Homicidal

Homicidal

By William Castle

  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release Date: 1961-06-07
  • Advisory Rating: NR
  • Runtime: 1h 27min
  • Director: William Castle
  • Production Company: William Castle Productions
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • iTunes Price: USD 12.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
6.5/10
6.5
From 76 Ratings

Description

A pretty but rather strange young nurse presides over a creepy household which consists of a mute stroke victim and a decidedly unmacho young man. HOMICIDAL! is directed by William Castle.

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  • Its..

    5
    By Pey1128
    I watched the trailer and it was pretty good....I might rent it Anybody that thinks its bad, Go to hell cause you r u soooo wrong...!!!
  • A fascinating curio from the legendary William Castle

    4
    By JimboSF
    The plot description above really does not do this film justice. I programmed a special screening of this film as part of the San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in the early '90s and the audience loved it. HOMICIDAL is a shamelessly exploitative and wonderfully intriguing adventure in 1960s gender psychology starring the remarkable Jean Arless (whose actual gender is never revealed, but we're pretty sure she's a woman who does good male drag). The film starts with a girl happily seated at her dollhouse. She's interrupted by a young boy, who steals her doll (but, is he a boy?). Flash forward to a marriage, a murder, a lonely mansion, and a mute, wheelchair-bound woman from Denmark. Lured in yet? Director William Castle was in top form with this spooky movie. Castle was a master of horror film marketing —HOMICIDAL features a "Fright Break" near the end to give the timid time to scram. Dismissed as a mere PSYCHO rip-off in its day, HOMICIDAL turns out to be something else again, offering an eerie commentary on what makes boys boys and girls girls.

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