Boris Karloff

Jean Kent

Elizabeth Allan

Anthony Dawson

Vera Day

Tim Turner

Diane Aubrey

Max Brimmell

Leslie Perrins

Jessica Cairns

Dorothy Gordon

Desmond Roberts

Roy Russell

Derek Birch

Peggy Ann Clifford

John Fabian

Joan Elvin

Audrey Sykes

Marie Devereux

John Croydon

Jan Read

Robert Day

Richard Gordon

Buxton Orr

Peter Mayhew

Lionel Banes

John Elphick

Jim Hydes

Ronald Kinnoch

Barbara Barnard

Douglas Hickox

Hazel Swift

Leo Rogers

Les Bowie

Anna Duse

Frederic Lewis

Terry Poulton

H.C. Pearson

Horror

Crime

Mystery

Thriller

Grip of the Strangler

Amalgamated Productions

United Kingdom

English

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

Grip of the Strangler | 1958 | Theatrical Trailer

Grip of the Strangler

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