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Teen-Age Strangler
USA 1965
directed by Ben Parker
starring Bill Bloom, John Ensign, Rick Harris, Stacy Smith, John Humphries, Ron Ormond
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A mysterious killer is roaming small-town America, & he kills girls by strangling them with a nylon
stocking, then carving an X into their forehead. But who could be
the killer, onr of a gang of hot-rodders ? Nice boy Jimmy (John Ensign), who once had
a run-in with the law for stealing a bike, but he was actually only
covering his little brother ? Jimmy's little brother (John Humphries) ? Jimmy's nerdy
friend ? The local school's janitor ? Or even the snack-bar owner all
the local kids hang out in ? The police have certainly made their mind
up in focussing on Jimmy, not at all helped by the fact that he's caught
when trying to flee the town. But of course it wasn't him but ... well,
this time around it was the janitor (Ron Ormond, who as director gave
the world Mesa of Lost Women & Untamed Mistress), who was once a teacher but demoted
when he allegedly tried to rape a girl. Jimmy's girlfriend catches him
red-handed, though she almost pays for it with her life.
Conventional wisdom has it that Halloween started the slasher
movie cycle in 1978, being the first to be filmed according to the
slasher-formula. Know-it-alls however will point out that Bob Clark's
otherwise utterly unremarkabla Black Christmas did already apply
same formula in 1974. This movie however was filmed almost a decade
earlier & already it follows the same lines, & already the plot
seems pretty stale, so Teen-Age Strangler tries to spice up the
proceedings a bit by throwing in some hot-rodding - with moderate
success, though.
The film should still be interesting for slasher fans,
though what interesting might mean depends largely on your
interpretation of that word
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