6 This bizarre little English film tells the truelife story of a boy whose fascination with chemistry leads him to experiment with poison concoctions to wreak revenge on his enemies.

Caught and sent to a mental institution for punishment, he becomes the pet project of the institution's psychiatrist, who believes the boy, both brainy and personable without seeming criminally inclined, can be rehabilitated. Eventually he is sent out into the world again, his record expunged so as not to hurt his chances of getting on, and soon people start dying at his place of employment.

If the film has any redeeming value I suppose it is its warning, "trust no one," especially no one who has once been caught. But I'm not sure that's a message we need in an already all-too-skeptical age such as ours.