Strait-Jacket

There are like four decapitations in this movie and the most shocking moment is when Joan lights a match on a record while it’s playing

Merkin Muffley

lucy harbin took an axe gave her husband 40 wacks when she saw what she had done  she gave his girlfriend 41

Christina

When you sit down to watch this, you expect to be sidetracked, perhaps even gripped, but not undermined. However, the picture subverts you in a number of subtle and strong ways. It's a horror story, but it frequently collides with sporadically humorous camp, leaving it with…

Dylan

William Castle was a great and empathetic director of actors. He knew how to manifest truly great performances from them, how to arrange them on their marks, how to film shifts of emotion as they crossed a person's face, how to array these faces in a composition over time.…

nathaxnne [goodbye <3]

Joan Crawford iconically plays opposite an axe in this punchy psychological drama. That wig was a dramatic choice.

Kylo

Maybe a farm isn't the best place for someone who needs to not think about death or be around axes. I love that the dark humor always punched (or chopped I guess) up: cheatin' husbands, judgey doctors, snobby upper crusties. The movie's sympathy is ultimately with the…

laird

Almost subversive in the way that Crawford brings legitimate pathos and audience sympathy for a character who is most certainly insane. It's pretty obvious from the Castle/Bloch pedigree that there's going to be a twist, I almost kind of wish there wasn't -- I love her…

Liz

Lucy Harbin (Joan Crawford) kills two people with an axe in a jealous rage while her young daughter watches. She is confined to an institution for twenty years. Upon her release, she is taken in by her now adult daughter Carol (Diane Baker). Is her mother one tantrum away…

David Whitman

"Oh, you and your milk." All-time greatest studio logo gag in film history. I haven't seen every movie ever made but I've seen enough.

Branson Reese