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Can anyone help?

posted 15 years ago by ascott-30
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I've seen this movie and Strait Jacket with Joan Crawford.

I'm wondering if anyone knows the name of a third movie, part of which I saw as a kid. I think it was made in the late '60s or early '70s. This one likewise was about a serial killer who either was an axe-murderer or used an axe for just one particular murder. In the scene I saw, a woman in a wheelchair enters at one end of either a barn or an enclosed wooden bridge (can't remember exactly what it was). The camera then shows the wheelchair rolling out of the other end with her headless body in it.

Has anyone else here ever seen a movie with a scene like that in it? If so, do you know the name of that movie?

[–] ashtontylo 12 years ago

Three years later..Could it be "Hush,hush sweet Charlotte"?

[–] Geechee 12 years ago

No. Hush Hush doesn't have that scene in it.
"If I don't suit chu, you kin cut mah thoat!"

[–] 12 years ago

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[–] susanemccool 9 years ago

If you're still seeking an answer, I recommend you post your question on Message Boards/I Need to Know.

You may need to wait 30 minutes or so for the answer. ; )

[–] mr_mcbeevee 9 years ago

I think the name of the movie you are looking for is Dear Dead Delilah. It was Agnes Moorehead's final film. She played a nasty, wheelchair-bound matriarch of an old Southern family, with a house full of greedy relatives out to rob her of her fortune. It's been decades since I last watched it, but I think her character died just as you described: decapitated by an axe murderer when she rolled her wheelchair to the family crypt for a late night visit with her dearly departed. The movie was written and directed by horror novelist John Farris (most famous for The Fury) in 1972, and shot on location in Nashville. Will Geer (Grandpa Walton) was also in the movie.