Hanging Heart is a 1989[a][2][3] American slasher film written and directed by Jimmy Lee, and starring Barry Wyatt, Jake Henry, and Francine Lapensée.

Its plot follows a stage actor who is arrested for his girlfriend's murder, followed by a series of similar slayings, while he is defended by a benefactor and attorney who is romantically obsessed with him.

After Denny and his girlfriend, fellow actress Cathy, have sex in the theater, a cloaked figure with a black wig strangles her to death.

In therapy sessions, Denny experiences flashbacks to being sexually abused by his stepfather, and the subsequent unresolved strangling death of his mother.

On a critical day of the trial, Denny runs late to the courthouse and is struck by a car, which Julie witnesses.

[5] Vinegar Syndrome released the film on Blu-ray for the first time as part of their Homegrown Horrors: Volume II set in 2022, alongside Moonstalker (1989) and Dead Girls (1990).