Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? is a 1971 British horror-thriller film directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Shelley Winters, Mark Lester and Chloe Franks. Like What's the Matter with Helen? (both films were included in MGM Midnite Movies Double Feature) or more well-known films of the genre (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte), it is one of the many films using the Psycho-biddy genre.
Jimmy Sangster (billed as James...
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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? is a 1971 British horror-thriller film directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Shelley Winters, Mark Lester and Chloe Franks. Like What's the Matter with Helen? (both films were included in MGM Midnite Movies Double Feature) or more well-known films of the genre (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte), it is one of the many films using the Psycho-biddy genre.
Jimmy Sangster (billed as James Sangster), Robert Blees and David D. Osborn co-operated to write the screenplay. Other titles that have been used for the film are Gingerbread House (screenplay working title) and simply Who Slew Auntie Roo? (poster title), while the film tagline was The hand that rocks the cradle has no flesh on it!.
Other actors that were included in the film were Lionel Jeffries, Rosalie Crutchley, Ralph Richardson, Hugh Griffith, Judy Cornwell and Michael Gothard. The film is believed to be a bizarre twist to the known fairytale of Hansel and Gretel. The...
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