Alice, Sweet Alice

Possibly the closet American relation to an Italian giallo.

...the writing is sub-par, most of the performances are campy bad (as opposed to campy good) and the scares are pretty minimal. I’m not even sure I get the cult status surrounding it.

...increasingly tedious and tiresome...

While its plotting sashays into the ludicrous, with its campiness always underlined by a queasy peculiarity, Alice, Sweet Alice is a captivating exercise in the macabre.

A flop upon its original release, Alice, Sweet Alice has since been saved from complete irrelevance by film scholars and cultists, even if it still doesn't quite enjoy the reputation it deserves.

Prominently placing Catholic iconography in certain frames, Sole does violence to the idea that Christ is the redeemer of anything; least of all our sins.

Well regarded among horror fans, Alice Sweet Alice has aged surprisingly well and stands up to repeated viewings like many of the best films of the seventies, particularly with its look and style.

There's nobody to really root for in this movie, just a joyless bunch of terrified, damaged, working class hypocrites who offer up their children to the alter of Christ without conscience...and suffer gravely for it.

Well-crafted, eerie, thinking man's slasher flick, about a dysfunctional devout Catholic family under attack from an unknown assailant.

Unfairly, a lot of people know it today because it features the big-screen debut of Brooke Shields.