Night of the Strangler is a 1972 American blaxploitation mystery film[1] directed by Joy N. Houck Jr. and starring Micky Dolenz and James Ralston.

It depicts the story of Denise Roberts and her plans to enter into an interracial marriage with her baby's father; these plans are disrupted by his murder, which begins an escalating series of killings involving her brothers Vance (Dolenz) and Dan (Ralston) and their loved ones.

Once back in New Orleans, an intruder in Denise's apartment drowns her in her bathtub, then slits her wrists in an attempt to disguise the murder as a suicide.

After the wedding, Carol is killed by a venomous snake concealed in a bouquet of roses delivered to their home.

[1][2] The next day Jake has packed up to leave town, but as he starts to get in his car he suddenly screams and leaps out as the two police officers who have been trying to solve the murders look on.

The AFI considers a June 1972 release reported by BoxOffice to be unconfirmed, and instead lists the film (as Dirty Dan's Women) as having first screened in 1973.

[1] However, Nicolas Winding Refn claims an August 1972 release (as Dirty Dan),[7] while film historian Gerald Butters gives the date of the Chicago première at the Loop Theater (as Is the Father Black Enough?)

[3] Mike Royko criticized the movie's themes of racial violence (especially the advertising phrase “A racist wind blows the dust from a black man’s grave to choke the honkies to death.”) and suggested that this film, along with others like Slaughter, risked contributing to real-world crime.

[7] In July 1983, the British pre-certification video distributor Cinema Indoors released the film (as Vengeance is Mine) on VHS and Betamax.