An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She’s committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for the papers he was trying to get from her mother. And Silk’s only the beginning of her problems, since the asylum is run by a mad doctor, performing experiments in chemical lobotomies!
Acting
Mary Woronov's deliciously camp mad doctor steals every scene.
Practical Effects
Gloriously cheap lobotomy effects and silk-scarf murder weapon.
Director
Pierre De Moro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mary Woronov was a Warhol superstar before becoming queen of cult horror; this was her post-Eating Raoul exploitation era.
This film sits in the dying gasp of 1970s women-in-prison films, already parodying itself as the genre collapsed into direct-to-video schlock.
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