Strait-Jacket (1964)

Directed by

William Castle

Genre

horror film, slasher film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film, psycho-biddy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 29m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 134 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman is released from a psychiatric hospital twenty years after killing her husband and his lover. She becomes the prime suspect when a series of axe murders begin happening around her.

tensesuspensefulmelodramaticgorycreepycampypsychologically intensedated

What happens

Strait-Jacket is a 1964 American psychological horror film directed and produced by William Castle, written by Robert Bloch and starring Joan Crawford. Its plot follows a woman who, having murdered her husband and his lover 20 years prior, is suspected of a series of axe murders following her release from a psychiatric hospital. Released by Columbia Pictures in January 1964, the film was the first of two written for Castle by Bloch, the second being The Night Walker (1964). It was promoted with the tagline "Keep saying to yourself - It's only a film... It's only a film... It's only a film...". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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