Thursday, January 19, 2012

Recently revisited


 And highly recommended.

4 comments:

Norma said...

Have you seen "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane"? Jodie Foster, Michael Douglas...?

ilduce said...

Norma, YES! Equally creepy and entertaining! But it was Martin Sheen.

I saw it on TV at a very young age and it freaked me out. (It also made me realize that I too wanted a place of my own!)

Over the years I've had it confused with another TV movie where a girl's grandmother dies while she's visiting and she doesn't tell anyone but buries the grandmother herself. I wish I coild remember the name of the other film.

Frank DeLorca said...

It sounds like the plot of "Our Mother's House" but that was a 1967 British theatrical film about three kids who bury their mother in the garden and pretend she's still alive so they can stay together. It was with Mark Lester, Pamela Franklin & Dirk Bogarde. Could that be what you're thinking of?

ilduce said...

Thanks Frank, I've seen that film but it's not the one I'm thinking of. The film I'm remembering was American and had the feel of an after school special. Two odd details stand out. The Grandmother would brush her teeth with orange slices to refresh them and when the little girl buried her she cut up photographs and decorated the grave with them.