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- Strait-Jacket is a middling Psycho meets Gaslight proto-slasher that telegraphs its plot twists more than Western Union. But it’s elevated by Joan Crawford’s remarkably possessed and highly physical turn as an ax murderess returning home from the asylum. Rated: 3.5/5 • Oct 8, 2022
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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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Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel. Strait-Jacket is a middling Psycho meets Gaslight proto-slasher that telegraphs its plot twists more than Western Union. But it’s elevated by Joan Crawford’s remarkably...
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.
Sep 1, 2021 · Straitjacket: Directed by Phillip Wiedenheft. With Daniel Britt, Jerrica Carr-Lee, Eric Robert Dickey, Patrick Ferguson. An unstable veteran attempts to flee town after an accidental shooting in the woods.
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70. Variety. A fey and frisky farce with a fabulous fashion sense, Straight-Jacket artfully balances broadly campy humor and ironically overplayed soap opera. Read More. By Joe Leydon FULL REVIEW.
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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 decades prior, is suspected of a series of axe murders following her release from a psychiatric hospital .
