Product Details

• Actors: Andrew Divoff, David Faustino
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Weinstein Company
• DVD Release Date: July 22, 2008
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0016MJ6EC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #180,059 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Boston Strangler" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

BOSTON STRANGLER - DVD Movie

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Far cry from Bud Bundy, January 18, 2009

By 

Ronald L. Ferrell Jr. "horrormetal fan" (McDermott,Ohio) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: The Boston Strangler (DVD)

I checked this out on Amazon's Marketplace page at a really low price.I'm surprised that I didn't see any reviews from any of the Horror site's.Although not a gore film It is a really good dramatic film.David Faustino as Albert DeSalvo is a far cry from the Bud Bundy Character that he played on t.v.And the fact that this is from the same guy who directed Chicago Massacre and has some of the same cast(Andrew Divoff,Corin Nemic)helps.

3.0 out of 5 stars NOT A SLASHER FILM, January 15, 2012

By 

Michael Ledo (Windsor, SC United States) - See all my reviews
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: The Boston Strangler (DVD)

I was expecting a slasher type of film from the DVD cover. Instead what I got was more akin to a historical drama. This is what we believe is the story of Albert De Salvo (David Faustino), the man who confessed to being the Boston Strangler. The film shows several women being strangled, but not really grindhouse style, more of a Hitchcock style. The accents were good. The acting and plot was decent, although the story just never grabbed me. There is no nudity and no graphic rape scenes, just disturbing strangling scenes. It is interesting from an historical sense, but not overly entertaining, yet not a bad film. Hence the so-so rating.

F-bombs.

5.0 out of 5 stars Closer to the truth, November 26, 2011

By 

Mason C - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: The Boston Strangler (DVD)

Now that is is commonly accepted that Albert DeSalvo was most likely not the Boston Strangler, but instead was just a sneaky little conman & pervert, who just happened to be locked up in a mental asylum with several known psychopaths & serial killers, most of whom were out at the time of the stranglings, including the sociopath George Nassar who is protrayed in the film as the real killer. So, as opposed to the Tony Curtis classic, which is basically a fictionalized version of these crimes (like how Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a fictionalized version of Ed Gein), this film is very low budget, but director Mike Feifer is vetren in the serial killer movies field & ol' Bud Bundy himself David Faustino does, in my opinon, the greatest, most accurate depiction of Albert De Salvo that was ever on film. Overall, a good little film.