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Deadly Hurt (1994)

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clip Grandmother from hell

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Dr Julie Jones, a child psychiatrist, says that in one particular family, violence was caused by the husband’s mother who was jealous and possessive. This caused her son to become violent towards his wife, and ultimately to kill both her and himself as the only way he could assert any control over his life