Miriam Hopkins stars as Katharine Packard, an aging movie star long retired and living in a mansion with her hired help.
The trouble starts when she hires a young man named Vic Valance (John David Garfield) who also happens to be a savage killer who dismenbers his victims. He figures this is a great way to hide from the police.
He slowly wins the heart of his aged employer and begins to take over the entire mansion. He dates and then kills her cook, Greta (Virginia Wing).
Packard's private secretary Leslie (Gale Sondergaard) knows something isn't right with Vic, but cannot get Katharine to see it that way.
Vic enevtually kills Katharine, but keeps a mannaquin in a wheel chair to fool everyone...for a while anyway. I won't give anything else away.
This is a very bleak film from start to finish, and it does work on a lot of levels. Garfield is perfect as a mad slasher who has a very sick mind.
I would recommend this little thriller that has somehow never been talked about much. The Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray is gorgeous and should be in your collection of horror films.
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