31 days of Horror: Day Twenty Nine-La lama nel corpo (The Murder Clinic)

La lama nel corpo (The Murder Clinic) (1966)

The Murder Clinic is set in England (yeah right!) in the mid 1800s, at an isolated Rest Home. For some reason a cloaked, black gloved killer is murdering the patients with a straight razor. Dr. Vance, the clinic's owner is covering up the slayings. He tells the new nurse that the missing patient left that morning at dawn with her family, and later he's seen burying the body by the blackmailing Gisèle, a murderer in her own right.Even though his wife accuses him of murdering women early on, it's not clear that he's the killer. There are a number of other possibilities. The womanizing straight razor carrying care taker, the patient prone to violent outbursts who tries to stab one of the nurses, and don't forget the cloaked hideous monstrosity that lives on the fourth floor.

This is an entertaining mix of Gothic Horror, and Giallo. On the Gothic side we have an old dark house, long buried family secrets, shifty servants, physical deformity, and insanity. And on the Giallo side we have a high body count, free flowing blood, and an elaborate, and improbable whodunit. This is the perfect kind of scary movie to catch on TV late at night, and great Halloween fare.