A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.
Acting
Uta Hagen's Ada steals every scene she's in
Cinematography
Golden hour horror, wheat fields never looked so sinister
Direction
Mulligan builds dread through what's unseen
Director
Robert Mulligan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Udvarnoky twins never acted again; this was their only film. Mulligan found them through a Chicago talent search and specifically wanted non-actors for that eerie naturalism.
Adapted by Tom Tryon from his own novel, this quietly influenced 'The Sixth Sense' and 'Hereditary' — the dead-sibling-as-ghost-before-its-time template starts here.
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