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Jimmy McNichol in Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)

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Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

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  • An orphaned teenager finds himself being dominated by his aunt who's hell-bent on keeping him with her at all costs.
  • Seventeen-year-old high school senior Billy Lynch was raised by his maternal aunt, Cheryl Roberts, with whom he has lived since the age of three when his parents died in a tragic accident. Aunt Cheryl has not dated over that time; she and Billy have lived alone in the big old house next to the woods. Billy hopes to get a basketball scholarship to the University of Denver, where his girlfriend Julie Linden will be attending. Aunt Cheryl, in her possessiveness of Billy, doesn't let Julie into the house and doesn't want Billy to go away to college. What those around her don't know is that Cheryl is deranged and will do whatever it takes to keep Billy all to herself. What Billy also does not know is that there is an unknown third in his and Aunt Cheryl's relationship, that third who is either the cause of or has exacerbated her derangement. Aunt Cheryl's actions lead to Billy being implicated in a murder, Billy's plea of innocence is not helped by the narrow-mindedness of the lead police detective, hyper-masculine Lieutenant Joe Carlson. Billy, those close to him, and anyone who gets too close to discovering the truth about Aunt Cheryl could be in danger at her hands in the process.—Huggo
  • In Flagstaff, the parents of the two-year old Billy Lynch leave the boy with his Aunt Cheryl Roberts to visit his grandparents. Out of the blue, the car loses its break on the road and they die. Fourteen years later, Billy tells her aunt that his coach told him that a scout from the Denver University will see his next game and probably will offer him a scholarship in the university. His dominating aunt plots an evil plan to keep him at home with her, and kills the television technician Phil Brody, claiming that he tried to rape her. However, Phil is gay and the bigoted Detective Joe Carlson believes that Billy is also gay and his aunt is protecting him, but he cannot prove his beliefs. On the day of the game, Cheryl drugs Billy and he faints, losing his chance to show his skills. When Billy falls in love with Julia Duffy, Cheryl tries to take her out of their lives. Soon Cheryl escalates her madness and obsession and begins a crime spree to keep Billy with her.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Since the death of his parents fourteen years ago, Billy Lynch has been raised by his over-protective aunt Cheryl. But once he turns seventeen, he is soon set on planning his life...without her. He's planing on going on to college and is dating local girl Julie. None of which sits well for his aunt, who's lost everyone else in her life and now with her nephew ready to leave, ensures she starts on a campaign to keep him with her...forever. But as her plans misfire she becomes swept up in a cycle of psychosis and frenzied violence all being blamed on Billy by everyone else...including a homophobic detective, whose anti-gay prejudice is steadily reaching its zenith...leading to an unforeseeable outcome.—suspicous

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