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Summary: This is Jess Franco we're talking about....
Review: Sure, this movie isn't much good. A lot of time it looks as if it were made by a small child. Did they even have a script? But all that's really beside the point for fans of this stuff. Here's the great Klaus Kinski in a Jess Franco movie! Wonder if he slept with Lina Romay? Klaus slept with everyone else, at least according to his book.Klaus stalks, female flesh is exposed, blood flows, and Jess does something that might, in a pinch, even pass for direction. What are you waiting for? Buy this DVD!
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Summary: GREAT LOOKING DVD.....BUT.....
Review: This is a good looking package. The print is fine and the color and photography are sumptuous. But the film itself is another matter. The dubbing is laughable with voices mismatched to the characters so that whole scenes are comical when they should be serious. The victims are too healthy looking and pretty and costumed for a rock video---not the Whitechapel period of the Ripper. And boy do those costumes come off fast. The girls don't even put up a fight. They just whimper. The gore is confined to one scene that's gross but not very convincing. Klaus Kinski is sufficiently sinister as Jack but he just mopes around and tangles with the girls. So this is just a sexploitation effort by Franco although it looks good. Too bad it isn't.
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Summary: Jack The Ripoff!
Review: This Jess Franco film is as bad as it gets. I will not waste either my time or those of reviewers with a long diatribe. Unless you want to build a collection of the worst films ever made, then you probably want to stay clear this Jack The Ripoff who lurks the dark corners of your video store.
All I can say is that I bought this film because I'm a Klaus Kinski fan: particularly of his work with Herzog. Without knowing it, this catchy title with Klaus Kinski caught my attention in an obscure corner of the video store very much like the infamous killer jumped on his victims from out of the London fog. Next thing I know, I fall victim to the jabbing pain of pathetic scenes and horribly fake special effects.
This is quite a stretch from Herzog's work and Klaus Kinski is horribly underused in this film: he barely utters any lines! Everything about this film is cheap and just bad: the plot, the acting, the directing, the filming, everything! Avoid this film at all costs!
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Summary: Warning: Most of you will not be able to watch this "Jack"
Review: With the release of "From Hell" sure to revive interest in Jack the Ripper, this 1976 effort from exploitation director Jesus "Jess" Franco is going to get some revived interest. But this "Jack the Ripper" is only loosely based on the historic murders. Klaus Kinski plays the title character and his "true" identity of Dr. Orloff. The explanation here is that "Jack" was abused by his prostitute mother and so he starts butchering prostitutes on the streets of London. Even in a film career based on dishing out the gory, Franco finds a way to go way over the top with this one. This is a movie of stomach turning, savage violence that is rated "R" only because they did not have NC-17 way back then. You do not want to know anybody who can laugh their way through the gore in this one. The DVD version includes the theatrical trailer ("Close your eyes and whisper his name..."), photo stills and liner notes.
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