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An ambassador's wife discovers that one of the men in her life - either her husband, an ex-lover or her current lover - may be a vicious serial killer.An ambassador's wife discovers that one of the men in her life - either her husband, an ex-lover or her current lover - may be a vicious serial killer.An ambassador's wife discovers that one of the men in her life - either her husband, an ex-lover or her current lover - may be a vicious serial killer.
Conchita Airoldi
- Carol Brandt
- (as Cristina Airoldi)
Manuel Gil
- Dr. Arbe
- (as Manuel Gill)
Anne Pouchie
- Victim in the shower
- (as Pouchie)
Letizia Lehir
- Killed prostitute
- (uncredited)
Giuseppe Marrocco
- Neighbor
- (uncredited)
Francesco Narducci
- Police Photographer
- (uncredited)
Oscar Sciamanna
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe film was refused a UK cinema certificate in 1971 and passed uncut for DVD in 2011.
- GoofsThe actor playing the Spanish news vendor is dubbed incorrectly in the English version. He pronounces the "c" in gracias as "s", which is the Latin American pronunciation. In Spain "c" sounds like "th".
- Quotes
Bouquet card: Now I know you're trying to get away from me --- but your vice is like a room locked from the inside and only I have the key...
- Crazy credits"The very fact that the commandment says "do not kill" makes us aware and convinced that we are descended from an unbroken chain of generations of assassins, for whom the love of murder was in their blood, as it is perhaps in ours." - Sigmund Freud
- Alternate versionsThis was released at least twice on VHS in the United States. The version called Next Victim (box claims it runs 87 minutes) is quite different than the version released as Blade of The Ripper (box claims it runs 83 minutes). The film was shot in widescreen 2:35 and neither is letterboxed. The version released as Next Victim has had all of the nudity edited out of it. Blade of the Ripper has had the opening titles and several other sequences removed entirely, which accounts for the short running time.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Through the Keyhole: An Interview with Sergio Martino (2015)
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Stylish, violent and sexy.
Originally denied a certificate in the UK Sergio Martino's Giallo "The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh" is stylish, violent and sexy in equal measure, even in this dubbed version. It's the type of film that does exactly what it says on the tin and fans of the genre certainly won't be disappointed. Personally, I've never really seen the attraction of badly dubbed sexploitation pictures in which beautiful women get hacked to death in gloating close-up while either a discordantly jangly or quasi-religious score throbes away in the background.
Here a serial slasher is terrorising women in Vienna and terrorised ambassador's wife Julie Wardh, (the gorgeous Edwige Fenech), suspects it's her ex-lover Jean. Of course, Mrs Wardh has a strange vice in that she enjoys kinky, rough sex and what Giallo would be complete without a dollop or three of kinky, rough sex and several more dollops of explicit female nudity not to mention a whole barrel load of red-herrings. Just the kind of thing that might have played in the cinemas of Soho (or Derry's Palace Picturehouse), back in the day and very enjoyable it is too.
Here a serial slasher is terrorising women in Vienna and terrorised ambassador's wife Julie Wardh, (the gorgeous Edwige Fenech), suspects it's her ex-lover Jean. Of course, Mrs Wardh has a strange vice in that she enjoys kinky, rough sex and what Giallo would be complete without a dollop or three of kinky, rough sex and several more dollops of explicit female nudity not to mention a whole barrel load of red-herrings. Just the kind of thing that might have played in the cinemas of Soho (or Derry's Palace Picturehouse), back in the day and very enjoyable it is too.
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- MOscarbradley
- Mar 15, 2020
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- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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By what name was The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971) officially released in India in English?
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