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<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" height="1%" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" height="99%" valign="top">  A mysterious killer is roaming small-town America, & he kills girls by strangling them with a nylon stocking, then carving an <i>X</i> into their forehead. But who could be the killer, onr of a gang of hot-rodders ? Nice boy Jimmy (John Ensign), who once had a run-in with the law for stealing a bike, but he was actually only covering his little brother ? Jimmy's little brother (John Humphries) ? Jimmy's nerdy friend ? The local school's janitor ? Or even the snack-bar owner all the local kids hang out in ? The police have certainly made their mind up in focussing on Jimmy, not at all helped by the fact that he's caught when trying to flee the town. But of course it wasn't him but ... well, this time around it was the janitor (Ron Ormond, who as director gave the world <b> <a href="mesaoflostwomen(1953).shtml"> Mesa of Lost Women</a></b> & <b><a href="untamedmistress(1956).shtml">Untamed Mistress</a></b>), who was once a teacher but demoted when he allegedly tried to rape a girl. Jimmy's girlfriend catches him red-handed, though she almost pays for it with her life.  <p> </p> <p>Conventional wisdom has it that <b><a href="halloween(1978).shtml">Halloween</a></b> started the slasher movie cycle in 1978, being the first to be filmed according to the slasher-formula. Know-it-alls however will point out that Bob Clark's otherwise utterly unremarkabla <b>Black Christmas</b> did already apply same formula in 1974. This movie however was filmed almost a decade earlier & already it follows the same lines, & already the plot seems pretty stale, so Teen-Age Strangler tries to spice up the proceedings a bit by throwing in some hot-rodding - with moderate success, though. </p> <p> The film should still be interesting for slasher fans, though what <i>interesting</i> might mean depends largely on your interpretation of that word</p> <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="1%">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2003"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>