A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.
Direction
Pete Walker's cruel, efficient sleaze—no fat, all malice.
Acting
Lynne Frederick's fragile unraveling sells the paranoia completely.
Score
Stanley Myers' discordant strings that genuinely unsettle.
Director
Pete Walker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pete Walker made this immediately after House of Whipcord, completing his unofficial 'women-in-peril' trilogy of mid-70s British nasties.
The film's entire marketing hinges on a complete misrepresentation of the actual disorder—something Walker later admitted was pure exploitation calculation.
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