Scalpel (1977)
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The story
Phillip Reynolds is a widowed, successful plastic surgeon and a charismatic sociopath. After he sees his daughter, Heather, making love to her boyfriend, he kills the boyfriend and stages the scene to appear like an accident. Heather witnesses this from afar and runs away from home in terror.
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