Maniac (1963)

After his daughter (Liliane Brousse) is brutally raped, her father gets his revenge by killing her attacker with an acetylene torch. He is declared insane and sent to a mental asylum and it would seem to end there. But several years later, when an American painter (Kerwin Mathews) comes to stay at the inn run by the wife (Nadia Gray, LA DOLCE VITA) and daughter, both of whom are attracted to him, of the incarcerated madman, it becomes clear that the past is far from over. This Hammer production directed by Michael Carreras is a top notch psychological thriller. Beautifully filmed is B&W "MegaScope" in the Camargue district of southern France by Wilkie Cooper (7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD), the film has a beautifully crafted screenplay by Jimmy Sangster that keeps you guessing till the very end with a twist you can't possibly see coming, than -bam- another twist and yet a third twist to finish off the finale. If you like mystery thrillers, you can't miss this one! The score is by Stanley Black. With Donald Houston and George Pastell.