Alice, Sweet Alice
Alice, Sweet Alice
In 1961, divorced Catholic couple Dom and Catherine Spages' life is upended when their teenage daughter Alice is suspected of her younger sister Karen's brutal murder during her First Holy Communion and a series of stabbings follow.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 7, 2025
A low budget 70’s mystery thriller with a dash of some slashing. There some pretty wild stuff here— red herrings, Catholic guilt, a young Brooke Shields, creepy masks. I really loved the mask and outfit of the killer, especially when we get double mask action. It’s a solidly fun mystery with some low budget thrills and kills. There is also some stuff that hasn’t aged so well. There’s some gross fat shaming in the treatment of the neighbor Mr. Alphonso. They make him out to be so completely disgusting with piss and shit stains on his pants. There’s also one of the grossest movie quotes that I can remember that objectifies a pubescent girl. A cop says,”She is a weird little girl. Did you notice her tits? When I went to put the tube around her she looked up at me like she wanted me to feel her up.”
Still some of those cringey moments don’t take too much away from the good time.