B/w film 1966 or earlier Judith with claw fingers

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In about 1966 saw this movie. All I can remember is this family kept Judith (their daughter.) in a sort of cage and she escaped one night. She went in the house and played the piano. Her fingers were very long sort of like claws. Very scary. Course I was about twelve at the time.

Do You remember anything else? The language, if it was a TV show or a film? The genre?

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Hi stiepan, the language is English (possibly British English but I don’t think so.) It is what we called a “scary movie” back then. I suppose today it might be considered horror. But very mild compared with today’s horror movies. It was a film but maybe only 60minutes long.

Also the people/family were well off and I think the house was a mansion too. (As was usual back then.)

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I see. Thanks for the info. I will try to ask elsewhere about it. As an advice, try asking here: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/monsterkidclassichorrorforum/ I would do it myself, but I ask something quite often, so I don't want to be boring. I asked if it was a TV show, as I thought it might be a part of an anthology TV series (Something like Thriller or Alfred Hitchcock presents). One more question, if You remember: was the daughter rightfully "caged" (and how the cage looked) or the parents were simply evil?

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Don’t remember the cage. Think it was out back of the house, made of chicken wire and wood supports perhaps. Think she was probably NOT rightfully caged because the only thing wrong with her as I remember is her hands.

I see. I tried to find a movie, even asked about it. but wasn't successful :( Is it 100% sure the film is from 1966 or before?

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I asked on Reddit, and this was suggested: The Curse Of The Fly (1965).

This is what he wrote:
" Curse of the Fly has a woman named Judith who was a victim of teleportation experiments and has a creepy hand. She’s not a child but is actually the first wife of the protagonist who now has a new wife. Judith is locked up in the barn with other mutants and is occasionally let out to roam about the house and play the piano…"

Stjepan, thanks so much for taking the time to help me with this. Curse of the fly is definitely the film!!! I’m watching it on u tube. I saw it when I was12 years of age. My school showed movies in the assembly room at lunch time for a nickel. This one scared the poop out of me at the time but now it seems anything but scary. It seems so strange to me that the school was able to show what amounted to a “just released” film. Also, a lot of the scenes so far seem a little R-rated to be shown to sixth graders. Again, thanks. I’ve been wondering about this for years. Mystery solved!

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I am glad You have found it :)

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