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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  The Boston Strangler (1968)
Not sure what i thought of this. After seeing director Richard Fleischer's excellent and similarly themed 10 Rillington Place (1971) last Christmas i was expecting a lot from this but i was a little underwhelmed and felt it was a movie that lacked any edge of the seat moments.
For a film populated by some classy actors such as Henry Fonda and George Kennedy it never really pulled me in. It's certainly watchable and Tony Curtis proves he can act the serious stuff as serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, but Fleischer never really allowed it to get seedy, especially as it holds an 18 certificate to this day here in the UK. The aforementioned 10 Rillington Place was a far more affecting and chilling film and British serial killer John Christie didn't murder and sexually violate women with foreign objects in that one.
I'll also mention that the film has some quite bizarre uses of split screen photography throughout. |
It's an odd beast. I was quite gripped the last time I watched it, but was watching a lot giallo at the time ....