Twisted Nerve

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.

Directed by Roy Boulting

Produced by Charter Film Productions

1968112 min6.8 / 10

A dark psychological thriller that traces the descent of a disturbed young man into obsession and violence, rooted in family dysfunction and fractured identity.

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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