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
The Haunted Strangler film was shot in Walton Studios in Surrey. Karloff was paid $27,500 for four weeks, with an option to make a second film for Amalgamated. Executive producer Richard Gordon and interviewer Tom Weaver talk about the making of "The Haunted Strangler" on the audio commentary of the Criterion DVD, available as part of the 2007 set "Monsters and Madmen". According to MGM records this film and "Fiend Without a Face" together earned $350,000 in the US and Canada and $300,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit to the studio of $160,000. The Haunted Strangler The Haunted Strangler (also known as Grip