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Debbie (Kim Butcher) seems like the typical 15 year-old brat, who just
can't stay out of trouble, & every now & again even seems to cause
barroom brawls. The only one who cares for her is her older stepsister
Jackie (Deborah Fairfax), who has taken her into custody after their
parents died. But jacki gets more & more fed up wioth the girl ...
Thing is, Debbie's parents did not die when Debbie was very little but
were committed to an asylum, because her mother Dorothy (Sheila Keith) had
a habit of killing people then eating from them, while her dad Edmund
(Rupert Davies) got rid of the corpses. Now though they have been
released, & Jackie pays them visits regularly, while still shielding
Debbie from their bad influence ... 'cause you see, mother Dorothy seems
to have not quite kicked the habit of eating people, but Jackie
regularly brings her meat packages she claims to be human flesh (they are
not) just to keep her from killing. Without success though, because mama,
in the guise of a tarot reader, lures lonely souls into her living room,
which they don't leave (alive).
Meanwhile Jackie's as-goog-as boyfriend Graham (Paul Greenwood), a
psychiatrist, has taken a purely professional interest in Debbie & he
starts treating her (or he thinks he is) & researches in the girl's
background ... & soon finds out about her parents.
Meanwhile, Debbie has taken on killing as a favourite pastime as well,
& she presents her boyfriend John with the dead body of a barman
(Michael Sharvell-Martin) who was slightly rude to her once &
persuades him to help her dump him ... at her parents' house - yes, she
ahs found out about her parents in the meantime as well, & now wants
mummy to be proud of her when showing her the barman's body ... and
presenting her with her boyfriend to kill.
& happy mama is. Then Graham shows up, wanting to find out more
about Debbie's parents, & walks right into a trap that wasn't even
there. Of course mother & daughter happily kill him, while daddy
desperately tries to keep up with hiding the bodies.
Then Debbie realizes there is only one person left between her & a
happy family life: Jackie.
So she lures Jackie to her parents as well and ... the ending is left
open, but suffice to say, Jackie doesn't look as if she was dealt a
winner's hand.
A Pete Walker film as we like them best: The plot is incredibly
far-fetched (even compared to his previous House
of Whipcord), & despite having an actual story to tell it
seems like little more than a hanger for some twisted violence (though its
depiction is not quite as graphic as other reviews might suggest), the
budget was obviously low & the direction is very straight forward
without being overly blunt.
In other words: Highly recommended.
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