Later, Amelia is preparing dinner, using a carving knife. As Amelia leaves the room, we see that the Zuni fetish doll's golden chain has somehow fallen off. Amelia struggles to justify her independence and cancels their plans for the evening by claiming she has a date. As Amelia makes a call to her mother we learn that she suffers from her mother's overbearing behavior. A scroll comes with the doll, claiming that the doll contains the actual spirit of a Zuni hunter named "He Who Kills", and that the gold chain adorning the doll keeps the spirit trapped within. She returns home after a fateful shopping spree carrying a package containing a wooden fetish doll, crafted in the form of a misshapen aboriginal warrior equipped with pointy, sharp teeth and a spear. The other two are based on stories by Matheson as well, but their screenplays were written by someone else.Īmelia lives alone in a high-rise apartment building. "Amelia" is based on his 1969 short story, "Prey". It was also the only film of the three whose script was written by the original author of the story, Richard Matheson. "Amelia" was filmed like a one-woman play, with Karen Black as the only actor. The recent death of the woman's father unhinged her further, and the "murder" was actually a form of suicide. Ramsey reveals, as the family doctor, that "Therese" and "Millicent" are the same person Therese suffered from multiple personality disorder brought on by the fact that "Therese" slept with her father and subsequently killed her mother - and "Millicent" was an alternative personality with a repressed sexuality to cope with the horror of her actions. Ramsey enters the house, he finds Therese dead on her bedroom floor with the talisman next to her and Millicent nowhere to be found. Ramsey, explaining that she has determined that Therese is evil and that she needs to stop her even if that means losing her own life, and readily plants a voodoo talisman in a bed to kill her. Soon after her conversation with Thomas, Millicent writes a letter to Dr. Later on the same day Millicent opens the door for Thomas, one of Therese's lovers, and questions him about the nature of some unspecified immoral event that happened during Thomas and Millicent's sexual relationship. Ramsey arrives one day to the mansion to speak with Therese, who insinuates to Ramsey and furiously throws him out of the house when he refuses her advances. Ramsey (Millicent's friend and family therapist) that her sister has engaged in sex with their father and is holding her captive inside the family mansion, while gloating to Millicent about her deeds. Millicent is a repressed, unattractive and prudish brunette while her twin sister Therese, a worldly, seductive, and free-spirited blonde. This tale of sibling rivalry focuses on a pair of twin sisters, played by Karen Black. There is a knock at the door, and another young handsome student (played in a bit role by Gregory Harrison) in need of a tutor enters. Julie adds the newspaper story to a scrapbook of articles depicting students who met similar fates. Julie drags him into the darkroom where she sets fire to the offending photographs.Ĭhad's death is later reported in local media as a house fire. I always get bored after a while." Chad realizes that Julie has poisoned his drink, and then he collapses. "Did you really think that dull, little mind of yours could possibly have conceived any of the rather dramatic experiences we've shared? Why do you think you suddenly had the overwhelming desire to see what I looked like under 'all those clothes?' Don't feel bad. After several weeks of this, Julie announces, "The game is over." She reveals that it was actually she who had manipulated Chad in an elaborate role play of her own design. Chad blackmails Julie into submitting to his romantic attentions.
She is furious and threatens to call the police. He then pulls up to her house as she begins to regain consciousness, saying that she had fallen asleep during the movie.Īfter developing the photographs in his darkroom, Chad shows the pictures to Julie. After checking them in as husband and wife, he photographs her in a variety of sexually provocative positions. She initially refuses, but later accepts the offer.ĭuring the date at a drive-in theater, Chad spikes Julie's drink, rendering her unconscious, and drives her to a motel. The next day, he asks Julie out on a date. Later that evening, when Julie is undressing in her room, Chad watches her through a window. Chad reveals his fantasies to his friend Eddie Nells ( Jim Storm), but Eddie discourages him from becoming romantically involved with teachers. During one class, Chad is distracted by Julie's thigh as she sits on her desk, and he daydreams about her. Chad Rogers (Robert Burton) is a college student with a crush on his English teacher, Julie Eldridge ( Karen Black).
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