Twisted Nerve

Twisted Nerve

1968 · 112 min · EN · PG · 6.8 (44 votes)
Dir. Roy Boulting · Starring Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Barry Foster, Phyllis Calvert · Music Bernard Herrmann

Cleaver. Cleaver. Chop. Chop. First the mom and then the pop. Then we'll get the pretty girl. We'll get her right between the curl.

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Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.

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A deeply unsettling descent into a troubled psyche. This film wraps you in a suffocating atmosphere of obsession and isolation, exploring dark familial dynamics with a chilling, vintage unease.

unsettlingclaustrophobicmelancholicdisturbingslow-burnpsychological thrillervintage dramacharacter studyobsessionidentityisolationfamily dysfunction
obsessiondown syndromestepfatherboarding house
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