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Calendar Events / Announcements '24 I / Re: Reflections on “Burnt Offerings”
« on: March 28, 2022, 04:32:07 AM »
I saw the movie when it came out. Read the book too. Thought that it was okay. The filming must have been quite an experience, thanks to the presence of Bette Davis. Davis was deep in her cantankerous phase and didn't like most of the other cast members and the director. I don't think that she really enjoyed doing yet another horror movie but that's about all she was being offered back then. Oliver Reed's drunken carousing bothered her. And she didn't care much for Karen Black either, as she didn't feel that Black paid her the proper respect. And she particularly loathed DC. Their styles clashed and Davis was less than polite when Curtis' daughter passed away. Not quite the same level of animosity that she felt for Faye Dunaway but close. She did, however, like young Lee Harcourt Montgomery.
The theater that I saw Burnt Offerings in turned the theater lights back up after showing the family portraits at the end, so I never got to see DC until the movie showed up on TV.
The moral of the story? Never rent a house from The Penguin!!
The theater that I saw Burnt Offerings in turned the theater lights back up after showing the family portraits at the end, so I never got to see DC until the movie showed up on TV.
The moral of the story? Never rent a house from The Penguin!!