Strait-Jacket
WARNING! 'Strait-Jacket' vividly depicts ax murders!
ThrillerHorrorDramaparent child relationshipasylumaxe murdermother daughter reunionproto-slashermother daughter relationshiphagsploitationaxpsycho-biddy
A tense psychological thriller built on family suspicion and the question of maternal culpability, anchored by the unsettling reunion between a released asylum patient and her daughter.
After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
Essence
Ensemble
Joan Crawford
Lucy Harbin
Diane Baker
Carol Harbin
Leif Erickson
Bill Cutler
Howard St. John
Raymond Fields
John Anthony Hayes
Michael Fields
Rochelle Hudson
Emily Cutler
George Kennedy
Leo Krause
Edith Atwater
Mrs. Fields
Mitchell Cox
Dr. Anderson
Lee Majors
Frank Harbin (uncredited)
Patricia Crest
Stella Fulton (uncredited)
Vicki Cos
Carol Harbin - Age 3 (uncredited)
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