Sunday, December 21, 2014

482. Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (aka Night Warning) (1982)

December 21, 2014

'Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker' was an extremely effective and very dark thriller about a young boy who was sent to live with his aunt (the amazing Susan Tyrrell) after his parents died in a car wreck. Tyrrell was very loving, but also very controlling and seemed jealous of the boy's girlfriend. After she accidentally killed a repairman who refused to make love to her and then claimed he tried to rape her, a homophobic police officer (Bo Svenson) tried to pin the murder on the boy, who he believed was gay (because the handyman was gay and he found the boy with the knife in his hand when he arrived). Tyrrell quickly unraveled and became a twisted, emotional, and murderous wreck, and the boy tried to clear his name with a sadistic and unreasonably bigoted officer looking for any excuse to throw him behind bars. It is currently available from Code Red, so pick up a copy and check it out.

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