The Monster of London City (1964)
A well produced West German psycho thriller or Krimi. The Monster of London City brings the Jack the Ripper murders into the modern day as prostitutes are stalked and murdered across London's foggy streets.
A nicely constructed 'whodunnit' which focuses on a Ripper play being performed by an Edgar Allan Poe theatre group and the signs point to it's producer being the killer.
The German Krimi's were definitely forerunners to Italian Giallo films and this is no exception. You only need to look at the film poster to see typical Giallo motifs. The kills are brutal (for the time) and there's even mild nudity and the style of the film harks back to London by gaslight evoking a sense of the Gothic.
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