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Lo strangolatore di Vienna (1971)
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May 1974 (USA)
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Meat is Meat, But This Sausage is Special! more
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After being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life...
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Butcher
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Female Nudity
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Macabre black comedy with Victor Buono in fine form as a Sweeney Todd-type Austrian butcher.
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Victor Buono | ... | Otto Lehman |
 | Brad Harris | ... | Mike Lawrence |
| Franca Polesello | ... | Hanna Lehman |
| Karin Field | ... | Berta (as Karen Field) |
| Carl Stearns | ||
| Sybil Martin | ||
| Michael Turner | ||
| Arthur Mann | ||
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Tina Buranzo | (as Tina Buronzo) | |
| Hansi Linder | ||
| Dario Michaelis | ||
| Dino Peretti | ||
| Giacomo Pergola | ||
| Luca Sportelli | ||
| Claudio Trionfi | ||
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Der Würger kommt auf leisen Socken (West Germany)
Meat Is Meat
The Mad Butcher
The Mad Butcher of Vienna
The Strangler of Vienna
The Vienna Strangler
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Meat Is Meat
The Mad Butcher
The Mad Butcher of Vienna
The Strangler of Vienna
The Vienna Strangler
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83 min | UK:84 min | USA:81 min
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Edited into Extra Weird (2003) (V)
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Odd blend of black humour and gruesomeness featuring a good, over-the-top performance from Buono, whose bulk and mild manner make for an effective psychopath.
The story is a Sweeney Todd rehash that catches the sinister aspects, while retaining the comic elements and being relatively gore-free.
Otto Lehman is shown to be sexually inadequate and belittled by his wife, resorting to voyeurism to satisfy his desires as he spies on a woman across the street. His frustrations trigger his aggression, while the butcher theme is used as a means of disposing of bodies, but isn't the motive for the killings.
Obvious similarities to 'Psycho' and 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'; also real-life German serial killers Fritz Haarman and Peter Kurten.
The film has enough to recommend it as an above average entry into the slasher genre, although the light hearted approach does tend to outweigh the horror elements too much.