The Strangler (1970)

Name: The Strangler (1970)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: November 15, 2023
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Eva Simonet, Hélène Surgère, Jacqueline Danno, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Pierre Miquel

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Altered Innocence | Release Date: November 15, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Eva Simonet, Hélène Surgère, Jacqueline Danno, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Pierre Miquel, Julien Guiomar, Katja Cavagnac, Nicole Courcel, Paul Barge, Sonia Saviange

Summary: Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile (Jacques Perrin), a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings. The detective (Julien Guiomar) assigned to track down the killer resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man. In one instance, he impersonates a psychologist on a TVUnhappy women are being murdered by Emile (Jacques Perrin), a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings. The detective (Julien Guiomar) assigned to track down the killer resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man. In one instance, he impersonates a psychologist on a TV show he and Emile appear on together and attempts to provoke Emile into revealing himself.… Expand

Director: Paul Vecchiali

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 96 min

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Beatrice Loayza

Nov 15, 2023

It’s like “Peeping Tom” meets one of Dario Argento’s giallo joints, but slathered in a coat of melancholic malaise. Read full review

Clayton Dillard

Nov 14, 2023

This 1970 psychological thriller was Paul Vecchiali’s self-conscious attempt during the waning years of the Nouvelle Vague to take the movement’s genre-defying sensibilities in a new direction. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Nov 17, 2023

The sensibility behind “The Strangler” is sufficiently unusual and stalwart. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Nov 15, 2023

The Strangler has been called a slasher, but it is not. It has been called a giallo, an anti-giallo, and even a revisionist giallo. But it is none of those things. Paul Vecchiali's newly restored 1970 crime flick is, instead, a meditation that crawled onto the Left Bank of post-war French philosophical ruminations. Read full review

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