Hands full of blood
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hands full of blood |
| Original title | Hands of the ripper |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Sasdy |
| script |
LW Davidson Edward Spencer Shew |
| production | Aida Young |
| music | Christopher Gunning |
| camera | Kenneth Talbot |
| cut | Chris Barnes |
| occupation | |
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Hands full of blood (Original title: Hands of the Ripper ) is a British horror film from the Hammer Films production of 1971. Eric Porter and Angharad Rees play the leading roles, directed by Peter Sasdy .
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Once, when Anna was three, she had to watch her father brutally stab her mother to death. Anna's mother found out that her husband was really the infamous Jack the Ripper . After her father's death, Anna grew up with her aunt, who referred her to wealthy men for sexual favors. Today she suffers from the past and is obsessed with the idea that the spirit of the dead harlot father has taken hold of her. When she is in a trance, Anna immediately goes on a murder spree, but later on she can't remember anything. The housemaid Dolly is one of the victims, a prostitute through whose eyes Anna chases several hatpins, and another. Granny Golding, the alleged medium who pretends to customers who are willing to pay that she can talk to their expensive deceased during séances, has to believe in it and is impaled on a door by Anna with a poker. Finally, the blonde girl comes into the care of Freud's student Dr. Pritchard. The psychoanalyst has a great interest in penetrating into the subconscious of his young patient and finding out why Anna, when she is not fully conscious, sets off on her murderous tour.
He soon finds out that Anna started killing whenever someone wanted to kiss her. After the murder of his own mother, her Ripper father had said goodbye to his little daughter before he disappeared from her life forever. Obviously, this left Anna with trauma. Dr. Pritchard soon gives himself up to the illusion that he can really help the girl with her hands full of blood, yes: he can even heal her. But soon he will bitterly regret this decision, because Anna slaughters while preparing for the wedding of Dr. Pritchard's son Michael also bloody down the house maid when she wanted to put a medallion on her. Pritchard firmly believes that this medallion must have been central to Anna's past and could explain her split personality. Things are picking up speed and Pritchard realizes that the only way to stop Anna is if he's ready to give his own life. The showdown finally takes place in London's St. Paul's Cathedral : Anna, injured by a dagger stab in the side, pursues his patient into the whispered vault of the house of God, where he can persuade her to plunge into the depths with him and ruin her pathetic existence To put an end to it.
Production notes
Hands Full of Blood apparently premiered in Germany on September 30, 1971. The British premiere did not take place until October 17, 1971.
Reviews
The Movie & Video Guide said: “Good atmosphere, solid appearances, but after a good start everything leads to a series of bloody murders”.
Halliwell's Film Guide thought the film was "a bloody hammer horror with well-done scenes".
“Trivial horror story with some superfluous shock effects and dramaturgical weaknesses. Very carefully crafted. "
" Hands full of blood is an extremely exciting, even if it is told very slowly, awesome film that quickly reveals who is responsible for the bloody murders, but carries you away to the end and is damn good entertaining."
Individual evidence
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 540
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 441
- ↑ Hands full of blood in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on September 9, 2018
- ↑ Hands full of blood on nightmare-horrormovies.de
Web links
- Hands full of blood in the Internet Movie Database (English)