Well, we are officially past the halfway mark in our 31 Days of Horror series, which puts us in the 1970s! Today we’re talking about another film that belongs to one of my favorite sub-genres: Hag Horror. The movie in question is 1972’s Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, and it’s quite the humdinger. It’s a modern-day take on the tale of Hansel and Gretel, and Shelley Winters stars as the titular Auntie Roo. Man, poor Shelley Winters. Despite a colorful, decades-long career and numerous Oscar nominations/wins, she never seems to get to play somebody whom you actually like. To me, Winters will forever be the frumpy sad-sack, Alice Tripp, getting kinda-sorta-deservingly drowned by Montgomery Clift in A …
