Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)
November 13, 1976Release Date
Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)
November 13, 1976Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Linda Miller
Catherine Spages
Mildred Clinton
Mrs. Tredoni
Paula E. Sheppard
Alice Spages
Niles McMaster
Dom Spages
Jane Lowry
Aunt Annie DeLorenze
Rudolph Willrich
Father Tom
Michael Hardstark
Detective Spina
Alphonso DeNoble
Mr. Alphonso
Gary Allen
Jim DeLorenze
Brooke Shields
Karen Spages
Louisa Horton
Dr. Whitman
Tom Signorelli
Detective Brennan
Alfred Sole
Director
Lillian Roth
Pathologist
Rosemary Ritvo
Writer
Patrick Gorman
Father Pat
Richard K. Rosenberg
Producer
Kathy Rich
Angela DeLorenze
Ted Tinling
Detective Cranston
Stephen Lawrence
Composer
M. Edward Salier
Editor
Mary Boylan
Mother Superior
Peter Bosche
Monsignor
John Lawless
ProductionDesigner
Joseph Rossi
Father Joe
Marco Quazzo
Robert DeLorenze
Dick Boccelli
Hotel Clerk
Ronald Willoughby
Funeral Director
Sally Anne Golden
Policewoman
Lucy Hale
Church Soloist
Libby Fennelly
Nun
Maurice Yonowsky
Children Shelter Attendant
Beth Carlton
Children Shelter Attendant
Drew Roman
Policeman
Antonino Rocca
Funeral Attendant
Michael Weil
Funeral Attendant
Leslie Feigen
Doctor
Alfred Sole
Screenplay / Director / Executive Producer
Michelle Cohen
Costume Design
Stephen Finkin
Set Decoration
Anne Paul
Makeup Artist
Dick Vorisek
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Karen Sole
Makeup Artist
Dan Sable
Sound Editor
Mark Salwasser
Sound
Marc G. Greenberg
Associate Producer
Larry Panucci
Hairstylist
Adrienne Hamalian-Mangine
Assistant Director
Barbara Battagliese
Hairstylist
Larry Scharf
Boom Operator
Chris Hayes
Assistant Camera
Joseph Bruck
Electrician
John Friberg
Director of Photography / Camera Operator
Johnnie Rogers
Key Grip
Chuck Hall
Camera Operator / Director of Photography
Stanley Fejnas
Grip
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Details.
Release DateNovember 13, 1976
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 48m
Content RatingR
Budget$340,000
Filming LocationsNew Jersey, United States
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Alice, Sweet Alice (originally titled Communion) is a 1976 American psychological slasher film co-written and directed by Alfred Sole, and starring Linda Miller, Paula Sheppard, and Brooke Shields in her film debut. Set in 1961 New Jersey, the film focuses on a troubled adolescent girl who becomes a suspect in the brutal murder of her younger sister at her First Communion, as well as in a series of unsolved stabbings that follow.
Inspired by Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973) and the films of Alfred Hitchcock, writer-director Sole devised the screenplay with Rosemary Ritvo, an English professor who was his neighbor. At the time, Sole had been working as an architect restoring historic buildings in his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey, and several properties he had worked on were used as shooting locations. Filming took place throughout the summer of 1975 in Paterson and Newark.
The film premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival under its original title, Communion, in November 1976, and was released under this title in London in September 1977. After being acquired by Allied Artists, it was re-titled Alice, Sweet Alice, and released in the United States on November 18, 1977. Another theatrical re-release occurred in 1981 under the title Holy Terror, which marketed the popularity of Shields after her performance in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978). While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic, and was controversial in Ireland due to its apparent anti-Catholic themes.
In the years since its release, Alice, Sweet Alice has gained a cult following and is considered a contemporary classic of the slasher subgenre in critical circles. It has also been the focus of scholarship in the areas of horror film studies, particularly regarding its depictions of Roman Catholicism, child emotional neglect, and the disintegration of the American nuclear family. In 1996, Alice, sweet Alice inspired Wes Craven To make Scream (franchise)