Alice, Sweet Alice

ALICE, SWEET ALICE is an excellent low-budget horror film from director Sole, whose impressive grasp of filmmaking technique and eye for the grotesque keeps the viewer on edge throughout the movie. Set in Paterson, New Jersey, in the early 1960s, the film focuses on a series of bizarre and horrible murders committed in and around the local Catholic church. Although all the evidence seems to point to sullen and alienated 12-year-old Alice (Sheppard), the true culprit is actually much less obvious. This is a truly unsettling film. Sole presents a society diseased by blind devotion, jealousy, repression, and guilt. In ALICE, SWEET ALICE the family unit seems hopelessl...