Suddenly, Last Summer

New Orleans, 1937. Brain surgeon Dr. John Cukrowicz is summoned to the home of fabulously wealthy Mrs. Violet Venable, who wants to have her young niece Catherine lobotomised. After a trip to Europe with Violet's son Sebastian - who died there under mysterious circumstances - Catherine appeared to go mad. Released from an asylum to Violet's care, Catherine suffers from horrific nightmares and unpredictable bursts of violent behaviour. As it turns out, she is harbouring an awful secret concerning Violet's late, beloved son - a secret that Violet intends to,keep from the world, even at the expense of Catherine's life. The explanatory flashback is as lurid a piece of filmmaking as ever emerged from the 1950s.