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Posted: 1/23/05 at 10:46pm
Hi all. Can someone PLEASE help me? Years ago I saw a great black & white horror film. It was from the 1950's, possibly very early 1960's. It was American.
It was a bit campy yet eerie. Murders are being committed, in a desolate old house. In the final climax, the it is revealed that the murderer is one of the female characters, who, as it turns out is actually a man in female drag.
The entire film you believed it WAS a woman. The drag was ASTOUNDINGLY convincing. The actor essaying the role was a genteel lady in look, manner, vocal. In the final showdown, this "woman" reveals to her intended final female victim that she is really a man and is, in a Norman Bates-y way, closing in on her with either a knife, or a pair of scissors. (It has not been revealed at all until this climactic finish that this is really a man in drag.)
I recall being amazed that this was actually cranked out during the conservative 50's/early 60's. The drag aspect of it was VERY daring for the day. The "female" killer does not succeed and is killed in those final moments by the hero.
Can anyone PLEASE tell me what the title of this film was? If you know the year and the cast also, terrif. BUt I really need to know the title so that I can find a copy of it.
It was not your usual b&w "haunted mansion" flick. He/she was soooo haunting. Thanks!
It was a bit campy yet eerie. Murders are being committed, in a desolate old house. In the final climax, the it is revealed that the murderer is one of the female characters, who, as it turns out is actually a man in female drag.
The entire film you believed it WAS a woman. The drag was ASTOUNDINGLY convincing. The actor essaying the role was a genteel lady in look, manner, vocal. In the final showdown, this "woman" reveals to her intended final female victim that she is really a man and is, in a Norman Bates-y way, closing in on her with either a knife, or a pair of scissors. (It has not been revealed at all until this climactic finish that this is really a man in drag.)
I recall being amazed that this was actually cranked out during the conservative 50's/early 60's. The drag aspect of it was VERY daring for the day. The "female" killer does not succeed and is killed in those final moments by the hero.
Can anyone PLEASE tell me what the title of this film was? If you know the year and the cast also, terrif. BUt I really need to know the title so that I can find a copy of it.
It was not your usual b&w "haunted mansion" flick. He/she was soooo haunting. Thanks!
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