A surrealistic horror film about Reynolds, a compulsive collector of bizarre objects, and his wife, Stephenson, a former tap-dancer. She resents her husband for pulling her away from her dance lessons years earlier and obsessively tap dances around the house. She takes a lover, Paramor,
from whom she was separated at childhood. Two criminals plot to steal Reynolds' collection, but his elaborate guillotine burglar system is set off, and one of them loses a finger. When he eventually is tripped up and lands head first in the guillotine trap, he is decapitated. Reynolds, witnessing
in horror, suffers a fatal heart attack. Stephenson goes off with her childhood sweethe...
Released:
1972
Rated:
NR
Length:
92 mins