Movie review – “Hands of the Ripper” (1971) **

Dennis Meikle, in his excellent book on Hammer, really likes this late entry slasher thriller about the daughter of Jack the Ripper, who starts killing people when she goes into a trance. I thought it was fairly ordinary – badly acted, blandly handled, with lots of nasty killings. Eric Porter adds a dash of dodginess as a middle aged professor who becomes convinced he can “cure” the girl – of course he fails, and she winds up taking out his maid, a hooker, a medium and various others. An interesting touch is the pair of juvenile lovers includes a horny blind girl who can’t wait to get married so she can get down to it. Interesting death sequence