The Afflicted (2010)
- Directed by
- Jason Stoddard
- Genre
- exploitation film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 4.5 of 10 from 36 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A mentally disturbed mother uses her twisted interpretation of the Bible to justify abusing her four children. She tortures and murders two of them over the course of the 1980s.
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What happens
The Afflicted (also known as Another American Crime) is a 2011 American horror thriller film written and directed by Jason Stoddard. A limited theatrical release, it is based on the crimes of Theresa Knorr, an American woman who killed her husband in 1964, and torture-murdered two of her children during the 1980s. It stars Leslie Easterbrook as Maggie, a mentally disturbed mother of four who begins abusing her children based on her own twisted interpretations of the Bible. Kane Hodder co-stars as Maggie's husband, Hank. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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