#die die my darling

[fanofspooky]

Rest In Peace Donald Sutherland

Thank you for your phenomenal movies

[punkrockhistory]

40 years ago

"Die, Die My Darling" is a song by the American horror punk band Misfits released in May 1984, seven months after the band's breakup

[weirdlookindog]

Tallulah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers in Die! Die! My Darling! (Fanatic, 1965)

[bitter69uk]

“He made his film debut in Freddie Francis's fondly remembered trash-horror flick Dr Terror's House of Horrors and in his fellow Canadian Silvio Narizzano's Die! Die! My Darling! alongside Tallulah Bankhead, whose last movie it was, and who made a lasting impression on Sutherland. "I loved her. She was wonderful. But poor Yootha Joyce [her co-star] couldn't run fast enough. Tallulah had this wild crush on her. I'd just left the theatre at this time and once I was downstairs putting on make-up. My character was supposed to be an albino and I didn't think he was white enough, so I was down in the basement, putting layers on. And I heard a noise behind me. I turned around and Tallulah was standing there naked, with dugs hanging down like that and this HUGE thatch of blond pubic hair and she looked at me and said, "What's the matter, darling? Never seen a blonde before?" I couldn't speak. And she ran out of there laughing madly, her bum swinging back and forth."

Donald Sutherland reminiscing about his experience working with the debauched 62-year-old wild woman Tallulah Bankhead in the 1965 hagsploitation movie Die! Die! My Darling! in The Guardian in 2005. Sutherland would go on, of course, to become one of the preeminent actors of “New Hollywood” cinema in the 1970s, starring in the likes of M*A*S*H*, Klute, Don’t Look Now, Day of the Locust and Fellini’s Casanova. Character actress Yootha Joyce, meanwhile, would go onto star in classic British 1970s sitcom George and Mildred! Reading Sutherland’s reflections on Bankhead’s antics, you can appreciate why the director concluded, “No words can express my relief that the picture is over. She is magnificent but impossible.” See Bankhead, Sutherland and Joyce onscreen when the FREE monthly Lobotomy Room cinema club presents Die! Die! on Thursday 16 May at Fontaine’s bar in Dalston. I have no idea about seat availability, so contact the venue on bookings@fontaines.bar!

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[driveintheaterofthemind]

Vintage Poster - Die! Die! My Darling!

Columbia (1965)

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[heathermasonnum1fan]

Songs of the Week (2)

1. Bullet in the Head (Rage Against the Machine)

I’m honestly such a sucker for anything RATM-related, but this song is definitely in my top 3 this week. The band is so good at coming up with short but insanely effective slogans (is that what you call it?); like “they say jump, you say how high,” for example. Zack de la Rocha is one of the most powerful frontmen of all time, which becomes especially obvious in Bullet in the Head. This song really does give me chills.

2. Schism (TOOL)

Almost half a year later, and I’m still on Lateralus. I can’t seem to let this album go, it’s just so transcendentally beautiful I have to give it another listen. And then another. And another. I get that Schism is probably the most well-known song off this album, but I’m so tired of the ridiculous narrative that you can’t enjoy the popular songs because it makes you a ‘fake fan’ or whatever. Schism is amazing no matter which way you choose to look at it.

3. Die, Die My Darling (The Misfits)

I was originally introduced to The Misfits when I was about 10 by my dad with Dig Up Her Bones, but didn’t think much of the song or of the band until last week. Not only do they have a very solid discography, but Die, Die My Darling is such a catchy and heartfelt track that I felt it was necessary to include it this week. Apart from the mixing, which is a little strange at times, this song absolutely slaps.

4. Bleed the Freak (Alice in Chains)

Kind of an obvious favorite from Facelift, but a favorite nonetheless. I rediscovered it this week after completely overplaying it in August, but Bleed the Freak is such a genuine masterpiece that I just can’t seem to leave it alone. I don’t know what they put in this song but I am unashamedly obsessed with it (again).

5. Lullaby (The Cure)

Yet another banger from Disintegration. I swear I’ll make a separate post on this album someday, but for now I’ll have to make do with speaking about separate tracks only. Lullaby is so sincere and charming it makes me want to cry, even if at first glance there’s nothing to really cry about. Yes, it’s simple, but when has simplicity ever stopped a song from being good?

6. Testify (Rage Against the Machine)

God how I love The Battle of Los Angeles. This song is an absolute beauty, both in terms of being innovative with its music and giving you food for thought. As I’ve said before, I’ll bite at anything genuine or passionate, so you can imagine how much authentic happiness songs like Testify bring me.

7. Firestarter (The Prodigy)

Another band I was introduced to by my dad. I’ve been listening to The Prodigy quite a bit this past month because I missed a chance to go their concert in August, so really it’s no surprise that one of their songs ends up on here. Firestarter is mind-numbing, but in the best way possible; just like most of their music, this song carries the kind of energy you can’t find with any other artist. It’s gorgeous.

[bitter69uk]

Heartfelt gratitude to the attendees of the Lobotomy Room cinema club presentation of Die! Die! My Darling! in the glittering surroundings of Fontaine’s last Thursday (16 May)! Die represents the perfect example of the club’s objective to revisit and reappraise what received wisdom deems “bad movies”. Why, everyone was spellbound by it! Who knew there was such a ravenous appetite for watching Tallulah Bankhead torment Stefanie Powers? And who can forget the spine-tingling moment when Bankhead says the film’s title in a line of dialogue (“You must die … die, my darling!”) and then instead of fading to black, the screen fades to blood-red? Like I explained in my intro, the flamboyant Bankhead was primarily a stage actress who only sporadically made films (Hollywood seemingly never knew how to best utilize her charms). Her early 1930s pre-Code melodramas have a terrible reputation and flopped commercially but are juicy and interesting. Many crop up on YouTube and are worth investigating, particularly The Cheat (1931), Thunder Below, Devil and the Deep and Faithless (all from 1932). Die has links to some other titles we’ve already screened. In February 2020 we presented another Stefanie Powers movie, the lurid 1965 melodrama Love Has Many Faces starring Lana Turner. So, she was upstaged onscreen by an older diva twice the same year! And we showed Boom! (1968) - John Waters’ all-time favourite film – starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in August 2021. Boom! was adapted from the Tennessee Williams play The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. By the time she portrayed Sissy Goforth (the Taylor role) onstage in 1963, Bankhead was frail, desiccated and wracked with emphysema and probably more convincing as a dying woman than Taylor. In an inspired bit of casting, the role of the poet / gigolo / angel of death was played by 1950s heartthrob Tab Hunter! By all accounts she and Hunter loathed each other, but Bankhead was gallant when asked about the gay rumours swirling around her leading man, replying, "Well, I don't know, darling. He never sucked my cock!"

[brokehorrorfan]

NECA will release an ultimate action figure of The Misfits’ Fiend mascot in July 2023. The 7" toy is available to pre-order for $34.99.

Three interchangeable heads (including one based on Basil Gogos' artwork), two interchangeable hands, three records (Horror Business, Die Die My Darling, and Earth A.D.), two daggers, and a candelabra are included. It’s packaged in a window box with opening flap.

[killsalem]

Requested

Song: Die Die My Darling - Metallica 🔪

Genre: heavy metal, rock, old school thrash, metal, hard rock