It’s one of the big regrets of my life that i let the people i was visiting in El Paso keep me from crossing over into Juarez while i was there #TVMParty

Oooh, an all-female orchestra! #MyDreamIsYours #TVMParty

Sal Mineo. Woah. Not sure I’ve ever quite seen him this way. #tvmparty

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Awesome

Tommy Rall!!
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If we cover HOW AWFUL ABOUT ALLAN again, I want to refer to it as HAAA! #TVMParty

We are taking next month off, so we can eat gingerbread cookies and not have to think about anything else. But we'll be back in January for more TV movie watchalongs. I'll think of a good deep dive and we'll get 2026 started right!

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#TVMParty Thanks for joining us everyone! Allan may be awful, but he looks good in powder blue. Happy Holidays!

Hey, we made it.

Thanks to everyone who sat down and watched How Awful About Allan with us. It's a good one, and really works as an early marker for the kind of classic and gothic beats most of Curtis Harrington's telefilm work would lean into.

Plus, Joan Hackett. ❤️

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But the way they did works fine. I can't tell from Allan's face exactly what he's thinking and that adds to the creepiness. Random Blindness as some sort of Superpower. "When things get tough, I go blind-ish!" #TVMParty

If this were a modern-day movie, a dark shape would have shot up out of the blurriness and we would have cut to black in that last shot. #TVMParty

This ending is so good. Well done, Curtis Harrington. Well done!

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Joan Hackett would become a familiar face in the made for TV genre movie and appeared in some great films, including Five Desperate Women, Reflection of Murder, Dead of Night and The Possessed

I love her. Did I mention that?

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Is All Well For Awful Allan? #TVMParty

I love how the color scene abruptly changes in this last scene. Captures his redemption.

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I love this idea that Harris got rid of the physical remnants of the scar, but carried the deeper trauma of it with her. #TVMParty

The fire in the kitchen was started by one of four things: 1) a Jawa 2) A scrunched up Phantasm person 3) one of the DON"T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK things or 4) Julie Harris. #TVMParty

Producer George Edwards worked with Curtis Harrington on a handful of projects that include Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet and What’s the Matter with Helen?

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I'm glad this aired in a 90-minute timeslot. The length is just right. At the moment I started to lose it a bit, he gets locked in the closet with fire. What!? Allan! #TVMParty

Curtis Harrington Eulogized by Barbara Steele — The Chiseler Director Curtis Harrington (1926-2007) lead a fascinating life. Barbara Steele delivered this eulogy at Harrington’s funeral – and The Chiseler thanks her for providing an intimate portrait, publishe...

Barbara Steele gave such a love eulogy at Harrington's funeral. You can read it here:

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As I mentioned earlier, working on How Awful About Allan allowed Curtis Harrington to forge some relationships, including one with Aaron Spelling. Harrington would go on to direct Charlie's Angels, Dynasty and The Colbys. #TVMParty

Henry Farrell also said that having the male character in How Awful About Allan as the one in distress was a shift from women always being the ones in peril and he was drawn to that.

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Turning on Olive is like kicking a cat.

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The Miami Herald wrote that How Awful About Allan was “Not so much a chamber of horrors as a chamber of errors.”

:/

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The fall on the pavement hurts... and then raspy Eric shows up. Allan is having a bad day. His 475th in a row. #TVMParty

The TV Scout said How Awful About Allan was an “awful good pic.” Get it?

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Rick DuBrow of the Oregon Daily Journal thought How Awful about Allan an “enjoyable, stylized outing.”

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Kent Smith who plays Harris' ex here also appeared in Curtis Harrington’s TVM The Cat Creature (possibly a not to his role in Cat People)

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Mary B. Murphy of the Los Angeles Times thought Anthony Perkins and Julie Harris were perfect in How Awful About Allan, but the film was flawed. She actually spoils the twist at the end as well! Boo.

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Allan hiding behind the couch is delightfully absurd. How Awful About Allan... he's terrible at Hide and Seek. #TVMParty