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Released
1968 · FILM

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.

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Runtime
112 min
DramaThriller

Synopsis

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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Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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Craft leads on file

Edited by Martin CharlesShot by Harry WaxmanScored by Bernard Herrmann

Also known as

  • Teufelskreis Yde
  • Sous l'emprise du démonfr
  • I nervi a pezziit

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