Horror

Thriller

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?

Hemdale

American International Pictures

United Kingdom

English

Shelley Winters

Mark Lester

Chloe Franks

Ralph Richardson

Lionel Jeffries

Hugh Griffith

Rosalie Crutchley

Pat Heywood

Judy Cornwell

Michael Gothard

Jackie Cowper

Richard Beaumont

Marianne Stone

Dorian Healy

Tristam Cones

Jimmy Sangster

Robert Blees

Desmond Dickinson

Sally Nicholl

Samuel Z. Arkoff

Curtis Harrington

James H. Nicholson

Kenneth V. Jones

Richard Langford

Donald Toms

Norman Jones

June Randall

Bridget Sellers

Colin M. Brewer

Dennison Thornton

Peter Lennard

Ken Ritchie

Pat McDermott

Eddie Knight

David D. Osborn

Sylvia Croft

Joyce James

George Provis

Gavin Lambert

Louis M. Heyward

John Pellatt

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Shelley Winters is super in this oddball horror. She ("Mrs. Forrest") invites ten young children into her mansion-cum-orphanage one Christmas - desperate to fill the void left by the death of her young daughter Katherine. Two children who did not get invited - "Katy" (Chloe Franks) and her brother "Christopher" (Mark Lester) decide that they are not going to be left out - but when the girl ends up locked in the attic, it falls to her brother to manage to convince everyone that his sister has been kidnapped, and that the old lady is not of particularly sound mind! A solid cast support the star here - Sir Ralph Richardson, Lionel Jeffries - in a straight (ash) role for a change, and the always engaging Hugh Griffith, but somehow once the film gets going I expected it to turn comedic. There just isn't any menace. Winters' performance is just scatty, never scary. Still, the ensemble delivers a reasonable script well enough and there are just about enough creepy goings on in the house to sustain it before an ending that i found rather sad.

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Shelley Winters

Mark Lester

Chloe Franks

Ralph Richardson

Lionel Jeffries

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Rosalie Crutchley

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