Night Tide

Specifically, we're taking a look at the more classic horror films that were originally released between the turn of the 20th century up until just before the birth of the slasher era in the 70s.

We've come to our final episode for this season, and to cap off the series where we've been digging into three of the larger classic horror studios... universal hammer and now american international pictures we're going to be covering a 1974 blaxploitation flick uh that i loved at a time and i'm questioning that as i'm revisiting it but a movie called sugar hill We just finished up Amityville Horror, and before that we did Night Tide.

That was our AIP little section in this season.

So yeah, so before we dig into this film, I kind of just wanted to take a second and explore our familiarity with the 70s era of blaxploitation cinema.

Anders also played a murder victim in Francis Ford Coppola's Dementia 13.

She also appeared in Curse Harriton's cult film Night Tide opposite Dennis Hopper, who later cast her as one of the hippie commune girls who go skinny dipping with Hopper and Peter Fonda in the film Easy Rider.

We had Anthony Carbone as Dr. Leon.

Other credits include the movie A Bucket of Blood, and he was also in the Twilight Zone episode The Mirror.

I don't think you can take anything out of anybody's life and have them reach the same destination.

So I think that she had to go through the Parsons marriage and all of that, which isn't to say she wouldn't have gone on to greatness in some other way, but I don't think she would be this kind of century-spanning, titanic force of art and poetry and film and witchcraft that she is without encountering the weird West Coast, like, Crowleyan scene that Jack Parsons was putting together.

But no, I think, I mean, sure, some people are probably destined for greatness in one way or another, but...

Yeah, what I mean by that is obviously her time at the Agape Lodge and really the introduction of Thelema and Alistair Crowley into her life does go on to heavily inspire her.

Um,

yeah, I mean, you can kind of see, and it's, uh, damn, is it inauguration of the pleasure dome she's been, or is it vacation? Yeah.

Um, you can see in that film, which I haven't watched in years, but like a very show stealing like visage.

I don't know.

Yeah, right.

But for my AIP pick, I chose Night Tide, directed by Curtis Harrington, starring baby Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, and Gavin Muir.

It's a movie that I saw and enjoyed a long time ago, and I've been looking for a reason to pick it ever since we started the Crestwood House show, really.

So now is finally the time.

But she also has a series of drowned boyfriends in her history.

And it's just possible that she may be a real life siren.

So, Sean, is this your first time watching Night Tide?

This is my first time watching Nightside, yeah.

And speaking of kind of middle 20th century black and white movies, that's what we're going to watch.

I'm going to choose Night Tide from 1961.

This is a movie that I have had on my list to get to since we first started the show and just hadn't really found a place to plug it in yet.

And so I was really excited when we decided we were going to do a trio of American international movies.