The Boston Strangler (film) journalism and movie technique, and yet—through certain prurient options that it does not take—it is not quite the popular exploitation film that one might think. It is as though someone had gone out to do a serious piece of reporting and come up with 4,000 clippings from a sensationalist tabloid. It has no depth, no timing, no facts of any interest and yet, without any hesitation, it uses the name and pretends to report the story of a living man, who was neither convicted nor indicted for the crimes it ascribes to him. Tony Curtis 'stars'—the program credits word—as what
Night of the Strangler "out of focus cinematography", but generally praised the acting and found the racial themes remained relevant in 2015. Refn included the controversial "Is the Father Black Enough?" film poster in "The Art of Seeing", his coffee table book collection of the art of exploitation cinema. In July 1983, the British pre-certification video distributor Cinema Indoors released the film (as "Vengeance is Mine") on VHS and Betamax. The film preservation and distribution company Vinegar Syndrome restored a print of the film held by the American Genre Film Archive and released it (as "Night of the Strangler") on DVD. Night of the