Mafu (una terrificante storia d'amore)

Mafu (una terrificante storia d'amore) (1978)

The Mafu Cage

Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their late father, locked in a cage. While one of the sisters seems to be keeping her head on straight, as it were, the other appears to be sinking further and further into barbarism and insanity.

Data di uscita
1978-03-19
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (32)
Durata
1 h 42 min
Generi
Thriller, Horror
Regista
Karen Arthur

Cast

Curiosità

The Mafu Cage is a 1978 American psychological horror film directed by Karen Arthur, and starring Carol Kane and Lee Grant. Its plot follows two sisters Ellen and Cissy, both the daughters of a late anthropologist Max Carpenter, residing in a dilapidated Los Angeles mansion: Ellen, is an astronomer, and Cissy, is a dysfunctional eccentric who keeps and tortures a variety of monkeys and other primates.

Production

After making a name for herself with her $70,000 debut, Legacy, Karen Arthur worked with an investor to scrape together $1 million to independently finance The Mafu Cage. The film was shot over the course of five weeks (beginning in August 1977) on location in a mansion in Los Angeles' Los Feliz neighborhood beneath the Griffith Observatory.

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