About This Film
A writer investigating the execution of a serial killer known as "The Haymarket Strangler" 20 years previously begins to suspect that the wrong man might have been hanged. However, when he picks up a scalpel used by the murderer, he finds himself possessed by the killer's spirit and begins committing similar murders.
Film Details
Director
Robert Day
Writers
Jan Read, John Croydon
Keywords
Murder
Psychotronic Film
Serial Killer
Doctor
Husband Wife Relationship
Knife
Investigation
Insanity
Fire
Strangulation
Prison
Cemetery
Serial Murder
Whipping
Nurse
Coffin
Possession
Evil Man
Skeleton
Obsession
Grave
Reporter
Mental Illness
Rat
Fainting
Hanging
Dead Woman With Eyes Open
Newspaper
Prisoner
Broken Glass
Police Inspector
Scalpel
Song
Scene Of The Crime
Bribe
Woman Strangled To Death
Guard
Learning The Truth
Four Word Title
Amnesia
Corrupt Cop
Burial
Asylum
Noose
Escaped Psychiatric Patient
Shovel
Killer On The Loose
Metamorphosis
Schizophrenia
Husband Murders His Wife
Straitjacket
Stabbed With A Knife
Uxoricide
Exhumation
Evidence
Drunk
Death Penalty
Hanged To Death
Split Personality
Unjust Incarceration
Jumping Through A Window
Paralysis
Murder Of Wife
Knitting
Public Execution
One Armed Man
Cabaret
Strangler
Asylum Inmate
Spectator
Investigative Journalist
Padded Cell
Year 1860
Dancing Girl
Exhuming A Body
Partial Paralysis
Cancan Dancer
Escaped Lunatic
Bloodhound
Execution Of An Innocent Man
Compulsion To Kill
Committed To An Asylum
Cancan
Quicklime
Newgate Prison
Gallows
Chorus Girl
Backstage
Worried Wife
Escape From An Asylum
Peeling Potatoes
Father Daughter Love
Public Hanging
Lashing
Temporary Paralysis
Fugue State
Psychogenic Fugue
Dissociative Personalities
New Life
Serial Killer On The Loose
Potato
Also Known As
The Haunted Strangler, Original title: Grip of the Strangler