Jess Franco's Jack the Ripper (1976)
A police inspector enlists his daughter to help him out by playing a hooker and visiting the bars and gin joints of London's East End in a bid to capture the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper.
Franco goes all Victorian Gothic in this stylish and fairly slick horror. The sets are lavish and the mood is highly atmospheric as the one and only Klaus Kinski goes about slashing and mutillating prostitutes in vividly gory detail.
However the film, also written by Franco, is completely inaccurate factually regarding the Ripper case and is played totally for exploitation rather than historical precision, so anyone with the remotest interest or knowledge of the infamous serial killer will at no doubt have their head in their hands throughout.
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