- Director
- Ovidio G. Assonitis
- Year
- 1981
- Country
- USA, Italy
- Runtime
- 93 min
Also released as
- There Was a Little Girl
- And When She Was Bad
- Flesh and the Beast
- Hullujenhuone
- Madhouse
- Madhouse - Party des Schreckens
- Scared to Death
- A Casa da Escuridão
- Жила-была девочка
- Плоть и чудовище
- Напуганый до смерти
Filed under
Madhouse
A deaf teacher, a disfigured twin and a rottweiler. Shot in Savannah and better made than most of the list.
Better made than almost anything else on the prosecuted list, and almost nobody has seen it.
Julia teaches at a school for deaf children. Her twin sister, disfigured by disease and institutionalised, escapes before their shared birthday, accompanied by a rottweiler.
Ovidio Assonitis shot it in Savannah and the location does most of the work: humid, green, decaying architecture, filmed with real coverage and a proper crew. The set piece in the empty school building is well staged.
There is a birthday dinner in the last act that is the strangest thing in the film and it is played completely straight.
Successfully prosecuted. Known under at least four titles. Passed 18 uncut in 2004.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · successfully prosecuted
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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