Homicidal

1961

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 68% · 11 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 4223 4.2K

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Plot summary

A woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We soon find out Emily is the caretaker of a wheelchair-bound mute named Helga, who was the childhood guardian of a pair of siblings: Miriam Webster and her half-brother, Warren, who is about to inherit the estate of their late father. Who is the mysterious Emily and what are her intentions?

Director

William Castle Photo
William Castle

Top cast

Richard Rust Photo
Richard Rust as Jim Nesbitt
Hope Summers Photo
Hope Summers as Mrs. Martha Adrims
Patricia Breslin Photo
Patricia Breslin as Miriam Webster
Joan Marshall Photo
Joan Marshall as Emily
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802.38 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 1
1.46 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by juliamacon 7 / 10

Good Psycho Rip Off

Homicidal is one of the most blatant rip offs of Psycho you're likely to see, but it has such a good time trying to hide that fact and go in its own direction that you can't help but love it. It's about a young woman who might have a little killing problem and a mysterious brother who makes life even more difficult for her.William Castle might not be as masterful with the suspense as Hitchcock, but he knows how to spin an entertaining story.
Reviewed by bobvend 7 / 10

There's something not quite right about Warren

I just had my first viewing of HOMICIDAL, having already heard that it "steals shamelessly from PSYCHO". Well it does do that, but it's also a surprisingly effective chiller that manages to set out on its own course and strikes up enough originality to make it well worth watching. The acting is mostly competent, given the film's era and genre.But I kept wondering all the while why such an unattractive actor was cast to play the role of Warren. Certainly, I thought, they could have found a trainload of reasonably handsome men to cast in this role(?) Of course, this odd point becomes somewhat cleared up in the end...that is, if the viewer is able to navigate the rather complicated (and rapid) unraveling of the family's dark history. I expect I'll have to view it again to make sense of it. But HOMICIDAL is cheesy campy fun of the best kind, so it will be a guilty pleasure to have a second stab at it.
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