Directed by Alastair Reid
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
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Teenager Linda Hayden comes home from school to find mum dead in the bathtub from a suicide. An old boyfriend takes her into his wealthy home, where she proceeds to seduce every member of the family. She has recurring nightmares of discovering the body and has a phobia of water. As family life gradually deteriorates, you have to wonder why they didn't send her to a psychiatrist. It would be too easy to write this off as exploitative melodrama, as there does seem to be more at work here: the dreams, the underlying psychosis, the fractured family dynamics; it's not Hitchcock, but it shares similar themes.
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