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Title: DEAR OLD DADDY
Review: This 1971 British "horror" film is certainly one of the most befuddling and confusing ones I've seen. Horror vet Michael Gough (BATMAN, KONGA, HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM) stars as a nasty abusive father and husband, and dotes only on his successful son Rupert. Mother Edith and daughter Jane conspire to kill dear old dad to get him out of their lives. They manage to do so when he goes off for a weekend of shooting at their cottage. But things go wrong when they return to the scene and find the body missing, or is it? The script by Olaf Pooley (who also plays the neighbor Reed) is so ambiguous, by the time the film's over, you don't know WHAT really happened. If it's an attempt to explain the decline into madness, Pooley isn't sharp enough to evince it. A real waste of time.
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