The Strangler

A chilling tale of obsession and madness unfolds in "The Strangler," a 1964 psychological thriller directed by Burt Topper and starring Victor Buono as Leo Kroll, an overweight lab technician driven to serial kill after years of emotional abuse from his mother. With a small budget and a talented cast, the film cleverly captures the eerie atmosphere of its subject matter, loosely inspired by the real-life Boston Strangler, as Kroll's fixation on his mother's control eventually turns deadly towards young female nurses and even those who unwittingly resemble them.