strait-jacket – Meaghan Walsh Gerard

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REVIEW: STRAIT-JACKET (1964)

March 1, 2009

Strait-Jacket is choppy, brazen and ragged. Out of place theremin music punctuates at odd moments – as if the sight of Crawford’s falling face, starkly lit, wielding an axe needed accentuating.