Night Ripper.
Playing something like an Italian take on the town that dreaded sundown this film and the real events behind it share some eerie parallels. The monster of Florence, the name given to the killer and an alternate title to this 1986 film, operated between the years 1968 and 1985 killing parked couples with a handgun and in some cases mutilating the female victims with a knife. Besides the modus operandi of attacking people parked up in isolated locations, the killer here was never caught, much like the perpetrator of the Tex arcana killings.
This films feels very much like the sort of films Italy was pumping out in the mid to late eighties. Its still got some production value to it but could also pass as a TV movie in some places. Its still pretty decent and the documentary style to parts of it is certainly a nice touch. This is one that is unlikely to end up in the Giallo hall of fame however.
FilmArt's blu-ray is decent quality but not breath taking, theres plenty of print damage evident and it feels somewhat like watching a DVD. That said its also on DVD in the same package and the Blu is still a definite step up.
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