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5.9/10 • 36

1958-05-111h 18m

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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.

Directors
Robert Day
Writters
Jan Read, John Croydon
Editors
Jan Read, John Croydon, Peter Mayhew

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Boris Karloff

    Boris Karloff

    James Rankin

  2. Jean Kent

    Jean Kent

    Cora Seth

  3. Elizabeth Allan

    Elizabeth Allan

    Barbara Rankin

  4. Anthony Dawson

    Anthony Dawson

    Supt. Burk

  5. Vera Day

    Vera Day

    Pearl

  6. Tim Turner

    Tim Turner

    Dr. Kenneth McColl

  7. Diane Aubrey

    Diane Aubrey

    Lily Rankin

  8. Max Brimmell

    Max Brimmell

    Newgate Prison Turnkey

  9. Leslie Perrins

    Leslie Perrins

    Newgate Prison Governor

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John Chard

Oct 30, 2015

7/10

The 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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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Keywords
obsessioncemeterymurderserial killerseries of murdershangingchorus girlknitting