bappamtv

A Taste of Evil

A Taste of Evil

1971TV Movie⏱️ 1h 13mNot Rated
HorrorThriller
6.3
IMDB Rating
827 votes

On her way home to California from a stay at a Swiss mental institution after a traumatic rape seven years earlier, twenty-year-old Susan Wilcox realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane. Written by Jimmy Sa...

Director
John Llewellyn Moxey
Writers
N/A
Stars
Barbara Stanwyck, Barbara Parkins, Roddy McDowall
Release Date
October 12, 1971
Language
English
Country
United States
💬 27
Reviews
📋 1.9K
Watchlists
📽️ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck
as Miriam Jennings
Barbara Parkins
Barbara Parkins
as Susan
Roddy McDowall
Roddy McDowall
as Dr. Lomas
William Windom
William Windom
as Harold Jennings
Arthur O'Connell
Arthur O'Connell
as John
Bing Russell
Bing Russell
as Sheriff
👤
Dawn Frame
as Young Susan
👤
Kathryn Janssen
as Party Guest
Leoda Richards
Leoda Richards
as Party Guest

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Mono
Color
Color
Filming Location
Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production
Aaron Spelling Productions, American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

🏷️ Keywords

psychotronic filmstrong female characterscreaming girlreturn homethin woman

🎯 Categories

HorrorThriller

⭐ Featured Review

Very Rare Made For T.V. Gem 1971
by Phantom Moonhead2000-06-01

"I was finally lucky enough to find an excellent copy of this film. I fell asleep watching this movie late one night and woke up assuming I would one day get the opportunity to see it again. Sure,they will show it again,it was a great movie. Eleven years later I found it. Very few people seem to know about this film,it is indeed one of the hardest to find. It was produced by Aaron Spelling,back when he was young and still had some good ideas. Barbra Stanwyck and Roddy McDowell star in this chilling sleeper about a woman who return home to a country estate after spending years in a mental instit..."

💡 Did You Know?

Writer Jimmy Sangster says on the audio commentary for the Anchor Bay DVD of The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) that producer Aaron Spelling thought "A Taste of Evil" was awfully similar to the earlier Sangster-scripted Scream of Fear (1961), a.k.a. "Scram of Fear". Sangster basically admitted that it was the same script, with characters and settings changed to American ones.

📖 Synopsis

On her way home to California from a stay at a Swiss mental institution after a traumatic rape seven years earlier, twenty-year-old Susan Wilcox realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane. Written by Jimmy Sa...