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SPOILER: Explaining the ending of this film
The key to understanding this film is that the murder and the aftermath ALL TAKE PLACE IN THE WIFE'S MIND--she "imagines" murdering her husband after the savage beating of her daughter. Remember, she is on medication throughout the film and the dream sequences show her altered world-view. At the end of the film, everything is as it was in the beginning because NOTHING ACTUALLY HAPPENED...hope that clears it up!

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Alfred the butler is from hell!
Not to be confused with the 1972 horror film about wax museums called Crucible of Terror; This is Crucible of Horror (1970) - British title: The Corpse. The film stars Michael Gough (Alfred from the Batman films) as Walter Eastwood - a wealthy, cruel & sadistic husband and father. Yvonne Mitchell plays Edith, the poor unfortunate woman who's basically lost her soul being married to Walter. Their children are Jane (Sharon Gurney) and Rupert (played by Gough's real life son, Simon). Walter consistently abuses Jane and praises Rupert. In one frightening scene, Walter beats Jane with a reed for stealing money from a friend of his. Rupert is the only one with a reasonably normal relationship with Walter - and why shouldn't he be? Walter puts his son on a pedestal and abuses his wife and daughter mentally and physically. The point of the film is that Edith and Jane reach their breaking point and decide to end their abuse by putting an end to Walter. So they poison him and make it look like a suicide. Then they have to worry about keeping it from Rupert. Things don't go exactly as planned. I won't dare ruin the outcome of this suspenseful british classic. If your a fan of the best Hammer films and horror of the late 60s and 70s, I highly recommend seeking Crucible of Horror out. Turn the lights out when you watch this. You'll never see Alfred the butler in the same way again!

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A NOVEL THRILLER.
While not a great film by any means, it's a rather clever exercise in keeping the viewer registered in different types of fears: from nervousness to terror via anxiety and shock while the narrative abandons any pretense of verisimilitude. I remember watching this off-beat, rather fascinating little film on the telly in California years ago, and I just viewed it again at a revival theatre. A psycho-thriller, it features Gough as the tyrannical husband and father whose corpse emerges - repeatedly - after he had been "murdered" by his wife and daughter. Eventually, as if nothing ever happened, he resumes his place at the head of the dinner table, leaving his befuddled - to say the least - wife staring dementedly into space...Basically it's a bizzare psychological allegory which indicates that killing a patriarch doesn't eliminate patriarchy.