Strait-Jacket – Final Project sketches – Natalie Soto

Strait-Jacket is a 1964 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by William Castle. Twenty years prior to the present day in the film, a woman named Lucy Harbin catches her husband in bed with another film. In a fit of rage she kills both her husband and the other woman with an axe. While this is all happening their 3 year old daughter, Carol Harbin, is sleeping in the other room. Afterwards Lucy is committed into a psychiatric hospital and deemed critically insane. Carol is sent to live with her aunt and uncle and is adopted by them. Twenty years later some time after Lucy is released from the hospital; a series of axe murders begin happening once again.