Alice, Sweet Alice (Communion) (1976)
Plot: In a rundown neighbourhood, New
Jersey, Karen (A very young Brooke Shields) is preparing for her first holy
communion. Older sister Alice (Paula
Sheppard) is jealous of the attention Karen tries to spoil things for her, threatening her and locking her in a
room of an abandoned warehouse while wearing a raincoat and fucking creepy
plastic mask.
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| Err Guilty |
The day of
the communion Karen is brutally killed in the church during the ceremony and
because Alice takes her place wearing her veil, the suspicions falls on the
deeply troubled child, especially from her aunt Annie (Jane Lowry) who really fucking
hates her niece. After she is attached
by the masked psycho this escalates.
Their mother Catherine (Linda Miller) is traumatised
by the death of her youngest but she and her husband Dom (Niles McMaster)
refuse to believe Karen is responsible and Dom investigates the murder.
It doesn't help that Alice is a mental bitch spends her days killing
little animals and putting curses on people, throw in a obese potential peado
landlord and we have a messed up situation going on.
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| I'm looking for Donald Sutherland |
All of the actors put up good performance
especially Alphonso (Alphonso DeNoble) as the fat
perverted landlord.
The subject matter is disturbing both the murder of
a small child and that it’s potentially by her own sister.
Turdige: Although the acting is good the screaming seems fake especially the
mother it gets on your tits but this is a staple of 70s films they all seem
like this.
Some people would say it has ripped chunks out
of the superior Don't Look Now (1973) mainly the
iconic, creepy rain coated small people (Its yellow completely different) but don’t let it put you off.
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| If a fuckin dog can win BGT so can I |
I watched
this film when I was very young (probably a bit too young) and the stairwell
scene scared the shit out of me I had nightmares of a knife through the foot
for years (I still look around now when I walk down one). Later I actually forgot about this movie and thought
it was a scene from Don't Look now, so when I watched
that again I thought I had dreamt it.
It was only when I had no internet and
blockbuster had gone bust I was going through my sisters DVD collection. I by
by-passed the even more terrifying Mamma Mia & found this played it and I wasn’t
mad after all, Now that shit anecdote is out of the
way.......
Overall: A
little known Horror masterpiece. suspense and atmosphere to spare. Don’t
miss out watch it.
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