Pluskylang Great Film overall

GazerRise Fantastic!

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Jordon Palumbo The Brighton Strangler does not set out to achieve anything in arduous storytelling, but rather is a cheeky tale that lives in Golden Age "B" movie heaven. Reginald Parker (John Loder) is the lead stage actor in a play called The Brighton Strangler. He has performed the play hundreds of times and has decided he wants to move on because he's played the "Strangler" character for so long. After his final show as the killer, a German blitz bombs the theater almost killing Parker. He is left with a head wound that bungles his mind, leading him to believe he actually is Edward Grey, or The Brighton Strangler. He is then doomed to "act" out his play with innocent people.While the concept is an amusing one and the imagery has some fantastic moments of long stark shadows and hands feeling the rope of a noose, John Loder's performance is just about the most lackluster acting I have ever seen. Everything about him is wooden: his expressions, his tone, and even his posture! It does, however, add to the fun of it all because he looks so silly doing it.Throughout the film there is not really an antagonist opposite of Parker. There is also no suspense drawn from other characters because each victim doesn't figure out what is happening. Parker just tells them what he is going to do. The only person who figures out that something is wrong and then acts upon it doesn't do so until about 10 minutes before the end, probably even less. There is no chase or tension throughout story.While very flawed, The Brighton Strangler is a good fun film that does not try to go beyond its identity. It's a quick easy watch at only 67 minutes. Check it out if you are a fan of old-fashioned pulpy thrillers.Also June Duprez's eyes on the poster are hilarious.

Spikeopath During WW II as one of the Luftwafte air raids hits London, Reginald Parker, a successful actor, is knocked out and heavily concussed. Upon awaking he believes himself to be Edward Grey, the notorious Brighton Strangler he has been portraying on the stage!Clocking in at just 67 minutes, The Brighton Strangler just about has enough time to get in and do it's job excellently. Something of an under seen gem, it's a film that has enough creepy menace about it to reward the black and white thriller fan. Boasting excellent sets, some very neat camera work from director Max Nosseck and a fabulous lead performance from John Loder, I personally feel that it deserves to be seen by more people. Typically it's a picture that rarely gets aired on British TV, and when it does it's sadly tucked away on BBC 2 at some ungodly hour in the AM. Until film's like this get decent exposure from our TV schedulers then they are going to remain criminally under seen. So keep your eyes out for this one, the formula may now be seen as old hat, but transport yourself back to 1945, out in the London smog and be wary of that hatted man coming towards you.........8/10

Chris Gaskin The Brighton Strangler is another movie that BBC2 shown in the early hours over Christmas/New Year 2005-06 and I was certainly glad I taped this.An actor who plays the part of The Brighton Strangler in the play of the same name is knocked unconscious by rubble during an air raid and has a memory lapse. When he wakes up, he thinks he is in the play and heads for Brighton instead of Canterbury, where he is meant to go. In Brighton, he starts strangling people including the Mayor and Chief Inspector. Police catch up with him in the end and realise what's happened to him.The Brighton Strangler is rather eerie in parts, especially the nighttime scenes.The cast includes John Loder in the title role and Jane Duprez, Ian Wolfe.Watch this if you get the chance. Very eerie and obscure little movie.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.

pyamada Though the film is sometimes hard to take, and had flimsy scenes, Loder is great as the actor overcome by shock, who becomes the character he was portraying on stage, a maniacal strangler! Certainly worth seeing on TV, since it does note seem available on video. And try to catch some of Nosseck's other flics, as he was in interesting german director, and handled noir well, especially with Lawrence Tierney.