I’m logging my Monster Movie Month © viewing with ultra-mini
reviews at the end of every week this October. I write it. You read it. No one
needs to get hurt.
Straight Jacket (1964-
dir. William Castle) ***
This is a minor William Castle shocker, but Joan Crawford
makes her presence felt as a woman trying to put her life back together after a
long stint in an asylum for offing her husband with a wire hanger an
axe. The twist is so-so, but getting the chance to see Crawford ham it up in a
Castle picture is enough. The picture loses half a point because Castle never
actually appears on screen to charm us with a schlocky gimmick while sucking on
a giant cigar.
October 13
It Follows (2014-
dir. David Robert Mitchell) ****½
