The overall storytelling structure of the film is well organized, with some critics saying that the film's success is largely due to cinematographer Luigi Kuveiller. This gentleman has previously worked with the director on Giallo-style A Lizard In A Woman's Skin, Dario Argento's Deep Red and other films. There is a murder scene in the backstage of the sex show theater. The use of dark green light makes the whole scene terrifying and magical.
The film was controversial at the time for the excessive use of violence in the film. It is true that almost all horror films use female abuse or similar plots to set off the horror atmosphere, but the violence suffered by the women in this film is far more than what is shown in ordinary films. For example, the breasts of female victims were slashed wildly with switch knives by murderers, and the sex show actresses were stabbed in the stomach with broken wine bottles until they died in their dressing rooms; the detective's mistress was naked and tied to her own bed Vivisection from top to bottom by murderer with razor blades, etc. In a documentary I once watched about the director, it was indeed mentioned that the director has prejudice against women, and this prejudice is often reflected in his work. But I personally think that scenes of violence against women in the movie have existed before, and maybe this is not the director's own intention but the reason for the script itself. It was not uncommon for other Italian directors to use this element at the time. For example, in Mario Landi and Andrea Bianchi's films, there were often scenes of erotic violence that were basically unrelated to the plot, but this kind of plot happened in the films of Fulci, a first-class Italian B-movie director. I felt a little unreasonable.
Another flaw in the film is the character setting of the murderer itself. This bloodthirsty, murderous murderer always speaks like Donald Duck "quack" when he commits murder. Although this duck-learning "quack" is also one of the suspense thrown by the director in the movie, but a strong as a killer always "quack, quack, quack" when he talks to others, it really damages the atmosphere of suspense .
The New York Ripper plays the psychologist Paolo Malco, who once played the leading role in the director House By The Cemeyery, the director's queen actress Daniela Doria plays the vivisection's mistress of the detective, and Zora Kerowa plays the broken wine bottle. A sex performer with a tummy tuck, the director himself plays the detective's boss. It is said that the director wanted to make an ambitious entry into the American market with this film, but it ended in disastrous failure.
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