Two Catholic boarding school students (Dominic Guard and Dai Bradley) embark upon a carefully calculated campaign to drive their hated headmaster (Richard Burton) insane. The boys launch their scheme by cooking up the most bizarre and depraved of imaginary sins, then recite these infractions in the Confessional. This sadistic little game gets wildly out of hand, resulting in murder. It's a toss-up as to who is the most repulsive character; the headmaster or his two charges. One of a long line of
Trans World Entertainment
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Richard Burton is such an intense actor, sometimes it works well in a film, and sometimes it doesn't work. In the case of this film, it works sometimes but I found it a little distracting. It is an interesting story but slow moving sometimes. Rather bleak.
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