A Woman’s Torment
1977, dir. Roberta Findlay (as Robert W. Norman)
“An exceptional film! Equivalent of a hard-core Psycho!” - Screw
Don (Jeffrey Hurst) and his wife Frances (Crystal Sync) have been struggling to keep their marriage together after Frances’s mentally ill sister Karen (Tara Chung) has come to live with them. One day, when Karen hears of Don and Frances’s plans to have her committed to an asylum, she runs away and takes refuge in an empty house on a remote beach. As whatever little was already left of Karen’s sanity begins to slip away, she finds herself trapped in a downward spiral of violent delusions and growing bloodlust.
Overtly intended by filmmaker Roberta Findlay (Snuff) as a tribute to Roman Polanski’s Repulsion, A Woman’s Torment is a one-of-a-kind blend of melodrama, sex, and violence.
2K restoration.
Also available in its alternate ‘cool’ version!
Distribpix
United States
English
84 minutes
1.85:1
35mm-to-DCP