The Strangler of Syggrou(1989)

The Strangler of Syggrou is a Greek horror-thriller set in late-1980s Athens. Angelos, a quiet mannequin maker, descends into madness after his wife's death, channeling his grief into a grotesque obsession. He begins strangling sex workers along Sygrou Avenue, then transforms their bodies into lifelike doll replicas—grotesque monuments to his unraveling mind. This shot-on-video remake of Maniac strips away glamour to expose raw psychological horror, anchored in the gritty streets of Athens and the killer's suffocating workshop. The film explores how trauma warps perception and how the boundary between art and atrocity collapses in a disturbed psyche. Bleak, unsettling, and unflinching, it's a visceral descent into obsession and murder.