Curtis Harrington was an excellent and shamefully underrated writer and director who specialized in marvelously offbeat and atmospheric low-budget independent horror pictures. Harrington was born on September 17th, 1926 in Los Angeles and grew up in Beaumont, California. A lifelong hardcore film buff from a very young age, Harrington worked as a movie theater usher, a messenger at Paramount, and a stagehand during his younger days. He made his first 8mm effort at age fourteen and attended UC ...[Read Story]