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4 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaThe New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaIt’s like “Peeping Tom” meets one of Dario Argento’s giallo joints, but slathered in a coat of melancholic malaise.
- 75Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardThis 1970 psychological thriller was Paul Vecchiali’s self-conscious attempt during the waning years of the Nouvelle Vague to take the movement’s genre-defying sensibilities in a new direction.
- 75RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyThe sensibility behind “The Strangler” is sufficiently unusual and stalwart.
- 67Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerAustin ChronicleRichard WhittakerThe Strangler has been called a slasher, but it is not. It has been called a giallo, an anti-giallo, and even a revisionist giallo. But it is none of those things. Paul Vecchiali's newly restored 1970 crime flick is, instead, a meditation that crawled onto the Left Bank of post-war French philosophical ruminations.