Home For The Holidays. 1972.
A ailing man summons his four daughters to come home for Christmas, once there he tells them he thinks his new wife is poisoning him and he wants his daughters to kill her.
Second time seeing this and it's a lot better tan the first viewing, right from the start we meet the older sister, Jessica Walter heading to collect her other sisters, Jill Haworth, Eleanor Parker and Sally Field. Then introduced to the wicked stepmother Julie Harris and father Walter Brennan.
The animosity that the four sisters have for their father and why is created brilliantly as it's told in the story of why there is hatred between father and daughters and stepmother. Nobody is loyal than daddy's little girls and they are given a bombshell, it slowly becomes a mystery as to who is killing the sisters and becomes a good game of hide and seek or cat and mouse. this is a made for tv movie that doesn't have or a need a big budget but certainly does have the right atmosphere for a good chiller.
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