It starts out in London, in 1957, a man is found with half his head missing. Edmund and his wife Dorothy are arrested, convicted, and sentenced to 25 years in a mental hospital for the crime. Edmund and Dorothy have two daughters, Jackie and Debbie. Jackie is the older sister and remembers her parents and what they did. Debbie on the other hand was too young to remember them and grew up with foster parents. Jackie and Debbie now live together as adults, yet they have quite a tumultuous relationship.
It's been 25 years and Edmund and Dorothy are released. Debbie is not yet aware of her parent's true history, but Jackie visits them at night, bringing them supplies and suspiciously bloody packages. Edmund seems rather normal, but Dorothy still obviously has some issues. Dorothy gives Tarot readings on the side, even though Edmund highly disapproves. I dunno, maybe it's because Dorothy has a nasty habit of sometimes killing her clients. If someone doesn't quite like what Dorothy's Tarot cards say, Dorothy shuts 'em up with a hot fireplace poker to the gut... sssssssss.
By now they have a few corpses piling up, and coincidentally they happen to be a little hungry. What better way to cover up a crime and also have a nice little feast... eat the evidence. Through cannibalism, they devour all the people Dorothy has flipped out on and killed. Edmund confesses that Dorothy was the actual killer 25 years ago (duh) and that he pleaded insanity just so that they could stay together (now that's love).
Debbie eventually learns of her homicidal cannibalistic parents and confronts them. Debbie also has her boyfriend with her, which Dorothy soon kills while Debbie watches. They hide the body in the hay baler with the remains of the other victims. Obviously, Debbie gets her homicidal attitude from her mother and they begin to kill together and bond as mother and daughter (can you feel the love?). Jackie eventually notices that her mother is killing again and realizes that her suspicious bloody packages are not accomplishing what she had intended for them to do. You see, Jackie has been pretending to be killing people to satisfy her mother's craving for murder. The mysterious bloody packages are supposed to be guts from the murder victim, proving that a murder did actually take place... and to give Mom a little something to snack on. But the guts are actually butcher's leftovers that she has been getting from the local supermarket (what a weirdo they must think she is).
Jackie's bizarre form of therapy has obviously been a total failure, therefore she contacts a real doctor to come and evaluate Dorothy. He disguises himself as a person wanting a Tarot card reading. Dorothy can see by way of the cards that he is not who he seems to be and realizes that he's a doctor that's come to take her back to the mental hospital. She kills him of course. It's odd though, rather than being shocked that her mom just killed someone, she's more upset with the fact that Dorothy has bonded with Debbie.
Edmund confesses that he's finally sick and tired of covering up Dorothy's crimes. The job is then turned over to Debbie, who is more than willing to take over in her dad's place. And with Edmund out of the way, Dorothy decides that she prefers Debbie as her daughter much more than Jackie, so they corner Jackie and kill her. The end.
Not terribly original, I must admit. But this film has an air of comedy that is always barely out of reach. There are many situations in this movie where you're really not sure whether you're supposed to laugh or not. I'm not even sure if the filmmakers meant for there to be any comedy intentions in the film at all, it just sort of happened accidentally. Nonetheless, it's a good effort and well worth wasting 90 minutes of your life on.
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