The Strangler (1970)
Altered Innocence | Release Date: November 15, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 4 Critic Reviews
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The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaNov 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
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RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyNov 17, 2023
The sensibility behind “The Strangler” is sufficiently unusual and stalwart. Read full review
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Slant MagazineClayton DillardNov 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
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Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerNov 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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