Jim Nesbitt

Homicidal (1961)

Actors: William Castle (producer), 'Snub' Pollard (actor), James Westerfield (actor), Edwin H. Bryant (editor), William Castle (director), Hugo Friedhofer (composer), William Castle (actor), Joseph Forte (actor), Wayne Fitzgerald (miscellaneous crew), Ralph Moody (actor), Hope Summers (actress), Glenn Corbett (actor), Richard Rust (actor), Dona Holloway (producer), Robb White (writer),

Plot: The story centers around a murderous scheme to collect a rich inheritance. The object of murder is Miriam Webster, who is to share in the inheritance with her half brother Warren, who lives with his childhood guardian Helga in the mansion where Warren and Mariam grew up. Confined to a wheelchair after recently suffering a stroke, Helga is cared for by her nurse Emily, a strange young woman who has formed a close bond with Warren.

Keywords: annulment, bellboy, bellhop, blood, childhood-trauma, curtain-call, decapitation, drugstore, florist, gender-bender
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: SPECIAL "FRIGHT BREAK" * There will be a special FRIGHT BREAK during the showing of "Homicidal." Can you heart stand the challenge when the clock starts the COUNTDOWN! A WORD OF WARNING! Please don't reveal the ending of this picture or your friends will kill you - IF THEY DON'T, I WILL! - William Castle THE PICTURE WITH A "FRIGHT BREAK!" The story of a psychotic killer!

Quotes:

Emily: If you do not leave this house in the next minute, I will kill you!

Alfred S. Adrims: Take this woman for your lawful weddded wife?::Jim Nesbitt: I guess so.

Karl Anderson: Is there any way to tell?::Doctor Jonas: [Distracted after a long pause] Hah? Tell what, Karl?::Karl Anderson: Well. If a person's homicidal?::Doctor Jonas: [giving him a prescription] There you are. No... That's what makes them so dangerous. They can change from being your friend into your murderer in a second's time!

Emily: [to Helga] If it wasn't for me you would've been dead by now.

Miriam Webster: I remember when we were kids, you took this doll away from me and I never saw it again.::Warren: You want it? Take it.

Prologue Host: We've been to Haunted Hills, and through Tinglers, and even Ghosts... but now we're going to meet a group of people who just happen to be... Homicidal.