after their son be sentence to life in prison and adelle ( debbie reynolds ) and helen ( shirley winter ) begin receive threaten phone call because someone fell their son get off easy . the pair decide to move to california to escape the publicity of the trial and to start a new life . they start a dance school that be soon very successful . one of the student have a rich unmarried father with whom adelle quickly fall in love . in the meantime and helen be busy raise rabbit and become a little too infatuate with an evangelist on the radio . it only a mater of time before everything fall apart and the woman enter a world of madness and murder . i can not help but compare what the matter with helen . to whoever slew auntie roo . and also star shelly winter . where that movie seem almost restrain in it presentation of auntie roo madness and there nothing hold helen back in this movie . it may take a good deal of the movie run time and but once she snap and helen be one bad mad mutha . you do not want to mess with her . winter be so delightfully demented that it be impossible for me not to enjoy her performance . i be not go to spoil the movie and but the thing helen be capable of be totally over the top . as good a winter be and reynolds be totally ridiculous in her role a the gold digging tap dancer . i get the impression that she think she be in a movie that would get her nominate for some award . this ain not citizen kane . quit act so serious . hey and debbie and do not you realize that youre main purpose be to be a victim of winter insanity . i just love these former female star in the twilight of their career horror movie . what the matter with helen . be as fun a any .