Grip of the Strangler
A researcher scrutinizing a notorious serial killer, executed by hanging two decades ago, appears to be possessed by the long-dead strangler.
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Robert Day
Douglas Hickox
Hazel Swift
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John Chard
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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The directors of Grip of the Strangler are Robert Day, Douglas Hickox, and Hazel Swift.
The cast of Grip of the Strangler includes Anthony Dawson as Supt. Burk, Roy Russell as Medical Superintendent, Boris Karloff as James Rankin, Peggy Ann Clifford as Kate, Diane Aubrey as Lily Rankin, Dorothy Gordon as Hannah, Vera Day as Pearl, Elizabeth Allan as Barbara Rankin, Tim Turner as Dr. Kenneth McColl, Leslie Perrins as Newgate Prison Governor, Derek Birch as Guyse Hospital Superintendent, Jean Kent as Cora Seth, and more.
The duration of Grip of the Strangler is 1h 18 mins.
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Grip of the Strangler was released on 11 May 1958.
Grip of the Strangler is listed under Horror, Crime, Mystery, and Thriller on Fanbiz.
Grip of the Strangler has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 7.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "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 han..."
