Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?
Acting
Carradine's velvet menace—he's scary because he believes his own lies.
Direction
Ulmer squeezes Expressionist shadows from pennies and plywood.
Cinematography
Murder scenes shot like twisted paintings—beauty in the grotesque.
Director
Edgar G. Ulmer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ulmer shot this in six days for PRC, the 'Poverty Row' studio where genius went to die fast and cheap.
Carradine based Gaston's mannerisms on a real Parisian painter he knew—charm as camouflage for rot.
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