The Ripper claims another victim


Blade of the Ripper or The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh opens with a man picking up a prostitute from one of Italy's seemingly endless hooker roads. In less than a minute, said hooker is topless and in the next she is being brutally stabbed. A Sigmund Freud quote is displayed on the screen over a freeze frame shot of a plane which carries our heroine, Edwige Fenech!

Classic shot of Edwige Fenech from All the Colours of Dark
All the Colors of the Dark opens with a hallucinogenic dream sequence that includes a nude pregnant lady, a killer, and an "Alice in Wonderland" reject. Jane awakens from her dream and decides to take a shower with her clothes on. Not a bad start to this strange entry into the giallo category.

This 1972, text-book giallo opens with a pair of murders within the first few minutes. A killer is loose and, at first, the victims seem unrelated except for the half-moon pendant left at each crime scene. The police catch a break when a young girl is attacked by the killer but is