Picture Mommy Dead is a 1966 horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 directed by Bert I. Gordon

Bert I. Gordon

Bert I. Gordon is an American film director most famous for such science fiction and horror B-movies as The Amazing Colossal Man and Village of the Giants....

. It stars Don Ameche

Don Ameche

Don Ameche was an Academy Award winning American actor with a career spanning almost sixty years.-Personal life:...

 and Martha Hyer

Martha Hyer

Martha Hyer is an American actress.She attended Northwestern University and was a member of Pi Beta Phi fraternity. After completing her education, she next appeared in The Locket in 1946...

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Plot

The film follows the genre of the mad family movie started in the 1960 film Psycho as it deals with a young woman, Susan, who thinks her father killed her mother years ago. Released from an asylum, she is reunited with her father and a new stepmother, but suspicious ongoings threaten to push her over the edge.

Cast

• Don Ameche
  Don Ameche
  Don Ameche was an Academy Award winning American actor with a career spanning almost sixty years.-Personal life:...
  
   as Edward Shelley
• Martha Hyer
  Martha Hyer
  Martha Hyer is an American actress.She attended Northwestern University and was a member of Pi Beta Phi fraternity. After completing her education, she next appeared in The Locket in 1946...
  
   as Francene Shelley
• Zsa Zsa Gabor
  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  Zsa Zsa Gabor is a Hungarian-born American stage, film and television actress.She acted on stage in Vienna, Austria, in 1932, and was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936. She emigrated to the United States in 1941 and became a sought-after actress with "European flair and style", with a personality that...
  
   as Jessica Shelley
• Susan Gordon as Susan Shelley
• Maxwell Reed
  Maxwell Reed
  Maxwell Reed was a British actor who became a matinee idol during the 1950s with the Rank Organisation in Britain....
  
  as Anthony, caretaker