This starts out with a kid strangling a cat to death in a bowl of milk. From there we find out he had a pretty shitty upbringing by his mum(40s starlet Lana Turner in another example of 70s "hag-horror" a genre many old-timey actresses ended in at the time). It turns out mom is quite a bit nutty and has some revenge plans of her own which include baby-killing, regular-killing and hiring a prostitute to seduce her son and wreck his marriage(but not necessarily in that order). This one is a pretty big downer of a film with not many characters to sympathize with. It's hard not to feel a little bad for old Lana, especially in scenes where she reminisces about how beautiful she once was but I guess that's how Hollywood rolled in those days. Despite it's fairly slow pace(typical British cinema!) it is bizarre enough for one viewing and the ending is pretty far out there. AKA PERSECUTION and THE TERROR OF SHEBA
Squiggle-vision Trailer!:
Glorious VHS box cover which makes it seem more like a horror film than the thriller that it is:
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