Alice, Sweet Alice

Alice, Sweet Alice also known as Communion or Holy Terror is a 1976 American slasher film cowritten and directed by Alfred Sole, and starring Linda Miller, Paula Sheppard, and Brooke Shields in her film debut. The narrative focuses on a troubled adolescent girl who becomes a suspect in the brutal murder of her younger sister at her first communion.

The film is set in Paterson, New Jersey in the early 1960s. Catherine Spages Linda Miller is visiting Father Tom Rudolph Willrich with her two daughters, who both attend St. Michaels Parish Girls School 9yearold Karen Brooke Shields and 12yearold Alice Paula Sheppard. Karen is preparing for her First Communion and Father Tom gives her his mothers crucifix as a gift. A jealous Alice puts on a creepy, translucent grinning mask, frightening Mrs. Tredoni Mildred Clinton, Father Toms housekeeper. Later, Alice steals Karens porcelain doll and lures her into an abandoned building with it. She jumps out and scares Karen with the grinning mask and locks her in a room. When she lets her out she tells her that if anyone finds out, shell never see the doll again.On the day of the First Communion, Karen is attacked and strangled to death in the church transept by a person in a translucent mask and yellow raincoat. Her body is dragged away and dumped into a bench compartment, which is set on fire with a candle, but not before ripping the crucifix from her neck. Smoke begins to fill the church. Meanwhile, Alice enters the church, carrying Karens veil. She kneels in place to receive communion when a scream is heard. A curious nun had entered the back room where the confessionals are located and finds Karens body. People run in, horrified. Catherine is inconsolable. ........

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