Deranged

“Pretty Sally Mae died a very unnatural death...But the worst hasn't happened to her yet!”

A year after his mother's funeral, Ezra Cobb (Roberts Blossom) digs her up and carries her home to the farmhouse in rural Wisconsin. She had raised him on the belief that all women are evil, and he cannot stand her absence. Ormsby and Gillen frame it as a newspaper columnist's account, Tom Sims (Leslie Carlson) speaking straight to us, and Ezra sits in the kitchen beside her, the needle and thread in his hands.