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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

And this is Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema, we're going to be talking about the 1961 horror fantasy romance Nighttide, written and directed by Curtis Harrington, starring Dennis Hopper and Linda Lawson. So this movie had been on my list for a while.

I think I added it to the list after we talked about Curtis Harrington in our episode on Queen of Blood, a later movie by Harrington from 1966.

If you don't remember that episode, Queen of Blood was the Roger Corman financed sci-fi horror movie in which a bunch of astronauts rescue an alien emissary who is shipwrecked on the Martian Moon Phobos.

But then while they're on the way back to Earth, it turns out, uh-oh, she's a vampire and she wants to drink all their blood. One of the members of the crew in that movie, not the main member of the crew, kind of a secondary character is played by Dennis Hopper, which is going to be a funny connection to this movie. Yeah, I believe John Saxon might have been the lead in that one, and Basil Rathbone was in it as well. Basel Rathbone playing one of those stay in one room and read some lines roles.

But yeah, John Saxon is on the spaceship.

I think Dennis Hopper gets his blood drank.

You do.

Yes.

But Queen of Blood was notable for being like half original footage and half footage from a couple of pre-existing Soviet science fiction movies,

mostly like special effects shots from these movies had been bought. And then I think Roger Corman's

like, yeah, you know, we already own the rights to this. Let's make another movie out of it.

Yeah. But in the end, far better film than it had any right to be given those constraints.

Yes, and I think it helps that those special effects shots that they bought in actually do look very good,

like very artful, you know, kind of beautiful, pleasing special effects shots.

But anyway, the funny thing about that is, according to Curtis Harrington,

Corman offered to put up the financing for Queen of Blood because he was impressed with

Nighttide, the movie that we're going to be talking about today. Nighttide had been Harrington's

first feature film. So, especially once we start talking about this movie,

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