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and a yellow rain slicker. Suggesting an overt connection between performance and feminine monstrosity, the mask depicts an ornately made-up female face... By asserting such a strong and obvious link between female bodies and performance, this film attempts to cover over the extent to which masculine identity may also be dependent upon performance. The film continually asserts this association between female perversion and performance through its depictions of Alice's need to act up.
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by slitting her wrists while shooting the film's final sequence in the church. After a week of convalescing, Miller returned to the set and completed her scenes, though a bandage can be seen on her wrist in several sequences. Because of the repeated starts and stops, the production had to recurrently
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advertisement, and contacted her mother about the film, expressing his interest in her playing the role of young Karen. For her audition, Shields was required to mime as though she were being strangled to death. Sole recalled that
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Catherine's apartment building. Mr. Alphonso wakes up screaming, as Alice had mischievously placed a jar of cockroaches on him while he slept. Mr. Alphonso encounters Mrs. Tredoni in the staircase and mistakes her for Alice. When he shoves her against a wall, grabs her as she
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building, where several sequences were filmed. Exteriors of the church were shot at St. Michael's Parish in Newark and the First
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Catherine goes to visit Father Tom. He is not home but Mrs. Tredoni invites her in. She explains that when her own daughter died on the day of her First
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Alice is driven by her own out-of-control desires, including her jealousy of her sister and her desire for attention. The identity of the killer, who is later revealed to be Mrs. Tredoni, the deranged housekeeper for the beloved local priest, remains concealed by a costume: a plastic
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Dominick receives a hysterical phone call from someone claiming to be Annie's daughter Angela, saying that she has Karen's crucifix. Dominick agrees to meet her at an abandoned building. There, the figure stabs him before binding him with rope. Dominick sees that the killer is in fact Mrs. Tredoni,
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Mrs. Tredoni rushes to the church, where the police are stationed. Spina arrives too late to save Mr. Alphonso. During Mass, Father Tom denies Mrs. Tredoni communion. She stabs the priest in the throat as the police rush in. While Father Tom bleeds to death, Alice walks out of the church with Mrs.
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similarly criticized the film's violence as "a little too much after awhile," but conceded that the "script has enough imagination and the direction enough insight to make it passable fare as far as these kind of films go." The film's depiction of Catholicism in an unfavorable light also drew ire
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s Michael Blowen similarly deemed the film a "gross vulgarity of an exploitation picture begins as a slick, glossy thriller gradually degenerates into a bloody mess... Sole employs craftsmanlike camerawork and swift editing in an attempt to gloss over the inconsistent script, but this film's
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Sole, at the time an inexperienced filmmaker, did not have a casting director to cast the film, and instead would approach various stage actors about playing the parts. "I didn't have a working knowledge of what an actor does," Sole recalled, so I started going to a lot of theater." Sole would
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home and cleared his life savings. "My family was really supportive," he recalled, "and my mother cooked for the crew, my neighbors chipped in; everyone was just so kind and supportive of me that we eventually got it made." In addition to Paterson, some photography took place in the city of
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in particular, Sole claimed to have not seen Argento's work at the time. Nonetheless, the film's incorporation of subtle dark humor and its unsympathetic portrayal of religion—both motifs of giallo thrillers—led to the film's reputation as the most "gialloesque" American film in history.
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echoed Canby's sentiment, awarding the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and writing that it "has qualities that take it out of the usual run of sanguinary homicidal horror movies, an attention given to dialogue, to authenticity of setting and to revelatory and atmospheric touches."
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perpetrated by children who are emotionally neglected by their parents. King suggests that the title character of Alice is ostracized by her mother and aunt, and lacking attention from her absent father, who only returns after Karen's murder. King elaborates on Alice's performativity:
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her. Annie is attacked by a masked figure. At the hospital, she claims that Alice tried to kill her. Alice is detained and takes a lie detector test, insisting Karen is the one that attacked Annie, but Alice is still sent to a psychiatric institution for evaluation.
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passageways." Despite this, Bowen asserts that the film is not "exactly an indictment of the church," but rather a "febrile portrait... of how society enables dysfunction on multiple fronts, from the domestic to the religious to the psychiatric."
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and religious institutions to be in direct confluence with the motives of its villain, Mrs. Tredoni, whose ultimate goal is to "punish" the sinning members of her parish; this has resulted in some claiming the film to be overtly "anti-Catholic".
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Sheppard, then a college student, as 12-year-old Alice, the protagonist suspected of her sister's murder. At the time of being cast, Sheppard was 18 years old, and had been discovered by Sole while working as a dancer in stage productions at
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arrives and tells Catherine that Dom has died. During Dominick's autopsy, the pathologist finds Karen's crucifix in his mouth, and Alice is eliminated as a suspect. Father Tom and Catherine go get Alice from the institution.
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thrown around the room (which eventually ended up getting waved with later DVD releases, as it was discovered the cat grabbing shot was a camera angle trick and that a stuffed toy kitten was used for the tossing shots).
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praised it as "an excellent low-budget horror film from director Sole, whose impressive grasp of filmmaking technique and eye for the grotesque keeps the viewer on edge throughout the movie." Ed Gonzalez of
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as a gift. A jealous Alice puts on a Halloween mask, frightening Father Tom's housekeeper, Mrs. Tredoni. Alice steals Karen's porcelain doll, scares her, and threatens her if she tells anyone.
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praised the film for constructing "a running commentary on the themes of Alfred Hitchcock: against a carefully evoked background of Catholicism emerge twin themes of repression and guilt."
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as "stark and shocking," and noted for their use of "powerful imagery" correlating with the film's religious overtones. Muir views the film as a precursor to such films as
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hire new cameramen; Sole estimated that a total of six different cameramen worked on the film. The total number of shooting days was around 20, as estimated by Sole.
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versions of the film released in the 1980s feature a truncated 98-minute cut of the film, such as a release by Celebrity Home Entertainment in 1987.
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nightmare." Despite this, he conceded: "Linda is an excellent actor; they all are."
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awarded the film a mixed 2 out of 4 stars, calling it " OK murder mystery."
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Tredoni's shopping bag, and places the bloodstained butcher knife into it,
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was the film's original title), looking like a parade of aggressive
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implying that she will resume Mrs. Tredoni's killing spree someday
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735:Sole was inspired to make the film after seeing
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2866:"Tomaselli to Helm 'Alice, Sweet Alice' Remake"
950:after Sole was put in contact with him through
875:Approximately 90% of the film was shot using a
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2597:(VHS). Celebrity Home Entertainment. 1987 .
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3255:. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland.
3231:. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland.
3078:. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland.
3040:. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland.
3000:. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland.
2719:"Alice, Sweet Alice - Review - AllMovie"
2379:"'Sweet Alice' Bloody Bath, But Not Bad"
2288:"Alice, Sweet Alice trade advertisement"
2268:"Alice, Sweet Alice trade advertisement"
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2485:"Gore Runneth Over in 'Sweet Alice'"
2011:Chadwick, Bruce (November 7, 1976).
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2464:"'Holy Terror': Churchyard chiller"
2462:Leogrande, Ernest (April 6, 1981).
2412:"Horror is here with 'Sweet Alice'"
2188:Malcolm, Derek (November 4, 1977).
1509:from the original on August 5, 2019
973:Chicago International Film Festival
967:The film premiered under the title
885:Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works
753:makes several visual references to
636:logos. Religion is not a refuge in
545:Catholic iconography is a frequent
496:Tom Signorelli as Detective Brennan
305:Chicago International Film Festival
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2548:"'Holy Terror' Is Wholly Terrible"
2527:"'Sweet Alice' Bloody But Not Bad"
2377:Ruth, Daniel (November 21, 1977).
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3156:Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide
2837:Barone, Matt (October 23, 2017).
2774:"Film Review: Alice, Sweet Alice"
2504:Blowen, Michael (July 15, 1978).
1151:from reviewers: Tom McElfresh of
1017:. Allied Artists' revised title,
520:Ted Tinling as Detective Cranston
3179:. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts.
3134:. New York: Three Rivers Press.
2691:"Alice, Sweet Alice (Communion)"
2546:McElfresh, Tom (April 6, 1981).
2506:"'Sweet Alice' all too familiar"
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2190:"Without benefit of clergy"
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183:Release date
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105:Linda Miller
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3207:Arrow Films
2976:October 28,
2966:ihorror.com
2702:October 20,
2417:The Gazette
2398:Maltin 2015
1774:Arrow Films
1295:Pete Walker
1213:Arrow Films
1068:US Magazine
1063:Roger Ebert
1048:Holy Terror
1043:Pretty Baby
981:book tie-in
952:Technicolor
940:(1975) and
706:Development
616:Virgin Mary
604:iconography
555:Catholicism
537:Catholicism
381:(franchise)
368:. In 1996,
339:video nasty
337:during the
330:Pretty Baby
325:Louis Malle
321:Holy Terror
257:Alfred Sole
210:108 minutes
90:Alfred Sole
81:Produced by
73:Alfred Sole
58:Alfred Sole
54:Directed by
3371:1976 films
3365:Categories
2989:Work cited
2850:August 20,
2825:Stine 2015
2080:Smith 2019
2068:Smith 2019
1893:Smith 2019
1881:Smith 2019
1818:Smith 2019
1617:Smith 2019
1605:Hogan 2010
1593:Hogan 2010
1551:August 18,
1374:References
1320:magazine.
1175:bootlegged
1165:Home media
701:Production
608:crucifixes
571:Deep Sleep
567:adult film
473:Jane Lowry
374:Wes Craven
269:New Jersey
194:1976-11-15
159:Production
135:Chuck Hall
3121:219640591
1581:King 2007
1566:King 2007
1513:August 5,
1483:King 2007
1447:Muir 2007
1300:In 2005,
1236:. On the
1234:cult film
1184:In 1997,
1007:Communion
997:Communion
969:Communion
898:John Ryle
861:John Ryle
730:architect
630:Communion
575:obscenity
372:inspired
309:Communion
248:Communion
234:$ 350,000
161:companies
140:Edited by
46:Communion
3332:AllMovie
3249:(2007).
3152:(2015).
2930:Fangoria
2806:. London
2804:Time Out
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