Being a sweet kind of girl, she takes pity on this attractive young man, who seems simple but harmless. Susan works in a library, innocently climbing ladders to fetch books for young boys, who are busy looking up her skirt. We know this because he’s already shown himself to be in full control of his faculties, yet when he meets Susan (Mills), he calls himself “Georgie” and acts like he’s got learning difficulties. Martin (Bennett) is a disturbed young man. Oh yeah? So why did you make a film about it, then? The cast list is hugely impressive – Hywell Bennett, Hayley Mills, Frank Finlay, Barry Foster, Billie Whitelaw, Timothy West – all top-notch 60s talent.īut having all this talent doesn’t really help when the film starts with a hastily tacked-on warning at the beginning, which was added due to “the controversy”: “There is no established scientific connection between mongolism and psychotic criminal behaviour.” But the lack of showings on late night television gives the wrong impression – this isn’t some cheapo B-movie stuffed with forgotten thesps. Courting controversy from the off with its determinably ill-informed views about mental disability made sure that it was practically buried on release, and has never really seen the late of day since. Now, if I can just get that bloody whistling out of my head long enough to put together some coherent sentences…Įven amongst its similarly themed and rarely-seen peers (little-known “pretty boy psycho murderer” epics like Endless Night, The Road Builder, or Straight On Till Morning), Twisted Nerve is a shadowy, mysterious rarity. So it’s fair to say that the theme song is far, far more well known than the film which spawned it. Of course, you’re supposed to whistleit, but when the film’s title fits in with the tune so well you can’t fail to join in, much like when you hear the theme to Coronation Street (“Co-o-o-ron-ationsteet, Co-o-o-ron-ationstreet” No? Just me, then).īernard Hermann’s iconic score for this late 60s shocker got a very public airing in the noughties, thanks to Quentin Tarantino getting Daryl Hanna’s character to whistle it as she makes her way through the hospital in Kill Bill. Yes, Twisted Nerve is a one-off, a horror film with its own sing-along theme tune. All together now! “Twist-ed, Twisted Nerve, Twist-ed, Twisted Nerve… Twist-ed, Twisted Nerve, Twist-ed, Twisted Nerve… Twisted, Twisted, Twisted Nerve…”
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