Die Die My Darling (1965) (DVD Review)
Directed By: Silvio Narizzano
Starring: Tallulah Bankhead, Stefanie Powers, Peter Vaughan
Rated: UR/Region 0/1:33/Number of Discs 1
Available from Sony Pictures Choice Collection
This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R
An elderly religious fanatic, whose son was killed in an auto wreck several years ago, kidnaps her dead son’s former finacee and keeps her locked up in the basement in order to cleanse the girl’s soul, making it fit to be reunited with her son in heaven. Hammer Studios is behind this old school film that is said to be in the tradition of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Now this Hammer film can be yours with the manufactured on demand division of Sony!
If you’ve seen a Hammer produced film you know what to expect as far as the look and vibe. The movie is guilty of perhaps borrowing a scene here and there from other films, but as a whole I found it to be harmless affair that can be rather entertaining at certain times with great acting here to help pull things together. There are a few interesting characters here and the acting is a sure make-or-break for films like that and here is played well and as a result the film comes across very well. Then again, it IS a Hammer film and they are rarely sloppy. They can at certain times be a bit dull, but this one doesn’t fall into that category much if at all.
I have nothing at all against the Bible, but you can rarely go wrong with a Bible-spewing nut on screen. The people here seem to enjoy what they are doing and that shines through. I would have liked a little more horror and perhaps a little less thriller, but it isn’t like we get a bad movie out of what we do get here. All in all we have a Hammer film that isn’t set way back in those old castle days and it doesn’t turn out bad at all. Actually, compared to other Hammer films it feels rather fresh.
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