---
title: 'Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Curtis Harrington'
released: '1971-12-01'
runtime_minutes: 89
certification: 'PG-13'
genres:
  - 'Horror'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/whoever-slew-auntie-roo-1971'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067983/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)

1971 · PG-13 · 89 min · Horror · United Kingdom, United States


## Synopsis

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? is a 1971 British horror thriller film directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Ralph Richardson, Chloe Franks, Judy Cornwell, Michael Gothard, Hugh Griffith and Lionel Jeffries. Inspired by the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel", the film focuses on a demented American widow (Winters) living in her husband's English manor who becomes obsessed with a young orphan girl who resembles her dead daughter.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Curtis Harrington](https://cinepixo.com/people/curtis-harrington)
- **Screenplay:** [Jimmy Sangster](https://cinepixo.com/people/jimmy-sangster)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Kenneth V. Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenneth-v-jones)
- **Producer:** [Samuel Z. Arkoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuel-z-arkoff), [James H. Nicholson](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-h-nicholson)
- **Director of Photography:** [Desmond Dickinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/desmond-dickinson)

## Cast

- [Ralph Richardson](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-richardson)
- [Hugh Griffith](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugh-griffith)
- [Mark Lester](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-lester)
- [Lionel Jeffries](https://cinepixo.com/people/lionel-jeffries)
- [Chloe Franks](https://cinepixo.com/people/chloe-franks)
- [Shelley Winters](https://cinepixo.com/people/shelley-winters)
- [Michael Gothard](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-gothard)

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