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Alice, Sweet Alice

1978, Movie, R, 108 mins

Alice, Sweet Alice: Review

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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 hopelessly corrupt, the Catholic church as fundamentally hypocritical, and the forces of law and order as ineffectual. The startling imagery combines religious icons, grotesque characters, and gruesome killings, in a visual style that effectively evokes Hitchcock and Polanski without blatantly stealing from either. Rereleased twice under different titles (probably to exploit the appearance of the preteen Shields, whose character is murdered in church just before her first Communion), ALICE, SWEET ALICE has had a spotty distribution history but is widely available on home video. Highly recommended. leave a comment
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