When Stryker and Sherwood see Dr.
Pendleton at the beginning of the movie, a microphone is clearly visible above them for several seconds after they sit down.
When Brooke is arguing with Monty the agent, there is a mic above Monty's desk in the first shot of him.
This 1983 horror film stars John Vernon, Samantha Eggar and Lynne Griffin. The late, Vernon (Animal House, Killer Klowns from Outer Space) plays film/play director, Jonathan Stryker who is working on a new project.
On paper, Curtains heralded the directorial debut of Richard Ciupka, a cinematographer that had worked on various cult-movies throughout the seventies and was the main camera operator on the excellent Giallo, Blood Relatives from 1982. But in fact, the movie was shot in two parts, with the second half having to be be completed by producer Peter Simpson, after an artistic disagreement saw Ciupka leave the shoot.
Director Jonathan Stryker's (John Vernon) perennial favorite leading lady, Samantha Sherwood (Samantha Eggar) is convinced by Stryker to commit herself into a mental institution for intense research for Stryker's new Horror film, Audra. Samantha manages to fool everyone who works there, and everyone buys into the theory that Samantha is mentally ill.
CURTAINS opens w/ famous actress Samantha Sherwood (Samantha Eggar) committing herself to a mental institution. She's there to do research for her latest role in a new thriller from Director Jonathon Stryker (John Vernon).
Watched this a few days ago after seeing a trailer of the film on YouTube. I recalled the creepy masked killer seen in the film as I had seen it before, so I knew I had to watch this one.
Obscure Canadian slasher Curtains boasts solid performances from a quality cast (John Vernon, Samantha Eggar and Linda 'Tara King' Thorsen) and has oodles of atmosphere, but suffers from a dearth of decent death scenes (only the oft-mentioned ice skating kill is at all memorable), a rather dreary pace, and a very silly ending that makes next to no sense (to me, at least).Eggar plays actress Samantha Sherwood, so dedicated to her art that she even commits herself to an asylum to research for her role as mentally disturbed Audra.
It was ok nothing special. I seen better slashers from the 80s.
First of all, I love cheesy 80's slasher movies. They're probably my favorite when it comes to horror films.
A bitter actress crashes an audition for a major movie role at a director's secluded mansion after spending months in a mental asylum preparing for the role and a crazed killer in a hag mask begins trimming down the competition on by one.Curtains possesses a winning concept, some wonderful actors, and a few memorable set pieces, but the script makes absolutely no sense and many of the characters have nothing to do and we learn very little about them.
