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'Strait-Jacket' for me was surprisingly good. It is not quite a classic, though it is certainly camp in a very entertaining way, but it is not schlocky either. In my view, it is one of Castle's better films (not just of this period but overall) and one of Crawford's better 60s films in a decade that really didn't see her or her film choices at ...
Movie Review. The movie plays out like a pretty early slasher imo. Of course, Joan Crawford absolutely demolishes everyone else this movie. The way her character slowly seems to unravel more and more until the absolutely bonkers ending was so good.
Though still mentally shaky, convicted axe-murderess Lucy Harbin (Joan Crawford) is released from the asylum where she was sent 20 years ago for slaying her unfaithful husband.
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Mar 9, 2015 · In front of her terrified little girl, Lucy Harbin (Crawford) takes an axe to her philandering husband and his lover, after which, despite protestations of her innocence, she is hauled off – in a strait-jacket, no less – to an institution for the criminally insane.
Starring unmatched ham-bone Joan Crawford, Strait-Jacket is a non-stop thrill ride of unintentional hilarity, cheap effects, and a conclusion so ridiculous that it’s impossible not to roar with delight.
May 15, 2015 · This film is listed among The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson’s book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE. The sound effect for the heads being chopped off was the prop man wielding an axe and cutting a watermelon in half.
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Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel. Strait-Jacket is a middling Psycho meets Gaslight proto-slasher that telegraphs its plot twists more than Western Union....