A young girl (Susan Gordon, looking like a pubescent Joey Heatherton) is released from a mental institution into the care of her father (Don Ameche) and stepmother (Martha Hyer). The girl went into shock over the death of her mother (Zsa Zsa Gabor) who died in a fire but who she believes was murdered. Depending on your point of view, either a horror film or a thriller but inept on every level either way. Poor Susan Gordon is so incompetent that I began to have a perverse sympathy for her. After all, she was put in the picture by her father Bert I. Gordon, the film's producer/director, surely some form of child abuse. One can forgive the poor child's lack of ability but can one forgive Wendell Corey in a cringe inducing cameo or Maxwell Reed whose death scene has you smirking? The lovely Martha Hyer (who passed away recently) is the only one who appears not to realize she's in a stinker and tries (she fails) to give a performance. It's one of those films so amateurish in its execution that one watches it with a sort of fascination, unable to tear your eyes away. Among the others in the cast: Signe Hasso and Anna Lee.
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