]The landmark film by post-WWII director Arthur Penn (who had previously directedThe Miracle Worker (1962), The Train (1964)(uncredited and replaced by John Frankenheimer), andMickey One (1965)- also with Beatty) was ultimately a popular and commercial success, but it was first widely denounced by film reviewers for glamorizing the two killers and only had mediocre box-office results.(It was knifed hrough the body of one of the stick-figure children in the family drawing.Loomis remarked: "Sister").They also discovered he wordSamhainscrawled in bloody capital letters on he chalkboard.Loomis explained the Celtic word:"It""s a Celtic word.""Samhain."" It means the Lord of the Dead.The end of summer.The Festival ofSamhain.October 31st."Dr.Loomis was called aside by a colleague, his assistant Nurse Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens) from the Sanitarium, and told that Dr.The orgasmic frenzy of the kinky, erotic scene with sexual thrusting turns brutal, raw, and violent with multiple ice-pick thrusts that cause gushing, spurting blood.Well, three anyway.You know, you two girls have everything.You""re tall and short and slim and stout and blonde and brunette, and that""s just the kind of a girl Icrave.