Alice, Sweet Alice
Alice, Sweet Alice is a 1976 film from the USA, directed by Alfred Sole, running 98 minutes. reelscum files it under giallo and slasher.
- Year
- 1976 · 1970s films
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Director
- Alfred Sole
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- known (26/100)
- Also known as
- Holy Terror · Communion · Alice Sweet Alice · The Mask Murders
Defined in the glossary: Giallo, Slasher
American giallo in Catholic New Jersey. Genuinely disturbing and well acted.
An American giallo in Catholic New Jersey, and disturbing. After a child is murdered at her first communion, suspicion falls on her strange older sister, and the film plays as a nasty mystery soaked in Catholic guilt and translucent yellow raincoats. It features a young Brooke Shields in an early role.
It is more artful and more upsetting than the standard slasher, closer in spirit to the Italian gialli it borrows from, with a real sense of religious dread. The masked child killer is a unsettling image.
An overlooked, atmospheric American horror film with a mean streak.
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The cycle in depth
- The giallo, 1963 to 1976
A line of yellow paperbacks, a killer in black gloves, and Mario Bava building the American slasher a decade before Hollywood cashed the cheque.
On these lists
- Better than their reputation
Prosecuted, banned, dismissed or filed on the wrong shelf. All of them are good.
Filed alongside
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Happy Birthday to Me
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