She's taking steps to escape her husband — but the stairs go somewhere worse.
The cure is more dangerous than the malady as a mild-mannered woman who is slowly summoning the strength to rid herself of a cruel and domineering husband ... permanently.
Acting
Sue Ane Langdon's simmering desperation before the snap.
Direction
Brinckerhoff stretches a TV budget into genuine unease.
Writing
The cure-as-curse premise bites harder than expected.
Director
Burt Brinckerhoff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This ABC Movie of the Week aired opposite a Cher special and still found its cult audience through late-night reruns.
Part of a 1973 wave of feminist horror TV movies (like 'The Devil's Daughter') where women's domestic prisons became literal nightmares.
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