

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
She's Taking a STAB at Motherhood!
Mrs Rosie Forrest, aka 'Auntie Roo', has a holiday tradition of inviting orphans to her mansion for a party. But Roo isn't completely sane; she lost her husband and is obsessed with her deceased daughter, whose corpse she still keeps in the house. When Katy Coombs sneaks into the party with her brother, Christopher, the deranged biddy abducts the young girl with the hopes of replacing her daughter.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $800K
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- Language
- English
- new year's eve
- kidnapping
- brother
- christmas tree
- sister
- orphan
- house fire
- teddy bear
- séance
- child kidnapping
- fake psychic
- older brother younger sister
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG15 Mar 1972
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical11 Feb 1972
GermanyDE
- Theatrical128 Feb 1980
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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? was released on 11 February 1972.
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CinemaSerf
5/28/2023
Shelley Winters is super in this oddball horror. She ("Mrs. Forrest") invites ten young children into her mansion-cum-orphanage one Christmas - desperate to fill the void left by the death of her young daughter Katherine. Two children who did not get invited - "Katy" (Chloe Franks) and her brother "Christopher" (Mark Lester) decide that they are not going to be left out - but when the girl ends up locked in the attic…
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