Year: 1974
Runtime: 88 mins
Language: English
Director: Pete Walker
In 1957 Dorothy Yates was locked away for murders and cannibalism, with husband Edmund jailed for covering them up. Fifteen years later they are declared sane and released, though doctors may have misread her darkness. Edmund and eldest daughter Jackie investigate the extent of Mother’s bloodlust, while youngest Debbie uncovers the family’s dark past.
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