For those who havent seen the film, lucy harbin joan crawford has been in an asylum for. I also want to second homicidal which completely blows strait jacket away in terms of awesomeness and you even get william knitting at the beginning. The straightjacket serves as a semiboss near the final portion of alchemilla hospital before travis grady obtains the first piece of the flauros and, like the nurses, are capable of using a grappling move. He may not be as well known by movie audiences today as he was. Manga entertainment to release strait jacket jul 2, 2007 anime expo. Strait jacket is one of the more notable examples of the genre sometimes referred to as psychobiddy or grande dame guignol. With the perfect combination of camp, horror, humor and gore, william castle always put on a good show. I loved straitjacket, one of castles best and if anyone wants to see it and has turner classic movies, its on later this month. Strait jacket 2004 though still mentally shaky, convicted axemurderess lucy harbin joan crawford is released from the asylum where she was sent 20 years ago for slaying her unfaithful husband. The screenplay was the first of two written for castle by robert bloch, the second being the night walker 1964. Once the wearer slides their arms into the sleeves, the person assisting the wearer crosses the sleeves against the chest and ties the ends of the sleeves to the back of the jacket, ensuring the.
Greatest movie plot twists, spoilers and surprise endings. Lee majors in the uncredited role of crawfords husband. Movies like strait jacket if you like strait jacket you are looking for psychological, suspenseful and scary movies about with murder, mental illness, farm, mentally unstable, axe, mother daughter relationship and bracelet themes of drama, horror and thriller genre shot in usa. Watch straitjacket online 1080p straitjacket is one of best movie released on 19 january 1964 starring joan crawford, diane baker, leif erickson, howard st. Straitjacket is a 1964 american horrorthriller film starring joan crawford and diane baker in a. Still mine earns points simply for being a welcome respite in a summer movie season that is extremely loud and incredibly gauche. There is diane, above, in the original, ranting and beating the sculpted mask of her mothers face. Movies like straitjacket if you like straitjacket you are looking for psychological, suspenseful and scary movies about with murder, mental illness, farm, mentally unstable, axe, mother daughter relationship and bracelet themes of drama, horror and thriller genre shot in usa. William castle was a man with a plan, and when he didnt have a plan, he at least had a gimmick.
He also knew how to center a star within a scene and within a movie, that all drama is built momentbymoment, and he proved time and again a morethanable matchmaker for these necessary elements. The twist ending is one of the most obvious ever put on film, but crawfords campy histrionics and some neat stylistic flourishes make this worthy entertainment. At the end when lucys daughter carol, who was the one doing all of the murders is committed to an insane asylum, lucy. The columbia pictures logo at the end of the closing credits has the torch ladys. At the end when lucys daughter carol, who was the one doing all of the murders is committed to an insane asylum, lucy says she must go stay with her because carol needs her. He was sometimes referred to as the poor mans hitchcock and that moniker bears some weight in that castle, like hitchcock, often appeared in trailers of his own movies. Straight jacket 2004 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Film titleyear and plot twistspoilersurprise ending description. It was published in 11 volumes between 2000 and 2010. Or maybe a crawford lookalike tied up in a strait jacket screaming her lungs out running around the theater at various intervals in the film. An actor trying to keep the truth about his love life under wraps discovers feelings he doesnt want to hide in this frothy comedy.
Straitjacket is a 1964 film about a mother who returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior. The ending of straitjacket involves a gimmicky twist that was the hallmark of director william castles psychological thrillers like homicidal 1961 and the nightwalker 1965. I also want to second homicidal which completely blows straitjacket away in terms of awesomeness and you even get william knitting at the beginning. Strait jacket, sutoreito jaketto is a light novel series by ichiro sakaki with illustrations by yo fujishiro, published by fujimi shobo under their fujimi fantasia bunko imprint. As we all know or should know, joan crawford plays lucy harbin, an axemurderess released from an insane asylum after twenty years. Find out more with myanimelist, the worlds most active online anime and manga community and database. Watch straitjacket movie trailers, exclusive videos, interviews from the cast, movie clips and more at. They used to be human beings, but they had overused forbidden power, magic, to turn into monsters. With joan crawford, diane baker, leif erickson, howard st. My sis and i had an evening free and picked a movie to watch together at random. Oct 06, 2008 i loved strait jacket, one of castles best and if anyone wants to see it and has turner classic movies, its on later this month. Straitjacket is missing a lot of the loveable, goofy charm that the others have in buckets. May 25, 2007 bravura performance from the great diane baker. He never thought that he would initiate a genre unto itself, by the name of hagsplotation or the grand guignol cinema.
Straitjacket is one of the more notable examples of the genre sometimes referred to as psychobiddy or grande dame guignol. Here is a film about real grownups, that is anything but fast although its true story is calculated to make you furious, and whose main character, craig morrison, is the real iron man, or more accurately, ironwilled man. May 10, 2017 strait jacket is one of the more notable examples of the genre sometimes referred to as psychobiddy or grande dame guignol. The story is clever enough to keep you watching, and the ending sequence is crazy enough to worth sitting through the movieif nothing else watch it for crawford. This week, we tackle the absolutely bonkers william castle classic, straitjacket. Leif erickson and rochelle hudson in straitjacket 1964 edith atwater and. A straitjacket is a garment shaped like a jacket with long sleeves that surpass the tips of the wearers fingers. Arguably william castles most professionally made film of the ones ive seen, anyway, which is perhaps why it is also his highest rated.
For those who havent seen the film, lucy harbin joan crawford has been in an asylum for 20 years after axing her husband lee majors and his lover. Looking for information on the anime strait jacket. The strange thing is, that without crawford taking every scene over the edge in the first 5 seconds, straitjacket would be as dull as homicidal. User recommendations about the anime strait jacket on myanimelist, the internets largest anime database. Straitjacket is a 1964 american horrorthriller film starring joan crawford and diane baker in a macabre mother and daughter tale about a series of axemurders. Straitjacket definition of straitjacket by merriamwebster. Jul 14, 2016 watch straitjacket online 1080p straitjacket is one of best movie released on 19 january 1964 starring joan crawford, diane baker, leif erickson, howard st.
The films plot makes use of the psychological abuse method known as gaslighting. Strait jacket is a 1964 american horrorthriller film starring joan crawford and diane baker in a macabre mother and daughter tale about a series of axemurders. Welcome back to another edition of horror in black and white. Perhaps the main flaw for straitjacket, i think, is that the main plot is almost. Straitjacket by william castle joan crawford, diane. This movie directed by william castle whom known as an famous movie director and have directed many interesting movies with great story telling. Warning do not watch battle axe unless you have seen the movie first because it gives away a very important plot point.
Surprise shock ending from strait jacket, recreated by hella. Rayotte steinberg, a lone wolf tactical sorcerist, fights against monsters. Straitjacket is a 1964 american horror thriller film starring joan crawford and diane baker in a macabre mother and daughter. Straightjackets are shambling creatures wrapped in flesh that appear in silent hill. As a horror film, as a camp classic, and a great vehicle for joan crawford, as a guilty pleasure, and as a fun saturday afternoon popcorn movie. Straitjacket 2004 though still mentally shaky, convicted axemurderess lucy harbin joan crawford is released from the asylum where she was sent 20 years ago for slaying her unfaithful husband. The ending impresses less like a twist reveal, and more like shoddy writing cribbing theatrics and thematic elements from previous, far more competent works. Its the mid50s, and guy stone matt letscher is a very. The series was adapted into a 3episode original video animation series in 2007. Nov 26, 2007 user recommendations about the anime strait jacket on myanimelist, the internets largest anime database. Straitjacket 1964 tuesdays overlooked film tipping my fedora. After a twentyyear stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior. The recommendation service has sorted out cult film, suspenseful, realistic, melancholic, humorous and serious films and tv shows about with strait jacket, murder, death, blood, female nudity, doctor, violence, hospital, brutality and friendship plots mostly in comedy, drama and thriller genres shot.
The list contains the best, new and most relevant strait jacket movies ordered by relevance. Film legend joan crawford gives a terrific performance in this chiller from pioneer horror movie producer william castle. Also, while this films ending may come as a surprising twist, it hardly has the satisfying payoff that straitjacket managed to pull off. Straitjacket definition is a cover or overgarment of strong material such as canvas used to bind the body and especially the arms closely in restraining a violent prisoner or patient.
When an ending scene gave too much attention to bakers character, she quietly used her influence to return the focus back to lucy, where it belonged. William castle was the king of lowbudget b movie horror flick. Straitjacket 1964 film locations geek field guides. Strait jacket is a movie that has to be seen to believed. During the films original release, moviegoers were given little. Its most typical use is restraining people who may cause harm to themselves or others. Or maybe a crawford lookalike tied up in a straitjacket screaming her lungs out running around the theater at various intervals in the film. The jacket 2005 as a result of jacks time travels from 1992 to 2007 while wearing a straitjacket, he altered the future. One of the interesting things about this film, and it is not a spoiler, is that while a note of possible ambiguity is introduced for the alert viewer, we. Strait jacket is a 1964 film about a mother who returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior. Nov 26, 2007 looking for information on the anime strait jacket. As for the bluray disc, it is lacking in several ways.
However, i still prefer his earlier works because of their amateurish nature. Discover the growing collection of high quality most relevant xxx movies and clips. Without giving the plot away, ill just say that this is kind of like lizzie borden with a twist, and after lucy is released a series of heads. Rodney dangerfield at his best on the tonight show starring johnny carson 1983 duration. He may not be as well known by movie audiences today as he was in the late 50s and 60s, but his work is truly one of a kind. That the final reveal and codemandated ending is so absurd and done with the biggest. When fnow users make a purchase with their mastercards. Released by columbia pictures, the film was directed and produced by william castle, and coproduced by dona holloway. Browse through our impressive selection of porn videos in hd quality on any device you own.
Dec, 2018 also, while this films ending may come as a surprising twist, it hardly has the satisfying payoff that straitjacket managed to pull off. By the end of the film, blanche joan crawford makes a confession which details her own complicity in the whole affair. Just when it seems as though her hysterical extremes as lucy harbin have to be a big puton, it becomes obvious that joan is playing it perfectly straight. William castle was the king of lowbudget bmovie horror flick. Of course, crawford made sure to employ her role as the spokeswoman of pepsi in the film, inserting sixpacks of pepsi throughout the film. He saved jackies mother jean from death, and daughter jackie from living a. Strait jacket, for the record, is not a selfcontained animated feature film.
Straitjacket also benefits from vigorous direction by william castle, who stages the films murder scenes with gruesome elan and works in some sly moments of humor to keep the melodramatic plot from becoming overripe. Straitjacket is a movie that has to be seen to believed. If you love the straitjacket ending as much as i do, you have got to see this parody. Its just an ova that mines the original source material, an ongoing light novel series by ichiro sakaki scrapped. William castles straitjacket, starring joan crawford, falls in this category. I enjoy this film for many reasons, including how it captures riverside, california in the 1960s. If you love the straitjacket ending as much as i do. Mainly because the performance by joan crawford is practically beyond description.
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