This movie was made in 1976, released in 1978 in theaters as The Astral Factor but then released on VHS in 1984 as The Invisible Strangler missing the killer's killer's dialogue but gaining new music and some new scenes. Why? Who knows!
It's pretty confusing because in The Invisible Strangler, the killer is invisible for the entire movie. All of these scenes were completely reshot with a different cast. There are a lot of plot holes, as you can imagine, that you can fill in with the full movie.
Roger Sands (Frank Ashmore) has been in a sanitarium after killing his mother. While there, he's learned how to meditate and make himself invisible. He walks out and starts killing again.
The original material was directed by Arthur C. Pierce, who made Dimension 5, and the new scenes are by John Florea, who mostly directed a lot of TV. There's also some scenes directed by Gene Fowler Jr., who worked often as an editor and also directed I Married A Monster from Outer Space. Pierce and Earle Lyon wrote the script.
I have no idea why more people aren't talking about this movie. Sure, it's shot like a lower tier TV movie, but then the murder scenes look like the covers of sleazy old black and white true crime magazines, the kind that felt dirtier than real porn. It also has an absolutely stacked cast, including Stefanie Powers as a cop's wife who always talks about herself in the third person, Sue Lyon (Murder In the Blue World, Evel Knievel, Lolita), Leslie Parrish (The Giant Spider Invasion), trailer voice Percy Rodrigues, Marianna Hill (do I even need to go on?) and Elke Sommer, who amazingly plays an acoustic version of Leadbelly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" in this film.
What? How has no one brought this up in a single review and instead just talks about how boring it is? Did I watch the same movie as them? I mean, the killer's mom was an actress who pretended that he didn't exist which makes him turn into a killer invisible man. It's not well made, but the ideas are there.
It's pretty confusing because in The Invisible Strangler, the killer is invisible for the entire movie. All of these scenes were completely reshot with a different cast. There are a lot of plot holes, as you can imagine, that you can fill in with the full movie.
Roger Sands (Frank Ashmore) has been in a sanitarium after killing his mother. While there, he's learned how to meditate and make himself invisible. He walks out and starts killing again.
The original material was directed by Arthur C. Pierce, who made Dimension 5, and the new scenes are by John Florea, who mostly directed a lot of TV. There's also some scenes directed by Gene Fowler Jr., who worked often as an editor and also directed I Married A Monster from Outer Space. Pierce and Earle Lyon wrote the script.
I have no idea why more people aren't talking about this movie. Sure, it's shot like a lower tier TV movie, but then the murder scenes look like the covers of sleazy old black and white true crime magazines, the kind that felt dirtier than real porn. It also has an absolutely stacked cast, including Stefanie Powers as a cop's wife who always talks about herself in the third person, Sue Lyon (Murder In the Blue World, Evel Knievel, Lolita), Leslie Parrish (The Giant Spider Invasion), trailer voice Percy Rodrigues, Marianna Hill (do I even need to go on?) and Elke Sommer, who amazingly plays an acoustic version of Leadbelly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" in this film.
What? How has no one brought this up in a single review and instead just talks about how boring it is? Did I watch the same movie as them? I mean, the killer's mom was an actress who pretended that he didn't exist which makes him turn into a killer invisible man. It's not well made, but the ideas are there.