Alice, Sweet Alice

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Alice, Sweet Alice

R

1976

1h 42m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Favorite daughter Karen (Brooke Shields) is viciously strangled and set afire in church on the day of her First Communion, and suspicion falls on her jealous and emotionally unstable sister, Alice (Paula E. Sheppard). When the girls' aunt, Annie (Jane Lowry), is later stabbed on an apartment complex stairway, Alice is sent away. But the attacks continue, prompting priest Father Tom (Rudolph Willrich) and Alice's dad, Dominick (Niles McMaster), to go in search of the real killer.

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Critics Consensus

Alice, Sweet Alice offsets some of its more ludicrous elements with campy slasher thrills and a dazzlingly macabre atmosphere.

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

04/20/2005

3.5/4

Possibly the closet American relation to an Italian giallo.

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Frank J. Avella

The Contending

02/17/2025

D

...the writing is sub-par, most of the performances are campy bad (as opposed to campy good) and the scares are pretty minimal. I’m not even sure I get the cult status surrounding it.

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

08/08/2021

1/4

...increasingly tedious and tiresome...

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

08/13/2020

3.5/5

While its plotting sashays into the ludicrous, with its campiness always underlined by a queasy peculiarity, Alice, Sweet Alice is a captivating exercise in the macabre.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

08/10/2019

3/4

A flop upon its original release, Alice, Sweet Alice has since been saved from complete irrelevance by film scholars and cultists, even if it still doesn't quite enjoy the reputation it deserves.

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C.H. Newell

Father Son Holy Gore

05/04/2019

4.5/5

Prominently placing Catholic iconography in certain frames, Sole does violence to the idea that Christ is the redeemer of anything; least of all our sins.

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Jerod S

@jeroduptown Jun 26

Kind of like the 70s version of The Bad Seed- Alice is a crafty little school girl and a lot of the killing is in and around the catholic church.

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Jonathan O

@RT41230270 Jun 21

Alice sweet Alice is a slow burn psychological slasher thriller with unsuspecting twist that we knew who's the murderer and great cast including young Brooke Shields in her first acting role and locations felt different is like your in Italy but set in New Jersey and it does have a giallo thriller from Dario Argento and several other Italian giallo filmmakers but is directed by New Jersey director Alfred Sole and he did really terrific work and you can tell there's a Hitchcock and Italian giallo filmmakers.

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owen G

@metalkillerismyfav May 27

it was reaaaally slow, man. the christian elements were kind of boring to me, and its crazy how the slasher gets revealed 30 minutes before the movie ends.

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bret A

@RT57082650 Mar 13

paula shepphard plays a awesome villion

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Tim M

@tgmacman Jan 20

While not always convincing, Alice, Sweet Alice gets props for ushering in the slasher genre with some truly shocking moments.

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Shawan L

@ShawanLLibang Jan 8

Alice, Sweet Alice is one of those under‑the‑radar gems that reminds you how inventive 1970s horror could be. mixing moody atmosphere and sharp psychological tension that lingers well past the final scene. Its religious symbolism, unsettling masks, and tight family drama give it a unique edge, while the young cast brings an eerie authenticity. It’s stylish, smart, and far richer than its slasher label implies.

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Synopsis

Favorite daughter Karen (Brooke Shields) is viciously strangled and set afire in church on the day of her First Communion, and suspicion falls on her jealous and emotionally unstable sister, Alice (Paula E. Sheppard). When the girls' aunt, Annie (Jane Lowry), is later stabbed on an apartment complex stairway, Alice is sent away. But the attacks continue, prompting priest Father Tom (Rudolph Willrich) and Alice's dad, Dominick (Niles McMaster), to go in search of the real killer.

Director: Alfred Sole
Producer: Richard K. Rosenberg
Screenwriter: Rosemary Ritvo, Alfred Sole
Production Co: Harristown Funding
Rating: R
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 13, 1976, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 14, 2017
Runtime: 1h 42m