Grip of the Strangler
"KING OF THE MONSTERS! KARLOFF IN HIS NEW HORROR HIT!"
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
Top Cast
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Boris Karloff
James Rankin
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Jean Kent
Cora Seth
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Elizabeth Allan
Barbara Rankin
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Anthony Dawson
Supt. Burk
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Vera Day
Pearl
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Tim Turner
Dr. Kenneth McColl
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Diane Aubrey
Lily Rankin
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Max Brimmell
Newgate Prison Turnkey
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Leslie Perrins
Newgate Prison Governor
Overview
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
Rating
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1 Reviews
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John Chard7 Oct 30, 2015The Haymarket Strangler Returns! Boris Karloff plays a man who comes to believe that a serial killer from 20 years previously was innocent of the murders for which he was hanged. The case starts to consume him, literally... Based on the story "Stranglehold" written by Jan Read, pic unfolds as a creepy take of the Jekyll and Hyde kind. It's never overtly scary, but the atmospherics are palpable and the period flavours superb. This never resorts to cheap thrills, and unusually for the era of film making it doesn't rely on effects work for the transformation sequences - it is just Karloff acting! Plenty of horror movie staples are adhered to, such as a hanging, a coffin opening, an awful prison and an asylum, whilst that even though there's a little filler that could have been cut from the running time, Karloff and the intriguing mystery part of the narrative marry up to the atmosphere to round out a good old classic horror yarn. 7/10
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