One good Klaus deserves a bad one. Welcome to our Friday Flip-Out Feature, Klaus plays a serial killer whose mother was a prostitute, and he starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying her back for her abuse... Not exactly a Jack The Ripper story, his name isn't even Jack, it's Dennis! Only tie-in is the street girls, he also likes women who perform at cheap bars.
You gotta love Klaus Kinski, a real original. The one day I worked as an extra on the set of TIMESTALKERS, Klause took a wild ride on an ATV and drove through the lunch area, real fast, while we were eating. The weird smile on his face was priceless, I couldn't tell if he was acting or not... Tell you one thing, the dude could ride a horse! Man, he died at age 65.
Well, well, well, who could this be hiding in the shadows at night, stalking women?..
There's the victim, wrapped and ready to be dumped into the stream. But wait a minute, why is there a big old lady tossing the body out of the boat? Oh great, now we gots two mysteries!!
Here's a good portrait of Dr. Dennis Orloff... See, it's a freakin'
Orloff flick!
An interesting character is this old blind man who tells the Inspector that he can help the case with some details, as he was witness to the murder. He says that by being blind, his senses are heightened and he can give unique qualities of the person.
In the meantime, Orloff's having a fever dream about Cynthia, a ballet dancer, and girlfriend of the Inspector. She's telling him to come and get her, she's just like his mother, a whore...
My favorite part is when his landlady lets him know that she wants to be his girlfriend... She pours a cup of tea and offers it to him. After a few very weird expressions on his face, Orloff knocks the tea cup out of her hand (you gotta see it, wow) and it flies out of the scene, He gets up immediately and tells her something like... Screw you and your doddamn tea parties!! Needless to say, it horrifies the woman. She starts crying and goes over to the window, with her back turned. He reaches into his bag and pulls out a knife, he walks toward her, but, at the last second decides to go out to find his next victim. Klaus looks sooo strange in this one!
Shame on you prop department! A fisherman snags this mannequin hand (with a painted on light brown patina) and goes to the police... And,
they take it as evidence!!!
So, the police bring in a sketch artist to try and figure out what the killer looks like, by interviewing witnesses to the murders. The sketch definitely looks like Orloff, drawn in a modern art style!
No kidding, watching the movie, next scene starts, there's a closed curtain on screen... It quickly opens and we're treated to this fine... Her pose in the bottom still sez it all. Then I thought, hmmm, the audience is a mile away, there's no way they're seeing what we're seeing!!
Orloff captures Cynthia and is torn as to what he wants to do with her. Before he can harm her though, the Inspector and the police show up.
Yeah, his helper's there to the stinking end...
The Inspector tells Orloff to come down from his perch and give up, he's surrounded. After one cop fires a bullet near him, he surrenders with no problems. This one has too many standard story lines to get excited about, it's just a weird one! Tune in tomorrow for more fun, here at The Dungeon!!..
Following the crumbs of my old pal Zilligord, aka El Gordo, 
