In this stylish and atmospheric psychological thriller reminiscent of Henry James’s “Turn of the Screw”, a widowed English writer brings a young, glamorous new bride to his bleak, isolated home in rural Spain. She soon becomes obsessed with her 12-year old stepson, who she learns has just been expelled from school for mysterious offenses; while the boy enjoys, exploits, and feeds her increasing paranoia about him. That he is a brilliant and lonely child is obvious. But is he the victim of a neurotic woman’s overwrought imagination– in Shakespeare’s words, the innocent flower, or the serpent under it? Colette Giacobine gets electrocuted in her bathtub when she turns off the tap, which had been booby-trapped by her stepson!
What The Peeper Saw (1972) – babe electrocuted in Roman bath
