House of Mortal Sin (1976)

Directors

Pete Walker

Cast

Anthony Sharpe, Susan Penhaligon, Stephanie Beacham

The story

Hearing that her friend Bernard Cutler has become a Catholic priest, Jenny Welch attends church to seek him out but finds that the man taking confession is not Bernard, but the elderly Father Xavier Meldrum. She quickly leaves, but not before telling Meldrum that her on-off boyfriend Terry Wyatt recently pressured her into having an abortion. Outwardly a kind-hearted counsellor of troubled youth, Meldrum is in fact a fervent believer in "divine justice" who freely resorts to emotional abuse in his obsessive efforts to redeem those he views as sinners.

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