A young woman with an abnormal fear of men is left alone by her sister in their apartment for a week, and her descent into madness is chillingly portrayed.
Carol and Helen Ledoux are two Belgian sisters who live in a London apartment. Carol resents her elder sister having an affair with a married man, Michael, and her resentment, fuelled by her own neuroses about sex, starts to trigger a psychological collapse. When Helen and Michael go away to Italy for a few days, Carol is left alone and starts to suffer from bizarre hallucinations.
When she is sent home from the beauty clinic where she works, Carol ends up trapped and isolated in a world of her own imagination. When her anxious boyfriend turns up, she kills him and puts the body in her bath.
Later, her landlord appears, demanding his rent. He gets much more than he bargained for...
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, James Villiers, Patrick Wymark, Yvonne Furneaux,
Release date: 1965
