Strangled

2016 · 120 min · HU · 6.4 (98 votes)

Dir. Árpád Sopsits · Starring Károly Hajduk, Gábor Jászberényi, Zsolt Anger, Mónika Balsai, Piroska Móga, Eszter Csépai

ThrillerDramaCrimeHorror

A psychotic killer is on the prowl, who continues to slaughter young women while an innocent man is wrongly accused and sentenced for crimes he could never have committed. A determined detective arrives on the scene and soon becomes obsessed with the case while under pressure from the prosecutor to see a man hang.

VIBE

A grim, atmospheric procedural that plunges into the dark underbelly of a community gripped by fear. It's a tense, methodical descent into obsession and the pursuit of a phantom killer, where the hunt for truth feels as suffocating as the crimes themselves.

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hungarybased on true storyserial killercat and mousetrue crimewrongful conviction1960sinnocent suspectcommunist erafemale victimssmall town fearviolent murdersobsessed detectivepressured prosecutordark thriller