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The Mad Room (1969)

The Mad Room poster
Directed by
Bernard Girard
Genre
horror film, drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
18
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman takes a job as a live-in companion for a wealthy elderly woman. She hides the fact that her brother and sister, who are mentally ill, have joined her in the isolated house.

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What happens

The Mad Room is a 1969 American horror drama film directed by Bernard Girard, and starring Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters, Skip Ward, Carole Cole, Severn Darden, Beverly Garland, Michael Burns, and Barbara Sammeth. It is a loose remake of the 1941 film Ladies in Retirement, which had been adapted from a 1940 play of the same title written by Reginald Denham and Edward Percy. The film was released by Columbia Pictures on May 1, 1969. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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