Review – The Stranglers of Bombay

After reading 50 True Tales of Terror as a kid, I was fascinated by the depredations of the Thugee, the Kali-inspired cult of anti-English robbers and murderers from the 19th century. Unfortunately, this old Hammer Studios production suffers from a lot of the same Anglophilic racism that infected the book I found so inspirational when I was 12. A dashing East India Company officer (Guy Rolfe) slowly uncovers the existence of the fiendish band of killers, battling uncooperative locals and unsympathetic superiors to bring the culprits to justice. Mildly amusing