Haunted Strangler
by Robert Day
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Actor: Anthony Dawson, Boris Karloff, Elizabeth Allan, Jean Kent, Vera DayDirector: Robert Day
Cinematographer: Lionel Banes
Editor: Peter Mayhew
Producer: Charles F. Vetter
Producer: John Croydon
Writer: John Croydon
Producer: Richard Gordon
Writer: Jan Read
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), PCM Mono; English (Original Language), PCM Mono
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 78 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-06-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Haunted Strangler
Movie Review: Karloff Masterpiece!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best horror movies that Boris Karloff made and he really shows his acting talent.
Summary of Haunted Strangler
Boris Karloff stars in this terrifying story, reminiscent of the unsolved Jack the Ripper case. Set against the sinister background of London in the gaslight days, a man is driven by an inner compulsion to kill, becoming a human beast that strikes again and again, brutally murdering a number of young women.The first half of The Haunted Strangler is a civilized look at Victorian London, with socially minded novelist Boris Karloff investigating a 20-year-old murder case. Still, it's Karloff, right? So when the elegant, snow-haired king of horror movies finally wanders into a graveyard in the middle of the night, shovel in hand, intent on digging up the bones of a serial killer, the viewer can breath a sigh of relief: we're back on familiar turf. Freshly dug turf, that is. This is not the last surprise in this neatly turned picture, which has some genuinely disturbing moments mixed into the cut-rate atmosphere. The plot borrows from the legends of Dr. Jekyll and Jack the Ripper, and the presence of Karloff specifically invokes his earlier horrors in Val Lewton's moody shockers, Bedlam and The Body Snatcher. The horror maestro, 70 years old, is exceptionally agile; stripped to the waist and fighting a straitjacket, he looks as though he's about to outwrestle his two burly attendants down at the local insane asylum. You go, Boris! Weirdest thing about this movie: the inordinate amount of footage devoted to can-can dancers--no, the star is not involved; Karloff wasn't that agile. --Robert Horton
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