DEAR DEAD DELILAH
dir. John Farris, 1972
95 mins. United States.
In English.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5 - MIDNIGHT
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13 - MIDNIGHT
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26 - MIDNIGHT
Back in 1943, Luddy (Patricia Carmichael, in a wonderfully, memorably nutty performance) viciously murdered her mother with an axe. Thirty years later and freshly released from the state mental hospital, deemed “cured” of her violent impulses, Luddy’s luck is turning around thanks to a chance encounter with the family of Delilah (Agnes Moorehead, Bewitched), the miserly matriarch of a large plantation estate.
She quickly finds herself hired as Delilah’s housekeeper, but no sooner than her arrival at the cavernous and secluded mansion, grisly murders begin to take place...