GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

ScoobyMint Disappointment for a huge fan!

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOIERS*** German director Frank Wisbar's re-make of his classic 1936 German ghost story "Death of a Meiden" does the best of the meager budget it had making one of the best of the bargain basement studio PRC's releases. It was after ferryman Douglas, Charles Middleton, was falsely convicted of murder of local yokel Mr. Berkeley and hanged for the crime that his ghost started to appear in the swamp strangling those and their family members responsible for his death. It's when Maria Hart, Rosermary La Planche, the granddaughter of the man who murdered Berkeley Joseph Hart, Frank Conlan,and framed Douglas for it shown up looking for a job as the local ferry skipper. It's then that she fell in love with the judge Christian Sanders-Robert Barratt's-who sentenced Douglas to death-son Chris Jr, Blake Edwards,who like herself were on Douglas's hit-list.Spooky and atmospheric film a lot like the Val Lawton movies classics like "Cat People" & "The Leopard Man" made around the same time that shocked their audience with off the screen and imaginary horrors that leave them to those that are watching imagination. Even though he already strangled the person responsible for him being executed, Joseph Hart, Douglas would only be satisfied if everyone's, Hart the judge & jury, family members innocent or not got the same treatment from him. It's when Chris Jr was near death from pneumonia, in almost drowning in the swamp, that Maria in an effort to save his life offered herself up to the vengeful Douglas as a human sacrifice in order to save his life.****SPOILERS**** This unselfish act by Maria knocked some sense and humanity into Douglas' heart who came to realize that his acts of vengeance have gone a wee bit too far and ended up killing many innocent people who had really nothing to do with his untimely death.It was Maria in proving her love for Chris Jr. and willing to die for it that saved both his as well as, in being targeted by Douglas, her lives as well as proving the saying that "Love conquers all" even in the case when certain death comes knocking at one's door.

zee Shockingly well-acted hillbilly noir ghost story. Plot: a wrongfully hanged man is out for vengeance.The poor filmmakers had a postage-stamp-sized stage to work with, and a smoke machine that doesn't quite disguise how small it is. About half of the action takes place on a cable ferry. The opening scene is a bit of a puzzler, in which three grizzled hill women take the ferry out, and back, for no reason other than to deliver some exposition to someone who already knows what they're telling him.But part of its charm is how much respect the film shows for the people, including two young people who have tried the city, lost their accents, got some extra education, and yet realize they belong back home. Some of the details are well-realized, like the inventorying of a poor man's clothing and the prayer scene at the open-air chapel.There's a Christian story, here, too. I'm not Christian but was not offended by it. People who are might like that part of it a good deal.

Chris Gaskin Strangler of the Swamp was made by low budget studio PRC and is certainly one of their best movies I've seen.A man who was hanged for a murder he didn't commit returns as a ghost for revenge on the people who accused him. He uses a rope to strangle his victims and after several deaths, including the old man who operates the ferry across the swamp, he disappears. The old man's granddaughter takes over the ferry herself and also falls in love with one of the local men and they decide to get married.This movie has plenty of foggy atmospheres, which makes it very creepy too.The cast includes Rosemary La Planche, Blake Edwards and Charles Middleton (Flash Gordon) as the Strangler.Strangler of the Swamp is a must for old horror fans like myself. Excellent.Rating: 3 and a half stars out of 5.

metaphor-2 Although I have not seen this film for many years, I remember it's rich atmosphere quite well. I saw it in a class taught by an eminent film historian and collector, the late William K. Everson, who showed it as an example of movies made with only one set.It's also got a richer-than-usual part for Charles Middleton, a character-actor (mostly remembered as Ming the Merciless in FLASH GORDON) with a wonderful presence.