

Twisted Nerve
Cleaver. Cleaver. Chop. Chop. First the mom and then the pop. Then we'll get the pretty girl. We'll get her right between the curl.
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.
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- English
- obsession
- down syndrome
- stepfather
- boarding house
- psychological thriller
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalPGNew York City, New York26 Feb 1969
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical20 Dec 1968
- Physical18DVD4 Jun 2007
GermanyDE
- Theatrical16 Oct 1970
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Twisted Nerve was released on 20 December 1968.
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Wuchak
2/26/2025
**_Hayley Mills in a late 60’s psychological drama-thriller_** A 22 years-old man (Hywel Bennett) cops a childlike personality to get close to a winsome library worker in London (Mills). He seeks to get his foot in the door of her mother’s boarding house. Havoc ensues. “Twisted Nerve” (1968) was influenced by Hitchcock’s “Psycho” (and even borrows Bernard Herrmann for the score), but it’s more dramatic and l…
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