This is the third and final part of an article series about female axe murderers in horror. Read part one here and part two here. In film and TV, swinging the mean end of an axe at polite society ...

After the surprise hit “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” resurrected her career, Joan Crawford followed up with “Strait-Jacket,” another thriller in which the middle-aged star acted cray-cray, this ...

Strait-Jacket could be summoned up as a chip off the old Bloch. Writer Robert Bloch's Psycho, that is. In crossing the basic plot design of that 1960 Bloch-buster with the instrument of murder (the ...

Enjoy another special screening night of William Castle's Strait-Jacket, complete with multi-sensory effects to bring this horror classic to life. After a 20-year stay at an asylum for a double murder ...

A new era is born.

All U.S. imports were put in a strait jacket last week. Starting July 2, practically nothing can be imported from anywhere without express authorization of the War Production Board. Primary and only ...

In a world where sorcery and science co-exist, the power of magic comes with a price: Humans who do not take proper precautions are transformed into horrific demons. Those who destroy these demons - ...

If the war on terror can be said to have a silver lining, it's that the United States has steered clear of conflict with China. Before 9/11 neoconservatives in ...

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