The Killing of Sister George (1968)
Directed by Robert Aldrich
When June Buckridge arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice 'Childie' McNaught realizes that things are going to change. For June is referring to her character 'Sister George', a lovable nurse she portrays in a popular daytime serial. To make matters worse, the widowed executive at the BBC responsible for the decision to kill off Sister George - Mercy Croft is also a predatory lesbian who is after Childie and will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
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Strongly influenced by Les Biches (1968), it’s as potentially as tragic as The Killing of Sister George (1968) and The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972).
By the same token, The Duke of Burgundy is The Killing of Sister George cloaked as Vampyros Lesbos.
Redolent of a video-store shelf's worth of 1960s and '70s psychological horror thrillers — especially Repulsion , Performance , Taxi Driver and maybe even The Killing of Sister George in an oblique way, as well as recent pastiches of that same period ( The Duke of Burgundy ) — Saint Maud seeds the clouds with an eclectic mix of influences, but it works, creating a film with its own strange weather.