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"What he saw is what he did.". Oliver! star Mark Lester undertook a change of pace - and then some - with this uncomfortable, Bad Seed-like shocker. He plays Marcus, the preteen son of a recently-remarried, well-to-do writer, whose first wife (Marcus's mother) died a mysterious death. Marcus simultaneously resents his stepmother and feels erotically drawn to her; in desperation, he quickly and aggressively drives her to the point of a psychotic breakdown. He then quietly confesses his act of matricide to the stepmom and implores her to off her husband and abscond with the insurance monies.
Movie rating: 5.8 / 10 (1703)
Directed by: James Kelley - Trevor Preston - Andrea Bianchi - Erich Krohnke
Writer credits: Andrea Bianchi - Erich Kröhnke
Cast: Mark Lester - Britt Ekland - Hardy Krüger - Lilli Palmer - Harry Andrews
AKA: Night Child, Night Hair Child, Diabólica malicia, Child of the Night
