BUTCHER BAKER NIGHTMARE MAKER-1981-Weird Aunt Cheryl (Susan Tyrrel) has an unhealthy obsession with her nephew Billy (Jimmy McNicol) (she probably killed his parents too). She's not too happy to learn that Billy is going to Denver on a college scholarship. On his birthday she tries to have sex with a TV repairman but when he rejects her she stabs him to death. Billy witnesses it but goes along with her attempted rape alibi. Investigating detective Joe Carlson (Bo Svenson) doesn't believe her. Even though Billy has a steady girlfriend Julie, Carlson thinks Billy is a "fag" and he and the TV repairman were having a lover's spat. Cheryl talks to a picture of Billy's father in a dark attic where there's a skeleton and a severed head then catches Billy and Julie having sex. Bo's assistant Sgt. Cook (Britt Leach) correctly believes Cheryl is the murderer (and the killer of Billy's parents) but Carlson is such a homophobic dick he refuses to believe it.
Cheryl drugs Billy so he blows the big basketball game and then freaks out, kills a neighbor and menaces Julie. Poor Sgt. Cook gets his hand chopped off before being killed. Billy finds out Cheryl is actually his mother but has to kill her anyway. In a stupid twist Carlson seems to want to blame the killings on Billy and his high school coach (who admitted earlier he was gay) but Billy shoots and kills the cop with his own gun. A crawl says Billy was tried for murder but acquitted.
This whacked out barely released thriller was directed by William Asher, who in the 1960's made the AIP beach movies and produced the TV sit-com BEWITCHED (he was married to Elizabeth Montgomery, the show's star at the time).
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