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Miss Leslie's Dolls (1972)

Miss Leslie's Dolls poster
Directed by
Joseph G. Prieto
Genre
slasher film, LGBTQ-related film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
4.1 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Four travelers take shelter in the house of a mentally unstable transsexual woman. She preserves the bodies of women she has killed and displays them like dolls.

creepypsychologically tensebizarrelow-budgetunevenexploitativeweirddated

What happens

Miss Leslie's Dolls is a 1972 American horror film directed by Joseph G. Prieto and starring Salvador Ugarte and Terri Juston. Its plot follows four people who seek refuge in the home of an insane transsexual who collects the corpses of women. The film was released in late 1972 and was subsequently thought to be a lost film, having never received a home media release. In 2018, it was restored and released on Blu-ray and DVD in the United Kingdom by Network Distributing. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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