Directed by Tony Williams
Screenplay by Michael Heath and Tony Williams
Starring Jackie Kerin, John Jarratt, Gerda Nicolson and Alex Scott
Australia/New Zealand, 1982
A young woman inherits her family’s country home which has been operating as a retirement home for years. As she looks into diaries left behind by her mother and goes through her aunt’s medical records, she also strikes up a romance with a local guy she had dated a while back. Unfortunately a dead body turns up in the retirement home bathtub and stuff starts to go south quick.
For much of the movie’s run time, I was sort of checked out. It moved along at a slow pace and I wasn’t convinced anything major was ever going to happen. But then boy oh boy did it ever. Rarely have I seen a film where the climax is so insane compared to what leads up to it.
This flick has not only a twist to kick off the climax, but then some really memorable horror scenes as well, including some business in which a victim escapes her attacker by successfully stabbing her in the eye through a keyhole. It’s inventively done, and leads to even crazier scenes of explosive carnage that I couldn’t have predicted.
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