For DAY 333 of my year long retrospective on made for TV movies that need a DVD/Blu Ray release, I chose Nowhere to Run (1978), a drama about a man who fakes his own death to start a new life & begins by devising a system to make his fortune playing blackjack. David Janssen is terrific (as always)

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

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. ❤️ #TVMParty

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

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

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? #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

Is All Well For Awful Allan? #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

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

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

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

I'm intrigued by Allan's pajamas. #TVMParty

OK, let's do a Curtis Harrington TVM Poll. I'll leave a thread of his telefilms and you just like the post with your favorite film!

How Awful About Allan's screenwriter Henry Farrell was best known as a novelist and shortly before his death had completed A Piece of Clarisse, which is about a man receiving a woman’s body parts in the mail! It is still unpublished, which feels criminal to me. #TVMParty

Part of me feels a bit like Allan should live in a house more like a REBECCA kind of estate, rather than in the suburbs. But part of the fun is that it is set amidst many other houses and families, all with their own Allans. HOW DOUR ABOUT DAVID. #TVMParty

You know what... after that dream sequence, I'm OK with Dad burning up. #TVMParty

In some ways, How Awful About Allan is similar to Don't Go to Sleep, which we watched last month in how it deals with people repressing guilt while also trying to pass that bad feeling onto someone else. This is where our worst monsters are created. #TVMParty

I do like the house sets very much. They're alternately cozy and really not so cozy. #TVMParty

That delivery boy's next stop was at Big Fat Crazy Ethel's house. #TVMParty

Yesterday when I watched this, I thought "Why the heck is trying to drive?" Today, I'm having the same thoughts. I understand that he's scared. Now, I'm worried that the "awful" thing about him is that he might be stupid. #TVMParty

How Catastrophic about Carl #TVMParty (At some point after BABY JANE, I feel like some studio had a "Hyperbolic Horror" Titling session.)

The color of the refrigerator matches the color of the walls. And they all look the same way I feel about Allan. #TVMParty

I love a good (or bad) Found Footage Film. And the hazy POV cam reminds me of modern FFF stuff. Strange shaped figures moving around in the darkness and approaching the camera. Modern day stuff would probably be a bit more jump scare laden. But it all make for the creepiness. #TVMParty

As I mentioned How Awful About Allan is based on Henry Farrell’s book of the same name which was published in 1963. Anthony Perkins claimed he was given the galleys beforehand and fell in love with it. #TVMParty

Do you think Allan would cheer up if he tried CrossFit? #YVMParty #CrossFit

I love a good "creepy room renter" scene. Building up that dread Amanda mentioned earlier. #TVMParty

The made for TV movie was just getting off the ground in 1970, when How Awful About Allan premiered. Just a few dozens films aired that season. Allan did well, garnering a 22.0/36 rating, which means 36% of the TV viewing audience tuned in to see Allan (even though he couldn't see us) #TVMParty

His fuzziness reminded me of when I was in 4th grade. That's when my eyesight started going hazy. Before I learned that I needed glasses, the nuns in the Catholic School I went to had far less sympathetic responses to me saying I couldn't read or see something. #TVMParty

"I don't want to see anyone." Allan looks grim but he hasn't lost his sense of humor. #TVMParty

I love how familiar some of the sets/ spaces in this time period can get. I'm pretty certain the asylum hallway has been a hallway in a cop show or maybe Kolchak.

How Awful About Allan original aired on September 22, 1970, and is the first film for season two of the ABC: Movie of the Week. #TVMParty

Curtis Harrington only made a handful of made for TV movies, and I'm sure we'll discuss them all here, but How Awful About Allan was his first, and it established a working relationship with both Aaron Spelling (exec. producer) and George Edwards (producer). #TVMParty

My favorite thing about this movie are the blurry POV shots They're like the wolf POV shots in WOLFEN or the Demon-cam in THE EVIL DEAD. Whenever they're happening, I pay a lot of attention. #TVMParty

"I'm blind." "Yeah, pal. Get in line behind the burned to death guy and your burnt sister with your fake 'I'm blind'." #TVMParty

Anthony Perkins's reactions to crises vary. @TVMParty

Let's begin! #TVMParty

Join us today at 1pm CST for a watchalong with Curtis Harrington's classic Movie of the Week, How Awful About Allan! Use #TVMParty to say hello, and you'll find the link to watch on YT below. See you soon! :)

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Join me and @dannyslacks1.bsky.social on November 30th, at 1 PM CST for a watchalong with Curtis Harrington's How Awful about Allan! You can watch at the link below and use #TVMParty to join the discussion! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj0b...

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I have not seen LADY. But HELL SPA is super fun. And MOUNTAIN FURY is a favorite of mine. (In fact, I sent the director my VHS copy some time ago when he found out this was happening because he didn't have a copy. He's a nice guy.) I recommend this set!