{"id":33407,"date":"2023-08-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33407"},"modified":"2023-11-03T06:21:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T10:21:52","slug":"the-haunted-strangler-1958-starring-boris-karloff-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33407","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Haunted Strangler&#8221;\u00a0(1958) starring Boris Karloff \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z080323zview_hauntedstrangler.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"765\" \/><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><b>The Haunted Strangler<\/b>\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">(1958)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Robert Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>John Croydon <\/strong>(as &#8220;<strong>John C. Cooper<\/strong>&#8220;), <strong>Jan Read <\/strong>based on an original story by <strong>Jan Read<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:<strong> Boris Karloff, Anthony Dawson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Their wild beauty marked them for death by . . . The Haunted Strangler<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">James Rankin (Karloff) believes that when the serial killer known as The Haymarket Strangler was executed, they hung the wrong guy. In his efforts to clear the man, Rankin comes into possession of the murder weapon.\u00a0 As he holds the knife Rankin is compelled to kill&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To give you an idea of the quality of this one, in order to show Karloff&#8217;s transformation from kind old man to sadistic killer, he simply took out his lower dentures and sucked his bottom lip up to show his upper teeth.<\/p>\n<p>For Karloff completists only.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><em style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><b>The Haunted Strangler<\/b>\u00a0<\/em>(1994) rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z080323zview_hauntedstrangler2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Haunted Strangler\u00a0(1958) Director: Robert Day Screenplay: John Croydon (as &#8220;John C. 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