Picture Mommy Dead

Picture Mommy Dead

See terror catch fire!

1966 · 82 min · ★ 5.7 · Horror, Thriller

Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by his dead wife. Susan is still haunted by her mother's memory, and her step-mother is conspiring with her lover to get the troubled girl to lead them to her mother's missing diamond necklace.

Directed by Bert I. Gordon · Written by Robert Sherman

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