I Watch Films: Homicidal


 

Homicidal

A woman offers the bellhop at the hotel $2000 to marry her that night, though she assures him the marriage will be annulled immediately. After the wedding she murders the judge who conducted the service and escapes.

Sheā€™s Emily, the companion and nurse for a mute disabled woman, Helga. Helga lives in the Webster family home, for whom she used to be the nanny and housekeeper. The elder Websters have died leaving Miriam, a florist, and her half-brother Warren, who will come into the family fortune in a few days when he turns twenty one. Heā€™s away on business, but comes back.

Strange things occur, someone breaks into Miriamā€™s shop. Emily gave the name Miriam Webster so the police come to question her. All this puzzles Miriamā€™s beau, the local pharmacist, and the family doctor.

Thereā€™s a lot of twists and turns and old secrets. Also a ridiculous gimmick, in the guise of a ā€œFright Breakā€ where a clock offers you 45 seconds to leave before Miriam enters the house for the denouement.

Watch This: A dark, tense and gender-bending thriller
Donā€™t Watch This: Itā€™s all rather silly, with both Emily and Warren behaving inexplicably (the reveal does not help), the filmā€™s occasional musing on homicidal nature clarifying nothing

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