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.”

6.7(60)19681h 52m

DramaThrillerHorror

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.

Director

Roy Boulting

Where to watch

Free

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Cast

Hayley Mills

Susan Harper

Hywel Bennett

Martin (Georgie) Durnley

Billie Whitelaw

Joan Harper

Frank Finlay

Henry Durnley

Barry Foster

Gerry Henderson

Phyllis Calvert

Enid Durnley

Salmaan Peerzada

Shashie Kadir

Christian Roberts

Philip Harvey

Gretchen Franklin

Clarkie

Timothy West

Superintendant Dakin

Thorley Walters

Sir John Forrester

Russell Napier

Professor Fuller

Reviews

1 review

Wuchak

1y ago

6.0

**_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...