A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? is a 1971 horror-thriller film directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, and Sir Ralph Richardson. Based partly on the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel", the film focuses on a demented American widow living in her husband's English manor who becomes obsessed with a young orphan girl who resembles her dead daughter.