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what was wrong with Alice mentally or emotionally or psychologically?


I kept wondering this but the doctor who put her on a lie detector device and everyone else in this film who said anything about her mentally, emotionally, or psychologically never said what made her a murdering psychopath.

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I have this movie on VHS and haven't seen it in years but ****SPOILER ALERT**** I didn't think she was the killer. Maybe I forgot how it ended, but I thought it was someone else.

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Alice wasn't the killer, but she did have some deep seated emotional issues. Much of it seemed to deal with fatherly-abandonment issues. First, her parents divorce. Her dad remarries and moves away. Then, the priest that's really close to the family refuses to grant her communion but does so for Karen. This act represents favoritism of one sister over the other. As a result, Alice was becoming much more detached from those close to her and reality. It sort of hints she might become completely unhinged at a later point in her life.

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