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Director Bernhard Wicki’s 1964 The Visit [Der Besuch] stars Ingrid Bergman as rich Carla Zachanassian, who goes back home to bribe the townsfolk and to kill Serge Miller (Anthony Quinn), who seduced and drove her […]
Director Etienne Chatiliez’s 1990 French gem Tatie Danielle [Auntie Danielle] stars Tsilla Chelton, who is magnificently awful as the rich old, recently widowed grandma, whose only pleasure in life is tormenting her relatives and anyone […]
The 1973 horror mystery thriller film Night Watch is a plush, suspenseful version of Lucille Fletcher’s stage chiller. Elizabeth Taylor is on top hysterical form as a rich wife convinced she has witnessed a murder […]
Director Seth Holt’s 1965 suspense thriller The Nanny stars Bette Davis, who came to Britain to Elstree Studios to work for Hammer Film Productions as the supposedly devoted English Nanny with a dark secret in charge of a disturbed little 10-year-old boy […]
Director Robert Aldrich’s dark-toned 1969 lesbian drama features a splendid, career-best performance by Beryl Reid as June ‘George’ Buckridge, the ageing, bad-tempered, drunken lesbian actress whose imminent demise in a radio serial makes life hell […]
Director Curtis Harrington’s teasing, satisfying 1967 thriller stars James Caan and Katharine Ross as a games-playing, good-time young Manhattan married couple, Paul and Jennifer Montgomery, who take in to their posh home a foreign door-to-door […]
The bizarre 1972 British horror thriller film Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? stars Shelley Winters as dotty old Auntie Roo, a one-time singer who now sees no one, never goes out and keeps her long-dead only […]