Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Leofwine_draca TEENAGE STRANGLER is a really cheap indie thriller dating from 1964. The only thing going for it is that it was shot in bright and vivid colour which makes a change from the usual black and white indies of the era. The story is about a maniac with a penchant for strangling beautiful young women. A juvenile delinquent is accused of the crimes and fights to clear his name while the real murderer is brought to justice. As with most indies of the era, this one really suffers from having stilted and wooden acting from a cast who are clearly not cut out for acting; there isn't a moment's energy in the whole thing.

Lee Eisenberg I wish to say that "Teen-Age Strangler" was slightly better than most of the movies shown on "Mystery Science Theater 3000", just because of that song "Yipe Stripes"; you gotta admit, it was a cool song. But other than that, every scene with the sniveling younger brother drags the movie down; I mean, what was that guy's problem?! So, as a mildly different take on the leather jacket genre, it deserves to get seen on "MST3K" to get the optimal experience. Aside from Mamie Eisenhower, other famous people cited by Mike (or was it Joel?) and the 'bots are Vivian Vance and Danny Thomas. And I will say that some of those girls are quite hot!

bensonmum2 A series of young women are strangled leaving the local police baffled. They catch a break when one young woman witnesses the killer in action. But she's unsure of what she's seen. And she's conflicted about telling the police that the attacker wore a jacket that looked just like her boyfriend's gang jacket. There's no way that her boyfriend could be a murderer, is there? Of the 17 cast and crew-members listed on IMDb for Teen-Age Strangler, 13 have no other credits listed under their name. And two others have only two credits. Unfortunately, this lack of experience shows. During the Mystery Science Theater 3000 commentary, someone compares Teen-Age Strangler to a community theater production. It's a very apt comparison. Calling Teen-Age Strangler "amateurish" doesn't even begin to describe it. The acting is shoddy with stilted delivery; the lighting, sound, editing, and other production values are poor; the script is filled with unnatural dialogue; and the sets and set design are what you might expect from using existing locations in Huntington, WV, circa 1964. In short, it's not a very good movie and probably not even worthy of the 3/10 rating I've given it.But despite its many flaws, there is a bit of entertainment to be had with Teen-Age Strangler. Granted, much of it is akin to watching a car crash, but the movie is not without its moments. First, while the production is amateurish, it does appear that everyone is giving it their best. There's a lot of that "let's pull together to put on a show" feeling to it. And surely that counts for something – not much, but something. Second, the film features at least one surreal moment involving a barefoot girl singing and dancing on the counter at the local malt shop. And as utterly ridiculous as the song she sings may be, there's no denying it's an unforgettable scene – Yipes! Stripes! Finally, there's Mikey. What a guy! He raises the bar for whiny characters to new heights. His meltdown at the police station is classic! So while it may not be much, I've come up with at least three things I "enjoyed" about Teen-Age Strangler.As I indicated, I watched the MST3K version of the film. Overall, it was an enjoyable experience and one of the really good episodes of the show I've seen. Funny stuff! I'll give Teen-Age Strangler a 4/5 on my MST3K rating scale.

Aaron1375 I saw this one as part of an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as I am sure many people did. The film kind of combines a murder mystery with those teenage rebel films as we get the obligatory random and in this case horrible song, we get a drag race and gangs and we get a killer on the loose! Granted, it is a bit telegraphed as to the identity of the killer as I was pretty sure who it was the moment he first appeared on the screen. Thus, rendering the murder mystery portion of the film almost moot. We get cops talking, we get fights in the local soda shop and we get Mikey, a brother who will do what it takes to clear the name of Jimmy and who kind of breaks down a lot for a guy. The run time on this film had to be incredibly short as the episode of MST3K that it was on featured a short that lasted through the entire first section of the movie time. I am pretty sure this one most likely did not have to get cut due to anything too risqué within as it looked like a pretty standard film for the times and in the 60's 'standard' usually means no nudity and graphic kills are few and far between.The story has a killer on the loose, strangling young women, hence the title Teenage Strangler. Of course, one of the women killed is most definitely not a teenage so the other title fits the bill better. Not sure why that older one was killed, but my guess is that it would make more sense in a straight cut of the movie. Well, the police are going around and badgering parents and interrupting the Yipes Stripes song so they can find and stop this killer! Jimmy gets the blame initially and his strange, overly emotionally brother will do anything he can to clear his brother's name including going to the police station to tell the police that Jimmy didn't steal no bike, which really isn't relevant to the whole strangling case, but that is how Mikey rolls! Jimmy runs afoul of his gang members and they must race; meanwhile, the strangler takes out a couple of other girls and that one girl who is kill boyfriend really takes it in stride.This made for a rather funny episode of MST3K as Mikey is such a wonderfully absurd character for the gang to make fun of. You take him out of the movie and it is still an okay episode, but with him in it just wow. Literally the guy is chewing the scenery any time he is on the screen.So, in the end, a movie that is kind of a combination teen rebel film and murder mystery where there is not much mystery because you have to be rather dense not to figure out who the real killer is. Thankfully, we only get the one song, but we get its tune played throughout the film as they really did not put much effort into the music in this film only playing the one song or bars of it throughout the film. However, in the end a pretty bad but harmless film that probably would have completely disappeared from the face of the earth if it had not been riffed by MST3K.