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Christine and marry Jennifer. Keith murders his boss with a rake when Thompson teases him about spotting Keith cheating on Christine with Jennifer. Keith returns home with an axe to kill Christine, but finds that Andy has returned and changes his mind. However, Keith calls Andy "Nicky" which puzzles Christine, though Keith gives her an explanation. Jennifer meets Christine while enrolling Nicky in school; Christine is struck by the name Nicky, coupled with Jennifer mentioning the remote road outside town she and Nicky have rented a house on, which Christine thinks might be Keith's former cottage, which he has sub leased. Keith stops by the school and sees them together and panics. Later, he denies knowing Jennifer.
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until Andy pushes him off the ladder which knocks him into the chipper. Keith is only hanging on the edge and grabs Andy. Christine gets up and helps Andy get away. Jennifer cuts the cable with a hatchet, when the chipper’s engine shuts off. Jennifer sees the pieces of Keith in the chipper. Andy stands up and
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a job at a nursery. Keith meets principal
Christine Davis and her son Andy, who uses a wheelchair after an accident, although doctors believe his continued inability to walk is psychosomatic. Keith and Christine begin dating. A recent boyfriend of Christine who has been monitoring them approaches Keith at his house to warn him off. Keith kills him with a shovel and buries the body in his garden.
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Gene
Clifford escapes from the same institution in Puget Sound he was placed in four years ago. He seeks out a surgeon to alter his appearance. Gene kills the doctor by slitting his throat with a saw and makes his way to Deer View, where he acquires an identity, Keith Grant, as well as a cottage and
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Christine and Andy appear. Christine has figured out that Keith is
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Andy asks friend Father Ernest
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Tony Scott stating " film lurches on without much credibility" before going on to say "blood spurts, but director (and co-writer with Marc B. Ray) Guy Magar doesn't make the horror convincing. The simplistic story line and the unconvincing portrayal by
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