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At the tender age of 12, little Sinthia (Shula Roan) stabbed both her
mother & father when they were making love, then set the house on
fire. In court she was acquitted though, the crime was explained away as
a crime of passion out of oedipal jealousy over her father - but of
course she had to undergo psychotherapy. Now, at the age of 20, she
tells her analyst her strange nightmares, about orgies & black
masses, with the devil claiming her to be his daughter, about a
frustrated housewife (Diane Webber), who she has lesbian sex with &
a painter (Boris Balachoff) who looks suspiciously like her father &
who she wants to marry, while all the while having flashbacks to her
parents & her murdering them ... Waking up, she's still at the
analyst's couch, & he tells her she has to commit suicide in her
dream in order to come over her guilt. She goes back to sleep, &
meets Mark, the man who gives her her first kiss, but she realizes she
still can't let go of her daddy, until finally she's back at her home,
sees her parents making love, stabs them & burns down the house ...
Upon waking up, she tells her analyst she has now successfully killed
herself in her dream - but has she. And who is the man she drives away
with, looking suspiciously like her father ... ? This movie
is actually pretty hard to understand, much harder to explain - & in
this case, this actually works for the movie. Director Ray Dennis
Steckler takes into the uncomprehensible world of nightmares where
anything can be a metaphor, & a metaphor can be anything, & as
Steckler - always very much outside the mainstream - does not see
himself bound to any filmmaking conventions, he is here able to create a
triplike world all of its own, that actually has more in common with a
dream than a psychohorror-movie - which is exactly how such a movie is
supposed to be made. Looking at what movies are considered calssics
these days, this is a movie overly ripe for rediscovery !
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