who appears to be in a fugue state, and holding a bloody hatchet. He chases her through the house and the two engage in a physical fight. She strikes him several times with the hatchet, but he manages to overpower her and strangle her to death. In voiceover narration, O'Malley recounts his discovery of diaries from each of the family members, which reveal that Mary committed all the murders Vicki had been accused of, including the murder of the two boys that warranted her psychiatric confinement. Meanwhile, Mary departs Woodmire Lake in a taxi, and murders the cab driver with a hatchet. Cast Production Conception The screenplay for A Night to Dismember was written by Judith J. Kushner, and the film conceived by Wishman in the wake of the success of slasher films such as Halloween. In order to secure financing, Wishman made a trailer for the film using stock footage and snippets shot specifically for advertising. A financer from Chicago agreed to fund the production based on Wishman's trailer, giving her what she described as "a hefty deposit to finish the film." Casting and filming Filming took place in New York in 1979, with many of the locations being the private residences of Wishman and her friends and family. Portions of exterior filming (such as the forest scenes, and the sequence in which the two boys are murdered in the graveyard) in Westchester County. Additional exterior footage was shot outside Wishman's apartment in Queens along the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway, while rooms in Wishman's apartment were used to film several interior scenes. The final scene in which Mary's character is picked up by a taxi was shot in a rural area on Long Island. According to Wishman, she paid the taxi driver $25 to shoot footage of the car's advertisement that read "Get it done! America." Some of the cast members were friends or family of Wishman; Miriam Meth, who portrayed Vicki's mother, was Wishman's cousin, who later worked as a makeup artist on Days of Our Lives. Miriam's house was used as a filming location as well, with her own character's death sequence being filmed in her garage. According to Wishman, pornographic actress Samantha Fox was cast as Vicki after sending a headshot and "writing really nice things" in a letter addressed to Wishman. Louis Birdi, an editor who had worked with Wishman on previous film projects, appears as a