Teen-Age Strangler
A troubled teen with an undeserved criminal past is the suspect when young women start turning up around town dead and marked up with lipstick.
Why it matters
A grimy slice of early ‘60s juvenile delinquent horror that channels small-town paranoia through lurid noir-tinged sleaze.
- A raw, unpolished low-budget gem that captures that postwar American malaise before the slasher blueprint fully formed.
- Leads a parade of misunderstood teen suspects, turning adolescent anxiety into a tangible, bruising threat.
- Practical effects and makeup are rudimentary but effective in their unsettling simplicity—lipstick-stained corpses never looked so innocently sinister.
- For fans of regional drive-in horrors and proto-slasher curiosities that bleed into exploitation without shame.
Director
Cast
Horror DNA
Gore
14
Slow Burn
17
Psychological
14
Supernatural
0
Creature
0
Disturbing
0
Fun Factor
50
Cerebral
0
Survival
50
