Every Christmas Eve eccentric American Auntie Roo invites some children from the local orphanage to stay at her large English country mansion. She's a real oddball, she keeps the decomposed corpse of her dead daughter in the child's bedroom and hosts (fake) seances to contact her. She also kidnaps one young orphan girl because of the similarity to her daughter. The girl's brother comes to the rescue. The movie is a good example of horror meets fairy tale, in this instance it is "Hansel and Gretel" The cast is very good, Hollywood starlet Shelley Winters gives a fine performance as Roo but all of the parts are played well. I have this on an old British VHS tape and it has a rated 18 sticker on it, seems a bit harsh. Apart from two scenes, the first with the aforementioned corpse plus a creepy segment involving some stage magician's props, the movie is not scary. It is a good looking film, ideal for Festive Season late night viewing, but it shouldn't keep you awake, despite what the video tagline says! AKA Who Slew Auntie Roo?
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