Strait-Jacket Blu-ray
'Strait-Jacket' Director: William Castle (1964) Indicator Blu-ray
Lucy Harbin spent twenty years in a psychiatric hospital after decapitating her husband and his lover with an axe – an act witnessed by her young daughter. On her release, Lucy moves in with her daughter and her husband, but a series of horrific axe murders suggest she may not be entirely cured...
Joan Crawford gives an astonishing performance in this a shocking psychological thriller infused with macabre humour, scripted by Robert Bloch.
Special features include:
- Audio commentary with film historians Lee Gambin and Emma Westwood
- Interviews with cast and crew
- Mirror Images (2018, 28 mins), new appreciation by Jonathan Rigby, author of American Gothic: Sixty Years of Horror Cinema
- Battle Axe: The Making of 'Strait-Jacket' (2007, 15 mins)
- Super 8 version: original cut-down home cinema presentation, with unique narration
- And more..