tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post4834265232446238894..comments2024-03-28T20:46:33.836-04:00Comments on Final Girl: VHS Week Day 10: DIE! DIE! MY DARLING! (1965)Stacie Ponderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07784074536271206501noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-49953775811823222472016-05-21T20:48:36.084-04:002016-05-21T20:48:36.084-04:00I'm getting this in a Mill Creek Hammer Collec...I'm getting this in a Mill Creek Hammer Collection before too long!<br />Viking71https://www.blogger.com/profile/12484853123615788713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-10623673871504507032016-05-18T04:26:54.329-04:002016-05-18T04:26:54.329-04:00They certainly don't make them like these any ...They certainly don't make them like these any more. The closest I can think of these days is something like "The Butterfly Room" with Barbara Steele.Eliot Bladeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00094039963929376173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-56506460699220253892016-05-17T21:56:33.672-04:002016-05-17T21:56:33.672-04:00Thanks so much! And you're so right about the ...Thanks so much! And you're so right about the atmosphere...it ends up feeling very <i>Hammer gothic</i> in a contemporary setting. And as you said, it's not without some genuine chills–that body under the running tap! Terrifically fun movie that's unfairly overshadowed by a few others in the genre.Stacie Ponderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07784074536271206501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-171424541524939582016-05-17T21:33:32.536-04:002016-05-17T21:33:32.536-04:00I've been waiting for this review ever since I...I've been waiting for this review ever since I saw the first VHS week post! I LOVE this movie, for all the reasons you mentioned; it's so completely over-the-top and wonderful, and Tallulah Bankhead is phenomenal in it.<br /><br />There's also one thing in it that cut through the camp enough for me to find it a genuinely chilling moment, and one that's stuck with me in the years since I first watched it: the empty bookshelves. Something about that wall of bookshelves bereft of everything but a Bible and maybe half a dozen other religious tomes is so telling about the atmosphere of that house and that family, and such a genuinely upsetting comment on the type of hyper-religiosity that I unfortunately have all too much familiarity with, that I almost feel like it belongs in a "better" movie.<br /><br />But screw better movies - Die! Die! My Darling is exactly as good as it needs to be and I love it to pieces. Thanks for reviewing it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905168602802654917noreply@blogger.com