Strait-Jacket
1964 · Movie · NR · 93 min · ★ 6.5 · 83% critics
After spending twenty years in an asylum for a brutal double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter. As she tries to settle back on the family farm, her unsettling behavior raises suspicions and new violence erupts.
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Details
- Years
- 1964
- Release date
- 1964-01-19
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Critic score
- 83/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (134 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy Strait-Jacket if you want a campy, suspenseful black-and-white thriller with strong star energy and plenty of axe-wielding terror; Not for you if you dislike psychological mystery setups like Dead Ringer or Homicidal.
Pros: Joan Crawford’s standout performance; tense axe murders; campy suspense | Cons: talky pacing; some plot holes; predictable elements
Themes
- parent child relationship
- asylum
- axe murder
- mother daughter reunion
- proto-slasher
- mother daughter relationship
- hagsploitation
- ax
- psycho-biddy
Cast & crew
Joan Crawford
as Lucy Harbin
Diane Baker
as Carol Harbin
Leif Erickson
as Bill Cutler
Howard St. John
as Raymond Fields
John Anthony Hayes
as Michael Fields
Rochelle Hudson
as Emily Cutler
George Kennedy
as Leo Krause
Edith Atwater
as Mrs. Fields
- MC
Mitchell Cox
as Dr. Anderson
Lee Majors
as Frank Harbin (uncredited)
Directed by William Castle