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''Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?'' (released in the U.S. as ''[[MarketBasedTitle Who Slew Auntie Roo?]]'') is a 1972 British horror film directed by Creator/CurtisHarrington and starring Creator/ShelleyWinters in the title role, along with Creator/RalphRichardson, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks, Judy Cornwell, Michael Gothard, Hugh Griffith, and Lionel Jeffries.
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''Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?'' (released in the U.S. as ''[[MarketBasedTitle Who Slew Auntie Roo?]]'') is a 1972 British horror film directed by Creator/CurtisHarrington and starring Creator/ShelleyWinters in the title role, along with Creator/RalphRichardson, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks, Judy Cornwell, Creator/JudyCornwell, Michael Gothard, Hugh Griffith, and Lionel Jeffries.
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* PhonyPsychic: Mr. Benton (Creator/RalphRichardson) is a "medium" who conspires with butler Albie (Michael Gothard) and his wife Clarine (Judy Cornwell) to fake visitations from Katharine. Clarine stands in Katharine's nursery, calling down the dumbwaiter shaft in a little girl voice, which completely fools Aunt Roo.
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* PhonyPsychic: Mr. Benton (Creator/RalphRichardson) is a "medium" who conspires with butler Albie (Michael Gothard) and his wife Clarine (Judy Cornwell) (Creator/JudyCornwell) to fake visitations from Katharine. Clarine stands in Katharine's nursery, calling down the dumbwaiter shaft in a little girl voice, which completely fools Aunt Roo.
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* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:Auntie Roo's grief-stricken mania never actually develops into something murderous that might justify Christopher's paranoia. She never harms or even so much as threatens the children. Her most violent act is pushing them into a closet ''whilst he was brandishing a knife at her'', and her last act is to subsequently '''cook a meal for them'''. Christopher proceeds to trick her into opening the door '''''by knowingly exploiting her grief''''', murder her '''''WITH ACTUAL GLEE''''', destroy her home, steal her heirlooms, and ride off into the sunset scot-free without repercussion or remorse. Which the narrator dryly proclaims a "Happily Ever After".]]
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Christopher. The title of the movie says it all; this is Roo's sympathetic story, about Roo's tragic life, and Roo's ignominious death. He's ultimately the villain.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Christopher. The title of the movie says it all; this is Roo's sympathetic story, about Roo's tragic life, and Roo's ignominious death. He's ultimately the villain.]]
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: In one of the final scenes of the movie, when Christopher brings firewood into the kitchen to place besides the open-flame stove, the establishing shot of him entering the room lingers long enough for everyone to see the mason jar on a counter in the foreground framed right next to him [[spoiler:and read the clear, legible, painted-on label of "paraffin".]]
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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Christopher's actions at the film's climax are abhorrent, but justifiable through the lens of his delusion. He is, after all, protecting his sister's very life. Straight after trapping Auntie Roo and setting the door on fire, he is presented evidence that he was wrong and that she genuinely meant only to treat them. Even his younger sister can see this, and points it out. He casually dismisses her and comments on how pretty the fire is. Then proceeds to garner sympathy from the adults by feigning trauma & claiming he was only even there to help. Actual supervillain origin story.]]
* LoonWithAHeartOfGold: Auntie Roo. [[spoiler:Never even subverted.]]
* LoonWithAHeartOfGold: Auntie Roo. [[spoiler:Never even subverted.]]
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* PerspectiveFlip: Despite multiple allusions to Literature/HanselAndGretel, the "witch" is genuinely the kindly charitable old dear that she's outwardly presented as, and never so much as threatens anyone. Meanwhile, we're told that the "Hansel" stand-in is a troublemaker at the start by the orphanage's owner, which turns out to not be the [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold false-flag]] one might expect. [[spoiler:The ending solidifies this in gruesome fashion; turns out the movie was a murder mystery all along, and the victim was the sympathetic main character.]]
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler:the [[DecoyProtagonist supposed-protagonist's]] actions at the film's climax, which retroactively flips the entire script on its head.]]
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Rosie "Aunt Roo" Forrest (Winters) is an American-born widow who lives at Forrest Grange, the English manor she inherited from her late husband, a famous magician. Each Christmas, she throws a party for the ten best-behaved children from the nearby Home for Orphaned and Destitute Children. One year, siblings Christopher (Lester) and Katy Coombs (Franks) arrive at her party. Aunt Roo becomes obsessed with Katy, who closely resembles her late daughter Katharine, and wants to adopt her. But Christopher is suspicious.
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Rosie "Aunt Roo" Forrest (Winters) is an American-born widow who lives at Forrest Grange, the English manor she inherited from her late husband, a famous magician. Each Christmas, she throws a party for the ten best-behaved children from the nearby Home for Orphaned and Destitute Children. One year, siblings Christopher (Lester) and Katy Coombs (Franks) arrive at her party. Aunt Roo becomes obsessed with Katy, who closely resembles her late dead daughter Katharine, and wants to adopt her. But Christopher is suspicious.
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''Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?'' (released in the U.S. as ''[[MarketBasedTitle Who Slew Auntie Roo?]]'') is a 1972 British horror film directed by Creator/CurtisHarrington and starring Creator/ShelleyWinters in the title role, along with Creator/RalphRichardson, Mark Lester, Judy Cornwell, Michael Gothard, Hugh Griffith, and Lionel Jeffries.
Rosie "Aunt Roo" Forrest (Winters) is an American-born widow who lives at Forrest Grange, the English manor she inherited from her late husband, a famous magician. Each Christmas, she throws a party for the ten best-behaved children from the nearby Home for Orphaned and Destitute Children. One year, siblings Christopher (Lester) and Katy Coombs (Chloe Franks) arrive at her party. Aunt Roo becomes obsessed with Katy, who closely resembles her deceased daughter Katharine, and wants to adopt her. But Christopher is suspicious.
Rosie "Aunt Roo" Forrest (Winters) is an American-born widow who lives at Forrest Grange, the English manor she inherited from her late husband, a famous magician. Each Christmas, she throws a party for the ten best-behaved children from the nearby Home for Orphaned and Destitute Children. One year, siblings Christopher (Lester) and Katy Coombs (Chloe Franks) arrive at her party. Aunt Roo becomes obsessed with Katy, who closely resembles her deceased daughter Katharine, and wants to adopt her. But Christopher is suspicious.
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''Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?'' (released in the U.S. as ''[[MarketBasedTitle Who Slew Auntie Roo?]]'') is a 1972 British horror film directed by Creator/CurtisHarrington and starring Creator/ShelleyWinters in the title role, along with Creator/RalphRichardson, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks, Judy Cornwell, Michael Gothard, Hugh Griffith, and Lionel Jeffries.
Rosie "Aunt Roo" Forrest (Winters) is an American-born widow who lives at Forrest Grange, the English manor she inherited from her late husband, a famous magician. Each Christmas, she throws a party for the ten best-behaved children from the nearby Home for Orphaned and Destitute Children. One year, siblings Christopher (Lester) and Katy Coombs(Chloe Franks) (Franks) arrive at her party. Aunt Roo becomes obsessed with Katy, who closely resembles her deceased late daughter Katharine, and wants to adopt her. But Christopher is suspicious.
Rosie "Aunt Roo" Forrest (Winters) is an American-born widow who lives at Forrest Grange, the English manor she inherited from her late husband, a famous magician. Each Christmas, she throws a party for the ten best-behaved children from the nearby Home for Orphaned and Destitute Children. One year, siblings Christopher (Lester) and Katy Coombs
