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Twisted Nerve is a 1968 British psychological thriller film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Billie Whitelaw and Frank Finlay. The film follows a disturbed young man, Martin, who pretends, under the name of Georgie, to be intellectually impaired in order to be near Susan—a girl with whom he has ...
Twisted Nerve: Directed by Roy Boulting. With Hywel Bennett, Russell Napier, Hayley Mills, Robin Parkinson. A troubled man becomes infatuated with a beautiful young woman and uses a childlike alter-ego to get close to her.
- (2.4K)
- Drama, Thriller
- Roy Boulting
- 1969-02-12
Oct 23, 2022 · Umbrella Entertainment proudly presents the long-awaited WORLD PREMIERE BLU-RAY RELEASE of the iconic psychological chiller TWISTED NERVE (1968). Order directly from the Umbrella Entertainment...
- 3 min
- 16.8K
- Umbrella Entertainment
The film opens with Martin Durney playing catch with his young mentally challenged brother, Pete, (whom suffers from Down Syndrome) at a special school in London. Martin is the only thread to Pete's family life; their father died years before and their mother has a new life with a new husband.
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie.
Twisted Nerve is a 1968 British psychological thriller film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Billie Whitelaw and Frank Finlay.
Martin is a troubled young man. With a mother who insists on treating him like a child, a stepfather who can't wait to see the back of him, and a mongoliod brother shut away in an institution, is it any wonder he retreats into an alternate personality...that of six year old Georgie? It is...