There are like four decapitations in this movie and the most shocking moment is when Joan lights a match on a record while it’s playing
After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
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When you sit down to watch this, you expect to be sidetracked, perhaps even gripped, but not undermined. However, the picture subverts you in a number of subtle and strong ways. It's a horror story, but it frequently collides with sporadically humorous camp, leaving it with a stench that lasts longer than the plot's intentions. What begins as a rambunctious story of betrayal, murder, and insanity quickly devolves into a manic cat-and-mouse game of fears, desperation, suspense, and tricks.If Joan Crawford had not created such a memorable and dominating persona, this would be nothing. She does an excellent job of conveying the character's sorrow as the years pass and beauty fades. Crawford embodies the ferocious passions of a woman's perilous impulses, stressing authentic pathos while infusing incipient madness along with her comic aura, which brings the film to a pulsating life.
A woman returns to her daughter after spending twenty years in an asylum for committing a brutal double murder, only for fresh violence to begin following her arrival.
William Castle directed the film in 1964, a director renowned for his suspenseful B-movies and theatrical promotional gimmicks.
