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- Categories:Gender, Movie
- (C) 1971, Illusion, Mystery, Suspense, On Video, pub RCA/Columbia
Description
A very intriguing twist on PSYCHO almost ruined by one of the worst
editing jobs in memory. Robert Shaw returns to an isolated country
mansion with girlfriend Sally Kellerman in tow to visit his
now-teenaged daughter Sondra Locke, who is being raised a virtual
captive by Shaw's ex-wife, the now man-hating Mary Ure and Ure's
crazy mother Signe Hasso. Locke seems fairly normal despite it all,
aside from the fact that she has to take regular injections for a
'diabetic condition' she doesn't appear to have and holds heart to
heart conversations with a large ventriloquist's dummy who
occasionally kills people. You guessed it, the dummy isn't doing
the killing, and misanthropic Mary has been keeping one towering
secret from absent pa Robert about their shared child Sondra. As
stated, the terrible editing turns a potentially overpowering
chiller into a mishmosh, but if you ignore that (and all of the
clues), the secret isn't revealed until he very last sentence
spoken (over the telephone, by the by), and it makes for a smashing
denouement. Worth looking for. DSF
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originally posted by Duncan Scott FitzHugh on 2000-03-23, no edits, entryid=5598
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