OK, i know this might not be much to go on, but i’m hoping that the collective cultural experience of the Dope can help me out.
When i was a kid, i stayed over at a friend’s place and we stayed up most of the night watching TV. I was about 9 or 10 years old, so this was in the late 1970s, or 1980 at the latest. My friend was a real fan of horror and the macabre, and one of the things we watched was a film—i think a short film—that occasionally pops up in my memory. I’m hoping that someone can help me identify it.
The basic plot of the movie is about a husband and wife. The husband (i think; it could be the other way round) is constantly nagging at his wife to keep things neat and in order. At the end of the film, she snaps and puts a hammer through the top of his skull. The last scene is a neat, orderly row of jars with all the man’s organs and body parts, and the woman saying something like, “A place for everything, and everything in its place.”
As i said, my memory of this is very hazy, to the extent that i can’t remember whether it was the man or the woman who does the killing. I sometimes think that it must be an episode of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits, but in my memory at least, it seems far more gruesome than those shows ever were. I’m almost 100 percent sure that it was in black and white.
When i was a kid, i lived in Australia, but i’m pretty sure that the movie/show itself was not a local production.
So, can anyone help me out here?