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7 February 1972 (Sweden) morePlot:
A man named Salem escapes from an insane asylum where he was confined for an axe-murder. Falsely convicted under a plea of "guilty due to insanity"... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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a killer with a rock-solid alibi; a clever, suspenseful, artfully-done horror movie more (12 total)Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Max von Sydow | ... | Salem |
 | Trevor Howard | ... | The Inspector |
 | Liv Ullmann | ... | Ester Jenks |
| Per Oscarsson | ... | Dr. Anton Jenks |
| Rupert Davies | ... | Mr. Clemens |
| Andrew Keir | ... | Dr. Kemp |
| Jim Kennedy | ... | Carl |
| Arthur Hewlett | ... | Pop |
| Hanne Bork | ... | Emmie |
| Gretchen Franklin | ... | Mrs. Hansen |
| Bjørn Watt-Boolsen | ... | Mr. Torens |
| Lotte Freddie | ... | Britt Torens |
| Erik Kühnau | ... | Police Doctor |
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A man is running away from a large brick building surrounded by a high wall. He's running across rocks and snow in his underwear and boots. He sneaks into a farmhouse and steals some odd items, and sneaks into another house where he kills a woman. It's not the last person he'll kill either; he's trying to frame someone, but why - and how is he getting away from the place that establishes his alibi?
This is a very good movie. As a horror movie, it doesn't have a very high body count, or much gore, and there's no on screen violence - it cuts away from that. Some horror movies benefit from that, some don't; this one doesn't need it. The locations: isolated locations surrounded by snowy fields are very nice to look at. Acting is very good, as is the musical score by Mancini.
Definitely deserves to be better-known. I'm surprised some critics didn't like it. Some didn't like that the movie gives some things away early on that could have been withheld. I don't agree; not every movie that has secrets needs to save them for a big reveal at the end. Others felt that the characters' motivations weren't established. I can only suppose they weren't listening to the dialog, because that was fully discussed.