Welcome to episode 39 of The Horror Double Bill the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts

This week we have two films that are based on works by Daphne du Maurier, an English novelist, playwright, and biographer whose stories and novels have been adapted multiple times for stage, radio television and of course for film.

First up nature strikes back with The Birds from 1963 starring Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette and Veronica Cartwright. 

Then we jump forward a decade for a story of grief, guilt and extra sensory perception in Venice with Don’t Look Now from 1973. This stars Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie and Hilary Mason, and was directed by Nicolas Roeg.

Along the way, will be discussing the life aren’t works of Daphne du Maurier, the troubling relationship between Hitchcock and his lead actress Tippi Hedren, the career of Nicolas Roeg, and much much more

Recommendations

The Birds by Daphne du Maurier

Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Performance (1970)

Walkabout (1971)

The Comfort of Strangers (1990)

Who Saw Her Die (1972)

The Bloodstained Shadow (1978)

The Talented Mr Ripley (1999)

 References

The Birds by Daphne du Maurier

Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_du_Maurier

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-blagger-s-guide-to-daphne-du-maurier-7742072.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/may/05/fiction.daphnedumaurier

dumaurier.org

The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds  by Tony Lee Moral (Kamera books)

The Birds by Camille Paglia (BFI Film Classics)

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/11/what-tippi-hedren-learned-from-alfred-hitchcocks-harassment

https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/tippi-hedren-memoir-the-birds-extract

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tippi_Hedren

Don’t Look Now by Mark Sanderson (BFI Film Classics)

Don't Look Now blu-ray special edition from Studio Canal. 

Don’t Look Now by Jessica Gildersleeve  (Devil’s Advocates) 

https://bfidatadigipres.github.io/big%20screen%20classics/2024/09/10/dont-look-now/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_and_Other_Stories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film)

https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/3924

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_du_Maurier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_du_Maurier

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