Strait-Jacket (1964) at Academy Cinemas
Strait-Jacket (1964)
Playing as part of Academy's MARATHON OF MADNESS on Halloween Day, Sunday 31st of October! You can buy tickets to one, or as many titles as you want in the marathon - how many films will YOU be able to last?
Film legend Joan Crawford gives a terrific performance in this chiller from pioneer horror movie producer William Castle.
'Crawford plays Lucy Harbin, a woman who goes berserk when she finds her husband in bed with another woman. With her three-year-old daughter accidentally witnessing the grisly act, Lucy axes the couple to death. She spends twenty years in a mental institution for the double murder. After she is released, she moves in with her brother (Leif Erickson), his wife and her own daughter (Diane Baker), now twenty-three. Her nightmare is over…or is it? When a spate of ax murders start occurring suddenly in the neighbourhood, police think Lucy has reverted to her old ways. The truth is finally revealed in a rousing, blood-chilling finale.'
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Film legend Joan Crawford gives a terrific performance in this chiller from pioneer horror movie producer William Castle.
'Crawford plays Lucy Harbin, a woman who goes berserk when she finds her husband in bed with another woman. With her three-year-old daughter accidentally witnessing the grisly act, Lucy axes the couple to death. She spends twenty years in a mental institution for the double murder. After she is released, she moves in with her brother (Leif Erickson), his wife and her own daughter (Diane Baker), now twenty-three. Her nightmare is over…or is it? When a spate of ax murders start occurring suddenly in the neighbourhood, police think Lucy has reverted to her old ways. The truth is finally revealed in a rousing, blood-chilling finale.'
Playing as part of Academy's MARATHON OF MADNESS on Halloween Day, Sunday 31st of October! You can buy tickets to one, or as many titles as you want in the marathon - how many films will YOU be able to last?
Film legend Joan Crawford gives a terrific performance in this chiller from pioneer horror movie producer William Castle.
'Crawford plays Lucy Harbin, a woman who goes berserk when she finds her husband in bed with another woman. With her three-year-old daughter accidentally witnessing the grisly act, Lucy axes the couple to death. She spends twenty years in a mental institution for the double murder. After she is released, she moves in with her brother (Leif Erickson), his wife and her own daughter (Diane Baker), now twenty-three. Her nightmare is over…or is it? When a spate of ax murders start occurring suddenly in the neighbourhood, police think Lucy has reverted to her old ways. The truth is finally revealed in a rousing, blood-chilling finale.'
Film legend Joan Crawford gives a terrific performance in this chiller from pioneer horror movie producer William Castle.
'Crawford plays Lucy Harbin, a woman who goes berserk when she finds her husband in bed with another woman. With her three-year-old daughter accidentally witnessing the grisly act, Lucy axes the couple to death. She spends twenty years in a mental institution for the double murder. After she is released, she moves in with her brother (Leif Erickson), his wife and her own daughter (Diane Baker), now twenty-three. Her nightmare is over…or is it? When a spate of ax murders start occurring suddenly in the neighbourhood, police think Lucy has reverted to her old ways. The truth is finally revealed in a rousing, blood-chilling finale.'
Strait-Jacket (1964)
Playing as part of Academy's MARATHON OF MADNESS on Halloween Day, Sunday 31st of October! You can buy tickets to one, or as many titles as you want in the marathon - how many films will YOU be able to last?
Film legend Joan Crawford gives a terrific performance in this chiller from pioneer horror movie producer William Castle.
'Crawford plays Lucy Harbin, a woman who goes berserk when she finds her husband in bed with another woman. With her three-year-old daughter accidentally witnessing the grisly act, Lucy axes the couple to death. She spends twenty years in a mental institution for the double murder. After she is released, she moves in with her brother (Leif Erickson), his wife and her own daughter (Diane Baker), now twenty-three. Her nightmare is over…or is it? When a spate of ax murders start occurring suddenly in the neighbourhood, police think Lucy has reverted to her old ways. The truth is finally revealed in a rousing, blood-chilling finale.'
