An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses.An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses.An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses.
Michael Ryan
- Detective Mel Posner
- (as Michael M. Ryan)
Fred Aldrich
- Apartment House Manager
- (uncredited)
Benjie Bancroft
- Police Officer
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaAccording to director Burt Topper, Victor Buono puffed smoke into his eyes to create tears for a particular scene.
- GoofsWhen the police are on the way to the first murder, they are driving in a 1950s boxy sedan. However, when the police arrive, they are in an early-1960s sedan.
- Crazy creditsDavey Davison's "Introducing" billing is correct as far as feature films go, but she had appeared on several TV series prior to this.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Late Movie 18: The Strangler (1979)
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Forgotten Thriller
This low budget effort with Victor Buono ought to be some sort of cult classic but somehow has fallen off the radar. While not quite a proto-slasher, the film's protagonist has several of the tropes that distinguish the genre: psycho-sexual disfunction with an Oedipal basis; social awkwardness/sexual frustration with the opposite sex, and a kinky fetish, this time out for carnival-prize dolls. No blood or gore (that's why the film is called "The Strangler" instead of "The Slasher"), but there is an approach to the sexual element of what Buono's character does that must have been daring at the time: Buono's climaxing as he undresses one of the dolls he won at the arcade is no less shocking for the fact that we only see his reaction in close up from the neck up. There's also a police procedural element that gives the hint of a giallo, although the film hardly suggests that genre in style or design. An intriguing character study of a disturbed individual operating in broad daylight that deserves a bigger audience than it has.
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- The Boston Strangler
- Filming locations
- West 3rd Street and South Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA(police car turns the corner at night by the Town and Country shopping center)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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