Fanatic (1965)

Directed by

Silvio Narizzano

Genre

horror film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

10

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 56 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman goes to visit the mother of her deceased fiancé and is taken captive by the unstable older woman. The mother, who is deeply religious and obsessed with her son's memory, tries to force the woman into a twisted form of atonement.

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What happens

Fanatic (released in the United States as Die! Die! My Darling!) is a 1965 British horror thriller film directed by Silvio Narizzano in his feature directorial debut, written by Richard Matheson, and produced by Anthony Hinds for Hammer Film Productions. It stars Tallulah Bankhead (in her final feature film), Stefanie Powers, Peter Vaughan, Yootha Joyce, Maurice Kaufmann and Donald Sutherland. Based on the 1961 novel Nightmare by Anne Blaisdell (pen name of Elizabeth Linington), the film is about a woman who is kidnapped by the deranged mother of her late fiancé. Fanatic is often characterized as part of the "psycho-biddy" subgenre. The film was released in the United Kingdom by Columbia Pictures on 21 March 1965. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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