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Twisted Nerve (1968)

Twisted Nerve poster
Directed by
Roy Boulting
Genre
drama film, horror film, slasher film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 58m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 60 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man fakes an intellectual disability to get close to a woman he is obsessed with. He murders anyone who gets between them.

tenseunsettlingchillingsuspensefulcreepydarkdisturbingslow-burn

What happens

Twisted Nerve is a 1968 British psychological thriller horror 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 intellectually impaired in order to be near Susan, a girl with whom he has become infatuated. Martin kills those who get in his way. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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