Now, Keyon sounded unhinged.ĭEBRA BANKS: He was screaming and hollering. A few minutes earlier, he'd called while driving home from work toĪsk Debra if she'd heard from her daughter, Avis. It belonged to her future son-in-law, Keyon Pittman. It was neither the first nor the last time that ubiquitous gadget would play a critical role in the story you're about to hear, but for Debra Banks, this was the place where our story begins. But just after Thanksgiving 2006, the murmur of crickets outside this house on Howard Street was interrupted by the 21st century bark of a cell phone. The film was shot in sunny Santa Rosa, California, where the shadows are darker because the sunlight is so much brighter.Even in late November, the night settles with a summer softness over the old battlefields and bronze soldiers who stand watch over Vicksburg, Mississippi. The tension builds to an alarming climax, in a trademark sequence (another one for the Hitchcock highlight reel) showing the Master of Suspense at the top of his form.
But evidence soon begins to suggest the elder Charles might actually be a cold-blooded serial killer, and a lethal game of charades begins between uncle and niece: she knows the truth, and he knows that she knows the truth. The arrival of everyone's much loved Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotton, in his favorite role) is the catalyst to disaster, with eldest daughter Charlie in particular welcoming the arrival of her affectionate namesake as a relief from the humdrum routine of suburban life. In one of his most chilling and memorable intrigues Alfred Hitchcock lays bare the myth of small town virtue with a perverse piece of Americana about a wholesome family unaware of the gruesome skeleton lurking in its closet.
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