Twisted Nerve

Dec 20, 1968

1h 52m

★ 6.7

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.

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Horror

Production Companies

Charter Film Productions

Twisted Nerve Trailers

Cast

Susan Harper

Hayley Mills

Martin (Georgie) Durnley

Hywel Bennett

Joan Harper

Billie Whitelaw

Henry Durnley

Frank Finlay

Gerry Henderson

Barry Foster

Enid Durnley

Phyllis Calvert

Shashie Kadir

Salmaan Peerzada

Philip Harvey

Christian Roberts

Clarkie

Gretchen Franklin

Superintendant Dakin

Timothy West

Sir John Forrester

Thorley Walters

Professor Fuller

Russell Napier

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