This little-known British film starts promisingly and some good performances but eventually the premise becomes just too ludicrous to take seriously.
Jackie is a young make-up artist with a complicated family life. Her father Edmund ( Rupert Davies ) and stepmother Dorothy ( Sheila Keith ) were incarcerated in a mental institution sixteen years earlier for the latter's cannibalism. Jackie has started looking after their delinquent daughter Debbie since her release from care and maintains the fiction that her parents are dead. They have now been released but Jackie knows Dorothy is not truly cured and brings her parcels of meat pretending its human.
Deborah Fairfax ( as Jackie )
Sex : No
Death : The film ends with Dorothy and Debbie closing in on her
This is the Southampton-born actress's only film although she made TV appearances down to 1991 including minor roles in Emmerdale Farm and Coronation Street . She is now 67.
Kim Butcher ( as Debbie )
Sex : Debbie appears in various states of undress but there's no action
Death : Survives
This was one of only two films Kim made in a short acting career.
Fiona Curzon ( as Merle )
Sex : Merle and her boyfriend are interrupted during foreplay
Death : Survives
Fiona spent her childhood in India but returned to the UK and started acting in the late sixties. She had a spell in Crossroads after this and has continued to act although her credits become well-spaced after the seventies. She is now 71.
Trisha Mortimer ( as Lillian )
Sex : No
Death : Killed ( offscreen ) by Dorothy
Trisha made just three films , the last of which , London Voodoo in 2004, was her only screen appearance in four decades.
Pamela Fairbrother ( as Delia )
Sex : No
Death : Killed ( offscreen ) by Dorothy
This was Pamela's last horror film.
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