With Jack The Ripper Jesús Franco makes a film that is inspired by the story of the famous serial killer, but draws extensively from Gritos en la noche, a 1961 film by the same director. A key element taken from the ’61 film is the dual role of the female lead, played by Josephine Chaplin. The actress embodies both the brave girlfriend of the inspector, crucial to solving the case, and the mother of the Ripper, who appears in the killer’s visions.
The first nude actress in the film is cadaverous. In the sixth minute a man comes down the stairs leading to the Thames and holds Francine Custer naked and deceased. Twenty-one minutes later Josephine Chaplin appears half-naked in a man’s dreams. Five minutes later Esther Studer enters a bedroom and undresses, showing us a beautiful full-frontal nude. A man is in the room with her and sits on the bed. Esther sits him down, kisses him, then reaches down between his legs to give him a blowjob. Fifteen minutes later Lina Romay is performing a sexy show on a club stage. Six minutes later the actress is running through a forest being chased by a man full of bad intentions. In fact, shortly afterwards Lina becomes a bloody corpse. Twenty-two minutes later Josephine Chaplin is lying on the ground and a man undresses her, then lies on top of her.
The first nude actress in the film is cadaverous. In the sixth minute a man comes down the stairs leading to the Thames and holds Francine Custer naked and deceased. Twenty-one minutes later Josephine Chaplin appears half-naked in a man’s dreams. Five minutes later Esther Studer enters a bedroom and undresses, showing us a beautiful full-frontal nude. A man is in the room with her and sits on the bed. Esther sits him down, kisses him, then reaches down between his legs to give him a blowjob. Fifteen minutes later Lina Romay is performing a sexy show on a club stage. Six minutes later the actress is running through a forest being chased by a man full of bad intentions. In fact, shortly afterwards Lina becomes a bloody corpse. Twenty-two minutes later Josephine Chaplin is lying on the ground and a man undresses her, then lies on top of her.
