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Ingrid Bergman as Paula Alquist in Gaslight (1944)

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The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)

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All the Kind Strangers (1974, Burt Kennedy)

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CHILDREN OF THE CORN dir. Fritz Kiersch, 1984

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Patty McCormack & Nancy Kelly in The Bad Seed (1956)

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People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad.

VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED 1960, dir. Wolf Rilla

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Anne Hamilton-Byrne, glamorous, manipulative cult leader. She founded a cult known as The Family, stealing children and injecting them with LSD.

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The children of the Santiniketan Park Association, or the Family.

Community started by Anne Hamilton-Byrne in mid 60s in Australia. Children were brought in by the members of the cult or walk ins. She claimed those children to be her own. To prevent arising suspicion, she bleached the children's hair blonde to make them look related. Looks like shots from 'Children of the corn'.

The compound where the cult resided was raided by authorities in 1987 and children were finally taken away after years of abuse and neglect.

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Meryl Streep in A Cry in the Dark (1988) co-written and directed by Fred Schepisi. Fred was born in Melbourne, Australia, and has 18 director credits, from a 1968 short, his first feature in 1976, to 2013. His entry among my best 1,001 movies is Six Degrees of Separation. His other notable credits include The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Plenty, Roxanne, IQ, Last Orders, and two episodes of Empire Falls.