Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?

Once again director Curtis Harrington brings in Shelley Winters to play a crazed woman in this retelling of the story of Hansel and Gretel. She is the generous patron to an orphanage and during one of her annual Christmas party's takes a liking to a young girl and her brother, because the girl reminds her of her dead daughter. To be honest, even as she was supposed to be getting creepier and creepier, I maintained a healthy level of sympathy for the woman, despite the literal skeleton's in her closet. Mark Lester and Chloe Franks are almost angelic presences as the children, and they both turn in good peroformances.