Curtis Harrington
September 17, 1926 - May 6, 2007
RIP
Mr. Harrington started as a teenage amateur filmmaker, became a force in the experimental cinema of the ’40s and ’50s, and then brought his quirky vision to the Hollywood studios. He was an actor, writer, cinematographer, assistant producer and crew member, but was best known as the director of more than two dozen brazenly scary, often intellectually provocative horror films. Time magazine called him “Poe with a megaphone.”
His first commercial feature, “Night Tide” (1961), starred Dennis Hopper, whose character begins to suspect that a woman who plays a mermaid in a carnival is a real mermaid with an intriguing twist: she kills at the full moon. In a memorable scene, the hero trails the heroine by following her wet trail.
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