […]
CURTIS HARRINGTON WEEK: The Wormwood Star (1956)
The artwork in this film was destroyed in a ritual. This is the only record that they were ever here. Harrington said this of the film’s subject, Marjorie Cameron: “Before I made the film I’d heard from Renate that Cameron had spent some time in the desert trying, through magical means, to conceive a child […]
CURTIS HARRINGTON WEEK: Ruby (1977)
EDITOR’S NOTE: As we explore the movies of Curtis Harrington, let’s discuss perhaps one of his better known films. This was originally on the site on February 1, 2020. Curtis Harrington had the thread of magic running through all of his films. One of the leaders of New Queer Cinema, he also directed Queen of Blood, […]
SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE: The Runner (2022)
I’ve never heard of the band Boy Harsher — the darkwave/new industrial duo of vocalist/lyricist Jae Matthews and producer Augustus Muller — but their music is the inspiration for this 40-minute film, which goes along with their new concept album, The Runner, set for release on January 21 (preorder here or order from their Big Cartel […]
CURTIS HARRINGTON WEEK: Night Tide (1961)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Originally running on our site on April 4, 2019, this is a movie that has obsessed me in the same way Marjorie Cameron, the occult, Crowley and Jack Parsons have for many years. Remember the words of Ms. Cameron, who said, “I shall plunge down into the abysmal horror of madness and death—or […]
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