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Twisted Nerve

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.

Not Rated Drama Thriller Horror

Starring: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Barry Foster

Writer: Leo Marks, Roger Marshall, Roy Boulting, Roger Marshall, Jeremy Scott

Release Date:
December 20, 1968
Ratings:
6.7 / 10
Director:
Roy Boulting
Companies:
Charter Film Productions

Overview

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.