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Curtains is a Canadian classic.
It’s like Agatha Christie’s 10 Little Indians, except with six actresses auditioning, each of whom is picked off by a mysterious killer.
The role they’re vying for is for an unhinged character “Audra” and one actress commits herself to an institution as part of some extreme method acting! (unfortunately for her, she’s left to rot in the sanitarium by a Svengali weirdo director).
The movie features Samantha Eggar (The Brood) and Lesleh Donaldson, the latter memorably killed by a skate-wearing sickle swinging psychopath.
In this podcast, we talk about visiting Toronto’s Horror-Rama and meeting and chatting with Lesleh Donaldson and Lynn Griffin (the woman asphyxiated with a bag in Black Christmas, another Canadian classic).
Mitch Markowitz, the associate producer, head writer and one of the stars (Super Hippy, The Mosquito) of The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, is the special guest on this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast.
On Canadian TV stations, the show generally aired as a children’s show in an after-school or weekend morning time slot. In the United States, however, many stations aired it in a late night slot aimed primarily at college students. That’s not an indictment of our respective educational systems!