Most ignored it. The first film was a grainy, slow-burn piece of 70s psychosexual melodrama — tame by modern standards, but controversial then. A sequel from ’83? Unlikely. The original director, Carl Stegman (a pseudonym for a forgotten underground filmmaker), had vanished after 1981.

Lydia confronts Edward Vane (played by the original actor from 1978, , now 68 and terrifyingly serene). He sits in a wheelchair by the lake, painting a canvas that is entirely black.

Now Eleanor is dead. Officially: suicide. Unofficially: the sheriff (a sweaty, red-faced man named , played by M. Emmet Walsh ) won’t say. 3. The Blue Ribbon Lydia stays in her mother’s old house. It smells of lavender and decay. In the attic, she finds a trunk. Inside: faded photographs of young women, all wearing the same blue ribbon around their necks. Dated 1953, 1963, 1973 — every ten years.