The Mafu Cage
The Mafu Cage (also released as My Sister, My Love, Deviation and Don't Ring the Doorbell) is a 1978 American psychological horror film directed by Karen Arthur, and starring Carol Kane and Lee Grant. Its plot follows two sisters, both the daughters of a late anthropologist, residing in a dilapidated Los Angeles mansion: one, an astronomer, and the other, a dysfunctional eccentric who keeps and tortures a variety of monkeys and other primates.
Plot
Ellen Carpenter (Lee Grant) is a successful but emotionally repressed astronomer in Los Angeles who resides with her sister, Cissy (Carol Kane) in a dilapidating house in the Hollywood Hills; the sisters inherited the home from their late father, a successful anthropologist who worked extensively in Africa. Cissy is mentally imbalanced, childlike, and unable to carry on a functional life on her own, spending most of her time caring for her pet monkeys—which she refers to as "mafus"—which she keeps in a large cage in the living room. None of the animals last long in Cissy's possession, however, due to her violent outbursts, during which she kills them.
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author | Don Chastain |
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contentLocation | Los Angeles |
director | Karen Arthur |
editor | Carol Littleton |
genre | horror |
keywords | african art african tribe anthropologist anthropology arizona astronomer carry on clothe griffith observatory hollywood hills incest inherit king colobus living room locked in monkey murder nervous breakdown orangutan pet monkey private life regalia trap zoologist zoology |
producer | Diana Young |
theme | psychological horror |