Night of the Strangler

Denise is pregnant and becomes the initial target of a deadly sequence after telling her brothers. She is murdered when an intruder drowns her in the bathtub and slits her wrists to fake a suicide, triggering a chain of retaliations that expose the family’s dark secrets.

Denise’s brother who resents theSituation and blames Dan for the tragedy. He escalates the violence, stabbing Dan in the chest during a confrontation, and endures the loss of his wife Ann as part of the family’s spiral of vengeance.

Denise’s other brother who becomes entangled in the deadly scheme. He defends himself against Willie, is stabbed by Vance, and is ultimately killed by Jake as the murders close in.

The apparent priest who reveals he is actually Jake, the twin who engineered the murders in revenge for the real Jessie’s death. He kills Dan, and the ending suggests the police used a venomous snake to trap him.

Dan’s wife, who had previously been Vance’s girlfriend. She becomes a casualty of the killer’s machinations when a venomous snake is delivered in a bouquet to their home.

Vance’s wife, who dies from a poisoned arrow shot via a booby-trap in Vance’s car, illustrating how far the plan extends into the family’s life.

The Roberts family gardener who lunges at Dan at the marina and is killed by Dan in self-defense, becoming one of the series of violent incidents driving the plot.

The killer who murders Denise’s fiancé and later returns to target Dan. His fate is sealed when he is shot by a guard at the marina, leaving the trail of killings unresolved until the climax.