Welcome to a Psychotic Saturdays!-Saturday!! Today’s post features six classically cult-astic flicks. Three feature Joan Crawford, along with Bette Davis, then we have Priscilla Alden in two flicks and the last one is purely Shirley Stoler. So enjoy the horribly good in being so twistedly bad.
1. Strait-Jacket (1964)
The film is directed by William Castle and features Miss Crawford. Also in the cast are Diane Baker and Leif Erikson. Lucy Harbin has been in an asylum for 20 years after axing her husband and his mistress during a crime of passion, witnessed by her young daughter, Carol. While trying to renew ties with Carol, who is now a young woman about to be married, heads begin to roll again. Is Lucy repeating her past?
2. Berserk (1967)
Monica Rivers, is the owner and ringmaster of a traveling circus and who'll stop at nothing to draw bigger audiences. When a series of mysterious murders begins to occur and some of her performers die gruesomely, her profits soar. She hires high-wire walker Frank Hawkins, impressed by the handsome and muscular young man. They begin an affair which arouses her previous lover Durando's jealousy. When Durando is found dead shortly afterward, the other performers begin to take alarm, as a mysterious killer is obviously loose in their midst. Many suspect Monica herself of the killings, especially Matilda, who has set her sights on Monica's new lover. At this point, Monica's unruly, sixteen-year-old daughter Angela, is expelled from school for being incorrigible and Monica is forced to take her into the circus, allowing her to become the partner of knife-thrower Gustavo. Meanwhile, the dead bodies continue to pile up... Directed by Jim O’Connolly the film stars Crawford as well as Ty Hardin and Diana Dors.
3. What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)In a decaying Hollywood mansion, Jane Hudson, a former child star, and her sister Blanche, a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, live in virtual isolation. The film was directed by Robert Aldrich and stars Crawford and Davis as the sisters.
4. Criminally Insane (1975)
After her doctors declare her ready to return to society, Ethel leaves the psychiatric hospital and goes to live with her grandmother. She soon develops a few odd habits, in particular a insatiable compulsion to eat massive amounts of food. When grandma locks away the food supply out of fear for her granddaughter's health, Ethel kills her for the keys to the pantry. Left to her own devices, she now indulges her hunger non-stop, murdering anyone who dares to stand in her way. Will anyone be able to put a stop to her? Starring Priscilla Alden and Michael Flood the film was directed by Nick Millard.
5. Criminally Insane 2 (1987)
Directed by Nick Millard and starring Priscilla Alden, Michael Flood and Jane Lambert. A mental hospital, faced with a severe decrease in funding, is forced to release mass-murderer Ethel Janowski into a halfway house. Ethel is psychotic, delusional and has a hefty appetite. In fact, her killing spree began 13 years before with the murder of her grandmother, who had forced her to go on a diet. Now that she's tasted the home-cooked fare at the halfway house, she'll do absolutely anything to get more.6. Honeymoon Killers (1969)
Based on the true story of Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, who met through a lonely-hearts correspondence club. Ray is weedy, feral, and untrustworthy; Martha is enormous, compulsive, and needy. Together, they play out a horrifying scheme in which he lures lonely women out on dates and proposes marriage to them, with her pretending to be his sister. They take the women's savings and then murder them remorselessly. Dank, claustrophobic, and weirdly engrossing, this movie never quite gives in to the comforts of conventional narrative. Francois Truffaut named it as his favorite American film. Directed by Leonard Kastle the film stars Shirley Stoler as Martha Beck. Also in the cast is Tony Lo Bianco ,Mary Jane Higby and Doris Roberts.
Six truly disturbed stories of deep psychosis to make your Saturday a bit more psychotic. Enjoy and have a twisted time!
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