Twisted Nerve

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Main Details

  • Released in 1968
  • Color
  • Running Time: Australia:113 min | Germany:104 min | Germany:104 min (cut version) | USA:118 min
  • Production Co: Charter Film Productions
  • Distribution Co: British Lion Film Corporation (1968) (UK) (theatrical) | National General Pictures (1969) (USA) (theatrical)
  • Directed by Roy Boulting
  • Written by Leo Marks, Roy Boulting, Roger Marshall, Jeremy Scott
  • Starring Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw, Phyllis Calvert, Frank Finlay
  • Produced by John Boulting, George W. George, Frank Granat
  • Original Music by Bernard Herrmann
  • Cinematography by Harry Waxman
  • Film Editing by Martin Charles

Tagline

  • 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.

Synopsis

Twisted Nerve is a 1968 British psychological thriller film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Billie Whitelaw and Frank Finlay. The film follows a disturbed young man, Martin, who pretends, under the name of Georgie, to be mentally retarded in order to be near Susan - a girl with whom he has become infatuated - and who kills those who get in his way. (Wikipedia)


The Tarantino Connection
In Kill Bill, Elle Driver whistles the theme from this movie which was screened at one of the first QT Film Fests in Austin, TX.
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