PICTURE MOMMY DEAD
dir. Bert I. Gordon, 1966.
USA. 83 min.
In English.

A unique mid-career effort by Bert I. Gordon (EMPIRE OF THE ANTS, FOOD OF THE GODS) that sees the director wading uncharacteristically into gothic-horror territory to tell the story of Susan Shelley, a young heiress who must evade the machinations of her incompetent, conniving guardians to solve the mystery behind her mother’s (Zsa Zsa Gabor) death. Fresh out of the asylum, Susan struggles to distinguish between hallucination, supernatural phenomena and the trickery of her spendthrift father and his covetous partner, who wish for nothing more than to see her recommitted and to lay claim to her inheritance. Gordon cleverly keeps things ambiguous until the fiery finale.