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Die! Die! My Darling!
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767882576
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767882571
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0English (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: 07862
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: August 12, 2003
Running Time: 97 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1965
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Editorial Review:
In the tradition of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Hammer Studios drew aging Tallulah Bankhead out of retirement to play the fanatical matriarch of Die! Die! My Darling! (in Britain the film was simply titled Fanatic). Stefanie Powers, fresh from a string of juvenile and ingenue roles, plays her first adult, a thoroughly modern (and sexually liberated) woman who steps out of her time and into Bankhead's decaying mansion, a bit of southern Gothic nestled in the rural England countryside. Her courtesy call to the mother of her deceased lover turns into a cat-and-mouse thriller as the dotty, scripture-reading old lady dedicates herself to "cleansing" the befouled girl in memory of her son. Richard Matheson's smart screenplay (from the novel Nightmare by Anne Blaisdell) gives Powers a scrappy character, defying Bankhead and struggling to escape at every turn, while Bankhead's increasingly deranged campaign is given a delicious dimension with a marvelously schizophrenic backstory. Director Silvio Narizzano tends to overplay his hand at times and at one point steals a scene right out of Psycho, but he happily makes the battle of wits the central focus, letting the gothic elements stand as flourish. Peter Vaughan costars as a sleazy, salacious caretaker who can't keep his paws of their captive and Donald Sutherland has a small role as an idiot odd-job man devoted to his bizarre little family. --Sean Axmaker
Directed by Silvio Narizzano (Georgy Girl Loot) and produced by Hammer Films the infamous British studio known for Gothic horror classics DIE! DIE! MY DARLING! stars the legendary Tallulah Bankhead (Lifeboat TV's "Batman") in her final film performance. She plays the psychotic Mrs. Trefoile a demented mother who terrorizes and imprisons her dead son's fianc e Pat (Stefanie Powers TV's "Hart to Hart" Stagecoach) to avenge her son's tragic death with the help of her bumbling gardener (Donald Sutherland Invasion of the Body Snatchers Klute Don't Look Now). A domineering religious fanatic Mrs. Trefoile grows obsessed with her late son's spirit who died several years earlier in an auto wreck. When her son's former lover pays an unexpected visit Mrs. Trefoile kidnaps the beautiful young woman holding her hostage in the basement to "cleanse" her soul so she can be reunited with her son in heaven. Trapped and tortured Pat must fight for her life to escape. DIE! DIE! MY DARLING! is a campy classic thriller fueled by Bankhead's deliriously over-the-top turn as the ultimate Mother from Hell.System Requirements:Running Time 97 MinsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: NR UPC: 043396078628 Manufacturer No: 07862
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Suddenly Last Summer with a different title
I hope Tennessee Williams got a percentage when they released this Hammer horror film, because it's pretty much the exact same story as SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, just changed a little to accommodate the limited acting range of my favorite, Stefanie Powers.
You'll remember SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER in which Elizabeth Taylor is clapped in a mental hospital awaiting a lobotomy, under the dire eye of Violet Venables (Katharine Hepburn). Taylor is a mess, but mostly she's in shock from the trauma ... Read More
Rating: - over the top dialogue, a lunatic mother who will never let go, and LIES ! LIES ! LIES !!!
Die! Die! My Darling is a well done albeit somewhat campy film from the mid 1960s that looks a bit tamer today than it probably did when it was first released. Nevertheless, we get stunning performances from the great Tallulah Bankhead, Stefanie Powers and Peter Vaughan; and the suspense builds up very well.
The action starts when Pat Carroll (Stefanie Powers) arrives in England to meet her fiancé, Alan Glentower (Maurice Kaufmann). Pat insists that she must have a final meeting with ... Read More
Rating:  - An out-of-the-way nook in the Hammer catalog worth checking out.
Die!, Die!, My Darling! (Silvio Narizzano, 1965)
How can you not like any movie called Die! Die!, My Darling!? Especially when it contains Tallulah Bankhead's final onscreen performance, as a religious wingnut determined to preserve the purity of her dead son by imprisoning his former fiancée, Pat (Stefanie Powers), in her secluded house. Pat, however, is engaged again, and new fiancée Alan (The Abominable Dr. Phibes' Maurice Kaufmann) is sure to notice her disappearance eventually. ... Read More
Rating:  - Legendary Talullah Bankhead Chewing The Scenery In Her Final Film Performance
I admit to being one of those movie fans who totally enjoys the efforts from the "twilight years" of the careers of the great actresses of the 1930's and '40's. Call them camp or the last gasps of talent often stretching back 40 years these women always gave their all in these lesser efforts which nowadays are often among the best remembered film roles from their long and distinguished careers. Starting off with veterans Bette Davis and Joan Crawford verbally and physically destroying each other in ... Read More
Rating: - Not as good as I thought!
This movie was a good movie to watch on a dreary weekend. I thought that it would have been better but overall it was ok.
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