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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
Did you know
- 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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excellent giallo, that had been made to look poor previously by poor quality videos
I first saw this movie on videotape, Alpha Video's pan and scan, cut version under the title Next! So generic was this release that it had a primitive painting on the cover pretty much unrelated to the movie.
No Shame has put a DVD of the movie out which is uncut and widescreen, with the original title. It's much better. To my mind, anyone complaining about the camera-work or lighting in the movie was really complaining about the bad pan and scan job, and the bad print quality. It looks really good on the DVD. There is some somewhat unusual camera-work, as when at a party, the camera bumps around a bit like the POV of one of the partiers. When someone is shot later on, the picture is again POV, going out of focus and dropping.
Mrs. Wardh is married to a diplomat (or stock broker? or diplomat who plays the stock market?), and it's a pretty bland marriage. She has an ex-lover named Jean who had really dominated her, and they had fairly violent sex (in one flashback, he uses a broken bottle for foreplay). She's glad to be done with him, and is disturbed when he tries to start things up again.
She also starts a new affair with her cousin George. He, at least, seems to be a decent guy and a good lover.
Meanwhile in the city, there is someone slashing women. And then Mrs. Wardh gets a note from a blackmailer. This is a really very good giallo movie, which gets very twisty at the end. The cinematography is in fact quite good, and there are a number of colorful locations, like a park that makes for a rendezvous with the blackmailer. The park scene is (coincidentally?) similar to one in Argento's 4 mosche di velluto grigio (1971). Martino's direction compares pretty favorably with Argento's.
No Shame has put a DVD of the movie out which is uncut and widescreen, with the original title. It's much better. To my mind, anyone complaining about the camera-work or lighting in the movie was really complaining about the bad pan and scan job, and the bad print quality. It looks really good on the DVD. There is some somewhat unusual camera-work, as when at a party, the camera bumps around a bit like the POV of one of the partiers. When someone is shot later on, the picture is again POV, going out of focus and dropping.
Mrs. Wardh is married to a diplomat (or stock broker? or diplomat who plays the stock market?), and it's a pretty bland marriage. She has an ex-lover named Jean who had really dominated her, and they had fairly violent sex (in one flashback, he uses a broken bottle for foreplay). She's glad to be done with him, and is disturbed when he tries to start things up again.
She also starts a new affair with her cousin George. He, at least, seems to be a decent guy and a good lover.
Meanwhile in the city, there is someone slashing women. And then Mrs. Wardh gets a note from a blackmailer. This is a really very good giallo movie, which gets very twisty at the end. The cinematography is in fact quite good, and there are a number of colorful locations, like a park that makes for a rendezvous with the blackmailer. The park scene is (coincidentally?) similar to one in Argento's 4 mosche di velluto grigio (1971). Martino's direction compares pretty favorably with Argento's.
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- Jul 8, 2005
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- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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