Review by BA_Harrison

If you can't guess the twist ending of So Sad About Gloria at least half an hour before it happens, you clearly haven't seen enough horror/thriller movies. Even in 1973, it must've seemed old hat. If the ending hadn't been so trite and predictable, I might have forgiven the fact that the film is so uneventful and boring for the most part. There's only one good scene in the whole film - the brutal and bloody axe murder of a buxom young woman - the majority of the screen-time being devoted to the sappy romance between heiress Gloria Wellman (Lori Saunders) and aspiring writer Chris Kenner (Robert Ginnaven).

Having just been released from a mental hospital, Gloria still suffers from terrifying nightmares that somehow relate to her father's death, but her new relationship with Chris helps to banish her fears. Chris is exactly what Gloria needs: a caring, loving and understanding partner, and she is over the moon when he pops the question (with the approval of her Uncle Fredrick, played by Dean Jagger). In fact, Chris is almost too perfect - and it doesn't take much to put two and two together, especially when the new home that Chris rents for the couple turns out to be the place where the axe murder happened, and Gloria starts to hear strange noises in the night. Why, one severe shock and she would be pushed right over the edge... Yawn!

3.5/10, rounded up to 4 for the savage axe attack; more stuff like that, and this would've been great.