United States

• Straight Jacket

It is hard enough at the best of times to separate illusion from reality but for KAREN NICHOLLS, a young housewife recovering from alcoholism, her horrific visions of decapitation create a living nightmare. Supported by her husband, she leaves the hospital and together they start afresh in a new and larger house, and all seems well and settled at last. BUT... The visions return more frequently and even more alarmingly and when a neighbour tells her that a murder was committed in the house her paranoia gets out of control. She imagines she is being spied on and becomes suspicious of her gardener - and her husband believes that alcohol has claimed her again. But Karen is convinced that these incidents are reality - but are these reflections of the past, part of the present or premonitions of the future?