Lovely Susan Strasberg and Faith Domergue are sisters. Susan loses a husband in an auto accident and Faith is loaded and consoles her. Insanity had formerly affected Faith - having had a long stay in a sanatorium and now Susan sees things like the burned, unrecognizable face of her husband. The mask used is incredibly inept and reminiscent of what was used in I was a Teenage Frankenstein and How to Make a Monster. No coincidence either since the film editing was done by none other than Herbert Strock, the director of both of those films! This is a pretty cheap film with a TV movie atmosphere. It seems to have also suffered from a bunch of title changes. One can find the video titles Psycho Sisters and The Sibling(the one I had)which are indeed the very same film as So Evil, My Sister. The video box I have shows a woman's face with red, demonic eyes. Don't fall for that - nothing supernatural at all in this one except some bizarre, psychedelic dream/nightmare sequences. The plot is pretty pedestrian and you will figure out what is going on in due time, but that and the inane mask notwithstanding, I liked the film in a bad is good way. The acting is decent overall and there are some bizarre things that should prove interesting. Faith has a handyman acquaintance from the asylum named Woody who axed his mother to death. He is interesting if nothing else as he wields his ax throughout the film. Charlie's brother Sydney Chaplin appears in the film as well. A fast 80 minutes at the very least.
Review of So Evil, My Sister
