Filmed USA
Rosie Forrest, an eccentric but kindly widow [who keeps the mummified corpse of her daughter in her attic] regularly invites ten young children from the local orphanage for a Christmas dinner. Brother and sister Christopher and Katy gatecrash the party and Rosie becomes obsessed with Katy who resembles her dead child. As their relationship develops, Christopher's jealousy leads him to suspect that Rosie is a witch and when he tries to lure Katy away from her, she reveals her true colours...
Curtis Harrington
CAST
Shelley Winters [Rosie Forrest]
Mark Lester [Christopher]
Ralph Richardson [Mr Benton]
Judy Cornwell [Clarine]
Michael Gothard [Albie]
Hugh Griffith [The Pigman / Mr Harrison]
Lionel Jeffries [Inspector Willoughby]
Chloe Franks [Katy]
Rosalie Crutchley [Miss Henley]
Pat Heywood [Doctor Mason]
Jacqueline Cowper [Angela]
Richard Beaumont [Peter]
Charlotte Sayce [Katharine]
Marianne Stone [Miss Wilcox]
Psychotronic no.16 pp.44, 45-46 [USA]
review
Video Watchdog 14 pp.39-40, 51 [USA]
review
Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror [2nd edition] p.245 credits, review
Ten Years of Terror p.129 [UK: FAB Press (2001)] illustrated credits, review [by Nigel Burrell]