Hands Of The Ripper

Following TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA (1969), director Peter Sasdy made his last film for Hammer, HANDS OF THE RIPPER, one of that studio's more moody, atmospheric, and haunting releases. Jack the Ripper murders his wife while their three-year-old daughter, Anna, watches. Before leaving, the notorious serial killer embraces his child and kisses her. Fourteen years later, the girl has grown into a beautiful woman (Angharad Rees), but she is psychologically scarred by the experience. Whenever Anna's passions are stirred by a demonstration of physical affection--a kiss, an embrace--she falls into a trance and stabs her companion. Anna encounters a Freudian psychiatrist...