Who Slew Auntie Roo?
Who Slew Auntie Roo? ★★½ Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?; Gingerbread House 1971 (PG)
An updated twist on the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale. Features Winters as an odd, reclusive widow mistaken for the fairy tale's children-eating witch by one of the orphans at her annual Christmas party—with dire consequences. 90m/C VHS, DVD . Shelley Winters, Ralph Richardson, Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Hugh Griffith; D: Curtis Harrington; W: Robert Blees.
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