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Curtis Harrington

Curtis Harrington

Gene Curtis Harrington was an American film and television director whose work included experimental films, horror films, and episodic television. He is considered one of the forerunners of New Queer Cinema.

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Movies Made By Curtis Harrington (28)

Usher (2002)

Writer Truman Jones travels to the home of old, eccentric poet Roderick Usher in his quest for wisdom from the aging poet. ...

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Mata Hari (1985)

In August 1914, war between France and Germany seems imminent. Mata Hari, a beautiful Dutch-born dancer working in Paris, accepts an invitation to travel to Berlin as part of a show. On the train, she meets a young German army officer but any thoughts of r ...

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Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978)

A canine minion of Satan terrorizes an unsuspecting suburban family. ...

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Ruby (1977)

Strange killings occur at Ruby's drive-in theatre, sixteen years after the murder of her gangster boyfriend. ...

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The Dead Don't Die (1975)

In the 1930s, a sailor, trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder, finds himself becoming drawn into the occult. ...

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Magick Lantern Cycle (1974)

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The Killing Kind (1974)

A young man returns home to his mother's boardinghouse after serving a prison sentence for a gang rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. ...

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Killer Bees (1974)

A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard. ...

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The Cat Creature (1973)

When a rich man dies, some items from a collection of his are stolen- an ancient Egyptian gold amulet and the mummy that was wearing it. The police consult scholars from the local University to help with the investigation, which is taking a more serious tu ...

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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)

Mrs Rosie Forrest, aka 'Auntie Roo', has a holiday tradition of inviting orphans to her mansion for a party. But Roo isn't completely sane; she lost her husband and is obsessed with her deceased daughter, whose corpse she still keeps in the house. When Kat ...

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What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)

Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom. ...

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How Awful About Allan (1970)

After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man returns home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him. ...

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Games (1967)

Wealthy and bored, Paul and Jennifer Montgomery spend their time in a New York City apartment filled with various amusements. Their routine is upended when door-to-door saleswoman Lisa Schindler drops by and is suddenly taken ill. The couple let her spend ...

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Queen of Blood (1966)

A spaceship is sent to Mars after an alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood it's evident they have rescued a bloodsucking monster. (Uses footage from Encounter in Space (1963). ...

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The Four Elements (1966)

An educational film about power sources that's rendered as a lyrical meditation on heat and vapor, The Four Elements is a poetic and avant-garde documentary Curtis Harrington made for the United States Information Agency. ...

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Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)

In 2020, following the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They're to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. Vega stays orbiting ...

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The Stripper (1963)

An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a third-rate touring show, finds herself stranded in a small town where she's courted by an infatuated and naive local teenager. ...

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Night Tide (1961)

A young sailor is enamored with a mysterious woman performing as a mermaid on the local pier. As their existences become entwined, he comes to suspect the woman might be a real mermaid who lures men to a watery death during the full moon. ...

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Return to Peyton Place (1961)

Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957 film. ...

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Mardi Gras (1958)

A military school cadet romances a visiting French actress during Mardi Gras. With songs, kissing and New Orleans locations. ...

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The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners. ...

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The Wormwood Star (1956)

A portrait of artist, actress, poet and occultist Marjorie Cameron, presenting images of her paintings and recitations of her poems. ...

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The Assignation (1953)

A figure cloaked in black and wearing a white mask wanders Venice, carrying a single rose. The entity boards a gondola to make much of its journey via the canals of the city. Its ultimate meeting and presentation of the rose will be a declaration of love o ...

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On the Edge (1951)

In this fragile yet frightening poetic fantasy set against a dark industrial landscape, a woman sits knitting on the porch of her home when a man appears and takes the knitting from her. ...

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Picnic (1949)

In the reality of American middle-class life, the protagonist experiences an idealistic dream-quest, from which he is finally cast off. ...

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Puce Moment (1949)

This film resulted from the unfinished short film Puce Women. The film opens with a camera watching 1920s style flapper gowns being taken off a dress rack. The dresses are removed and danced off the rack to music. (The original soundtrack was Verdi opera m ...

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Fragment of Seeking (1947)

A young man desperately seeks the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers far more through surreal explorations of his own sexuality. ...

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The Fall of the House of Usher (1942)

Curtis Harrington's student film based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story. ...

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Movies Starring Curtis Harrington (17)

The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

At a media-swamped party to celebrate his seventieth birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor. ...

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House of Harrington (2009)

Profile of the late iconoclastic director Curtis Harrington, featuring images from many of his poetic and haunting films. ...

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The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One (2007)

Covering the first half of Anger's career, from his landmark debut FIREWORKS in 1947 to his epic bacchanalia INAGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME, Fantoma is very proud to present the long-awaited first volume of films by this revolutionary and groundbreaking ...

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Usher (2002)

Writer Truman Jones travels to the home of old, eccentric poet Roderick Usher in his quest for wisdom from the aging poet. ...

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Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed! (2000)

A documentary from Universal about the movie "The Invisible Man" (1933) directed by James Whale. ...

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The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale (1999)

Written, co-produced and co-directed by David J. Skal, THE WORLD OF GODS AND MONSTERS is a behind-the scenes chronicle of the making of the 1998 Academy Award-winning film GODS AND MONSTERS starring Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser and Lynn Redgrave. Narrated ...

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Sex, Death & The Hollywood Mystique (1999)

Larry Wessel presents darkest Hollywood and explores some of tinsel town's most grisly tragedies, including the murders of Sharon Tate and The Black Dahlia. ...

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Universal Horror (1998)

A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s. ...

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Gods and Monsters (1998)

It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper, Ha ...

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Hollywood Halloween (1997)

Horror documentary with interviews to William Friedkin, Stan Winston, John McNaughton, Tom Holland and Ridley Scott. ...

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Working with Orson Welles (1993)

"Working with Orson Welles" is a low-budget production put together by Gary Graver, who worked as a cameraman for Welles in the last 15 years of his life. ...

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Cult People (1989)

In interviews, various actors and directors discuss their careers and their involvement in the making of what has come to be known as "cult" films. Included are such well-known genre figures as Russ Meyer, Curtis Harrington, Cameron Mitchell and James Kare ...

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The Horror of It All (1983)

A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them. ...

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Magick Lantern Cycle (1974)

Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, and author of Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger was a unique figure in post-war American culture. His iconic short films are characterised by a mystical-symbolic visual language and phantasmagorical-sensual opulenc ...

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The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)

Lord Shiva wakes. A convocation of magicians in the guise of figures from mythology; a masquerade party at which Pan is the prize. The wine of Hecate is poured: Pan's cup is poisoned by Shiva. Kali blesses the assembly as a bacchic rite ensues. ...

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Fragment of Seeking (1947)

A young man desperately seeks the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers far more through surreal explorations of his own sexuality. ...

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The Fall of the House of Usher (1942)

Curtis Harrington's student film based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story. ...

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