Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

adriangr I had heard positive reviews of this film before I saw it, but I was very disappointed in it. Paul Naschy stars as a troubled ex-acrobat (!) who is a prime suspect in the hunt for a killer who is murdering a string of women. Set in London, and filmed in the 1970s, the plot sees Naschy avoid capture as more and more murders happen, and the police try and catch him, and that's about as exciting as it gets. Casing itself in the giallo mould, the film tosses in a lot of "meaningful" details such as a child seeing the shoes of the stalking killer, the revelation that a different knife is used for each murders, and the fact that the killer removes selected body parts from each victim. None of which particularly enhances the plot or the big reveal at the end. There is blurb around the film saying that the killer is also a cannibal but that never surfaces in the actual plot at all.The acting is all pretty poor, most notably from the women. The victims are played by women with no acting skill at all,and there's also a really terrible non- performance by a key female character who helps Naschy in the second half of the film. Naschy himself is not bad although he appears to be wearing a very bad toupee. Actually nearly all of the female parts are played by women in bad wigs as well!The overall look of the movie is also quite poor. The print in this edition is widescreen, thankfully, but it's grubby and not very crisp. There isn't much artistry in the cinematography, many scenes are brutally lit with very harsh lighting, and a lot are overexposed. The English dub is awful, not just in the lip synching, but in the script - the lines that the characters come out with are very often hilarious. A lot of scenes are set in central London streets, and in nearly every one of them, the passers by gawp and stare directly into the camera, which totally distracts from the action, and should have been edited out. One man is even seen ducking out of the way!I don't like being negative, but this is a very dull movie. There are a lot of murders but they are all exactly the same, an amateur actress screaming and the same close up every time of a knife digging into some rubbery fake skin in extreme close up! I have seen a lot of giallos and I am a fan of the genre, but when I sit through stuff like this I realise that it takes some skill to make what are essentially crime thrillers look stylish and suspenseful, and this movie does not have that skill.

Red-Barracuda The giallo was an Italian invention; however, there were several Spanish movies that are accepted entries in the genre. Seven Murders for Scotland Yard is a pretty typical example of this sub-genre of the sub-genre. It stars Iberian horror icon Paul Naschy in the lead role. In it he plays medical student turned acrobat who is the chief suspect in a series of prostitute murders in London. The killings recall the work of Jack the Ripper.This is a pretty routine murder-mystery. It's hampered a bit by its low budget. It lacks the sense of style that most of its Italian counterparts had, so it comes across as somewhat more rough-edged. The murders themselves have pretty crude gore effects, while there is a distinct lack of nudity. The latter is clearly as a result of the Spanish origins, seeing as this was made in Franco's Spain and film nudity was a bit of a no-no – Spaniards like Jesus Franco had to make films in France and West Germany in order to ramp up the sex. The mystery itself isn't bad as such but the small cast means that there really aren't a lot of suspects to begin with. Still, it's certainly an entertaining enough flick, just don't go into it expecting too much.

HumanoidOfFlesh After being injured in circus acrobat Peter Dockerman(Paul Naschy)spends his nights drinking heavily and fighting in some obscure bars.When his wife is murdered Peter becomes the chief suspect in a series of Jack The Ripper style butcherings.Cops are trying to track down Peter and he tries to solve the case himself."Seven Murders for Scotland Yard" is a pretty watchable Spanish giallo with plenty of bloody stabbings.The killings are mean and misogynistic but not very graphic.The cinematography is quite good and there are some suspenseful stalking scenes.Unfortunately the direction is pretty bland and the gore scenes look amateurish.Still if you enjoyed "Blue Eyes of a Broken Doll" give this one a look too.7 Jack the Rippers out of 10.

The_Void Seven Murders for Scotland Yard is pretty much your standard Giallo fare, and that is no bad thing! The plot revolves around a vicious psychopath who goes around brutally slaying prostitutes. You would expect a film with this sort of plot to be a completely brutal and sleazy affair, but Seven Murders for Scotland Yard is surprising in that aspect as while there are murders aplenty, there's no real nudity, and the murders themselves have been heavily edited, so we don't get to see much more than a bit of blood. This is unfortunate as Seven Murders for Scotland could have done with these appealing elements to compliment the plot, but even so; it has to be said that this isn't a bad film on the whole, and it's certainly one of the better Spanish Giallo's. As mentioned, the plot focuses on the murdering of prostitutes, and as the title suggests, Scotland Yard are soon on the case. The main suspects in the murders is a Peter Dockerman, whose girlfriend was killed along with the prostitutes, but Commissioner Henry Campbell of Scotland Yard doesn't believe Dockerman to be the one they're looking for.It's clear just looking at this film that it didn't benefit from a large budget, and indeed the locations do all look very cheap. Of course, the fact that my copy isn't exactly brilliant doesn't help, but it is obvious that director José Luis Madrid was merely cashing in on the popular formula of the day. Like a lot of seventies Spanish horror films, this one stars Paul Naschy. Naschy has given some good performances in the past; but this isn't one of his better ones. In fact, none of the performances in this film really inspire anything from the audience and it doesn't seem like anyone is really putting any effort in. The plot is fairly standard stuff too, though it never completely dries up as there's always another murder just around the corner. The identity of the murderer becomes obvious early on in the film, and the twist I was expecting never came. The ending itself is decent enough, however, as we finally get to see the killer's lair and the climatic struggle is decent despite the fact that you wont really care who comes out victorious. Overall, Seven Murders for Scotland Yard is a decent enough Giallo, but there are many, many better ones out there!