“Heads roll in this Psycho-clone written by Robert Bloch and given that old Castle touch--mayhem, murder, and mental instability. Joan Crawford is cast as a woman who, in a jealous rage, gives her husband the axe--literally--right in front of her three-year-old daughter. Crawford is packed off to an insane asylum and returns twenty years later. Needless to say, the axe murders resume. Said Time: ‘Creepy camera work and the condition reflex set off when (Joan's) baubles start to jangle in the dark add starch to Strait-Jacket. It must also be the first horror film able to boast that one of its diehard victims (Mitchell Cox) is a real-life vice president of the Pepsi-Cola Co. As for Pepsi-Cola Board Member Crawford, she plainly plays her mad scenes For Those Who Think Jung.'” American Film Institute