Jack The Ripper (1976)

Jack The Ripper stalks London looking for prostitutes to kill.
A pretty accessible film considering it comes from that old Spanish auteur, Jess Franco. He plays high and wide not only with the story of our Jack, but also with the sights of Whitechapel in the Victorian age, filming it as he does in Switzerland. The Thames never looked lovelier!! Franco's Jack is Klaus Kinski a man bent on killing whore's because (I'm guessing) of his mother's behaviour along those lines. He likes to cut off their breasts (removing their ability to mother?) and chopping them up and disposing with them in the Thames. As ever with Franco there are plenty of half-baked ideas that do not come to proper fruition but all in all a decent enough flick. As ever with this director, a little knowl;edge before hand goes a long way to helping to enjoy it.