Decapitated Granny in Wheelchair on Lift in '60s Film

by Swan
(Chicago, Illinois, USA)

What is tittle of 1960s horror movie involving a child raised as the opposite sex who grows up to murder the mother or grandmother responsible for rearing him/her?

The clock on the screen gives the audience 1 minute to leave theater before scene in which the invalid descends stairs in a wheelchair via a stair lift. When the lift comes to rest at bottom of stairs, her head rolls off. She has been decapitated.

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It was made in response to "Psycho" (1960)
by: MystMoonstruck

Homicidal (1961) starring Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin Jean Arless (aka Joan Marshall)
From TCM ***SPOILERS***: As children, Miriam Webster and her half brother, Warren, had been cared for by Helga, a kindly nurse. The old woman is now mute and paralyzed and lives in a gloomy old mansion with a companion, Emily, Warren's alleged wife. Though Helga is threatened with murder by Emily, a homicidal maniac who has already killed the local justice of the peace, she is unable to communicate her deathly fear. Miriam and her fiance, Karl, become suspicious of Emily's strange behavior and discuss the situation with Warren. Karl decides to go to the police, and Miriam and Warren return to the old mansion, which Warren enters alone. When he fails to come out, Miriam goes in and discovers the murdered body of Helga. As she backs away in terror, she is suddenly confronted by Emily wielding a knife. Miriam watches in horror as Emily tears off her wig, thus establishing Warren and Emily as one and the same. As "Emily" raises her knife to stab Miriam, Dr. Jonas arrives unexpectedly at the house, and in the ensuing scuffle the psychotic killer is shot and killed by Miriam. Later it is revealed that following a trip to Denmark, Warren had taken on the psychopathic personality of Emily but had been forced to maintain his masculine identity in order to protect his inheritance. Both the justice of the peace and Helga were slain to keep them from exposing Warren's secret.

TRIVIA:
A 45-second timer overlaid the film's climax as the heroine approached a house harboring a sadistic killer. A voice-over advised the audience of the time remaining in which they could leave the theatre and receive a full refund if they were too frightened to see the remainder of the film. To ensure the more wily patrons did not simply stay for a second showing and leave during the finale, Castle had different color tickets printed for each show. About 1% of patrons still demanded refunds... (Read the rest at Wikipedia!)

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