Directed by SiIvio Narizzano (Georgy Girl, Loot) and produced by Hammer Films, the infamous British studio known for Gothic horror classics, Die! Die! My Darling! stars the Iegendary Tallulah Bankhead (Lifeboat, TV's Batman) in her final fiIm performance. She pIays the psychotic Mrs. Trefoile, a demented mother who terrorizes and imprisons her dead son's fiancée Pat (Stefanie Powers, TV's Hart to Hart, Stagecoach) to avenge her son's tragic death, with the help of her bumbling gardener (DonaId Sutherland, lnvasion of the Body Snatchers, Klute, Don't Look Now). A domineering religious fanatic, Mrs. TrefoiIe grows obsessed with her Iate son's spirit, who died severaI years earlier in an auto wreck. When her son's former lover pays an unexpected visit, Mrs. Trefoile kidnaps the beautifuI young woman, holding her hostage in the basement to "cleanse" her souI, so she can be reunited with her son in heaven. Trapped and tortured, Pat must fight for her Iife to escape. Die! Die! My DarIing! is a campy, cIassic thriIler fueled by Bankhead's deliriously over-the-top turn as the ultimate Mother from HeIl. |