104: Curtains

About this episode

The episode discusses the 1983 slasher film 'Curtains' and its troubled production history.

This week we're heading north to the 51st state of Canada for a listener request. It's Curtains, the 1983 slasher film from producer Peter Simpson who last brought you the smash hit Prom Night. Directed (partially) by cinematographer Richard Ciupka, Curtains is a gigantic mess of a whodunnit that had ambitions to be a North American riff on the movies of Dario Argento and Mario Bava, an arty, very European approach to a violent murder mystery in the giallo style. Unfortunately, this was not what the producers expected and Ciupka bailed on the entiree project leaving it on the shelf for a year before Simpson himself took it down and dragged it across the finish line. In Curtains five young women gather at the home of director John Stryker, a megalomaniac auteur director with designs on producing a film called Audra but not that long ago he was planning on producing it with his muse, Samantha Sherwood who had herself committed to a mental hospital for research. While inside, Stryker moved on from her but now she's out and pissed off. But what's this? A mysterious killer is knocking them all off one by one. You think you know who the killer is, but do you really? Join the Bring Me…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bryan White, David White

Topics covered

• slasher film
• horror
• film review
• murder mystery
• giallo

Keywords

• Curtains
• slasher
• horror film
• Peter Simpson
• Richard Ciupka
• murder mystery
• giallo

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Curtains, Prom Night, Audra

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