Strait-Jacket (1964) is a Columbia Pictures feature film starring Joan Crawford and Diane Baker in a macabre mother and daughter tale about a series of axe-murders. The screenplay was written by Robert Bloch. The film was directed and produced by William Castle, and co-produced by Dona Holloway. Strait-Jacket marks the first big-screen appearance of Lee Majors in the uncredited role of Crawford's husband.
After the phenomenal success of What Ever...
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Strait-Jacket (1964) is a Columbia Pictures feature film starring Joan Crawford and Diane Baker in a macabre mother and daughter tale about a series of axe-murders. The screenplay was written by Robert Bloch. The film was directed and produced by William Castle, and co-produced by Dona Holloway. Strait-Jacket marks the first big-screen appearance of Lee Majors in the uncredited role of Crawford's husband.
After the phenomenal success of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Joan Crawford and other actresses, including Bette Davis and Barbara Stanwyck, made numerous horror movies throughout the 1960s. Strait-Jacket is one of the more notable examples of the genre sometimes referred to as psycho-biddy or Grande Dame Guignol. When the film opened, moviegoers were given little cardboard axes.
After a 20-year stint in a psychiatric hospital for the decapitation axe-murder of her philandering husband, Lucy Harbin takes up residence at the farm of her brother Bill Cutler and sister-in-law...
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