Stars Shelley Winters, an American, and it's based on the German "Hansel and Gretel"--but it's still a sold British horror to be sure...and one set during Christmas (it's just that it's getting to be that hot, hot time of year down here in the south (!) and winter movies are appreciated--it's 96 out right now....and that's "mild"!). Set during the 1920's the macabre British take on the classic fairystory, Mrs. Forrest (Winters) holds an "super fancy" Christmas party every year for the 10 "best" little orphans down the road....however, it turns out she is also a completely demented loon, with the mummified remains of her daughter locked away in the attic...things go very wrong when two of the little "urchins" get locked in her big mansion, that they simply know as "The Gingerbread House."
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