Home for the Holidays (1972)

Directed by

John Llewellyn Moxey

Genre

horror film, slasher film, Christmas film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 13m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A dying father calls his four daughters home for Christmas and tells them he believes his new wife is poisoning him. The daughters learn their stepmother may have killed her first husband, and someone in a yellow raincoat starts killing them.

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What happens

Home for the Holidays is a 1972 American television Christmas slasher film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey, produced by Aaron Spelling and starring Sally Field, Eleanor Parker, Julie Harris, Jessica Walter, and Walter Brennan which premiered on ABC on November 28, 1972. The plot focuses on a wealthy father on his deathbed who invites his four daughters home for Christmas and tells them he suspects his second wife of poisoning him. Shortly after, the girls learn that their stepmother was accused of killing her first husband, and they begin to fall prey to a killer dressed in a yellow rain slicker. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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