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Film legend Joan Crawford gives a terrific performance in this chiller from pioneer horror movie producer William Castle.
Crawford plays Lucy Harbin, a woman who goes berserk when she finds her husband in bed with another woman. With her three-year-old daughter accidentally witnessing the grisly act, Lucy axes the couple to death. She spends twenty years in a mental institution for the double murder.
After she is released, she moves in with her brother (Leif Erickson), his wife and her own daughter (Diane Baker), now twenty-three. Her nightmare is over…or is it? When a spate of ax murders start occurring suddenly in the neighborhood, police think Lucy has reverted to her old ways. The truth is finally revealed in a rousing, blood-chilling finale.
Special Features:
-Audio Commentary with Film Historians Steve Haberman, David J. Schow, and Constantine Nasr
-Joan Had Me Fired - An Interview with Anne Helm
-On the Road with Joan Crawford - An Interview with Publicist Richard Kahn
-Battle-Ax: The Making of Strait-Jacket
-Joan Crawford Costume and Makeup Tests
-Ax-Swinging Screen Test
-Theatrical Trailer
-Still Gallery