Alan Bunce, Diane Baker, Edith Atwater
The brutal stabbing murder of a justice-of-the-peace sparks an investigation of dark family secrets in a sleepy small town in Southern California.
DVD Release Date: March 12, 2002
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October 13, 2007a classic camp with jaw-dropping plot twist which is so seamlessly pulled off. even it's not something made with great sophistication but the outsetting 30 mins is adrenlinizingly tense with the rapid chopping knife from a ferociously lunatic female. and it's mounting with gradua...( read more)
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September 14, 2009William Castle's Psycho cash in is surprisingly engaging, though some of the convoluted plotting may require a second viewing, or maybe I just wasn't that invested in the final reveals of the film.
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October 28, 2008Pretty good Psycho rip-off. I am not sure how surprising the big twist is supposed to be but I figured it out pretty fast, but maybe I had already seen it somewhere.
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October 6, 2008Wow. Ugliest male lead ever. And yet this movie was weirdly creepy in the homicidal scenes. The rest of it was kind of goofbally and slow. And the lead--did I mention how ugly he was? He also had the most irritating speech mannerisms as well.
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July 14, 2008Unusual, even by William Castle's standards! Not perfect due to some mostly technological limitations of the time (or budget), but it can still fool you into thinking you're seeing something that's not there. The Castle "gimmick" in this doesn't require 3D glasses or in-theate...( read more)
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October 12, 2007A murder mystery with a twist at the end. Basically William Castle does Ed Wood Jr. except with a somewhat bigger budget. The "fright break" detracted from the movie-I don't think that was what Mr. Castle had in mind.
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