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Gave it a watch in advance of the Silva & Gold guys reviewing it, just to get it off the To-Watch Pile, and aside from the quibble of the Jack The Ripper title (the leads are more of a pair of thrill-killers than Jack The Ripper wanna-bes) the film was a brief, breezy watch and I was never bored.
Worth a rental.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/07/23
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Man oh man, I had SOME idea of what to expect from this movie, but no idea of it's depravity! Even describing it would cause your mouth to drop open. OK, a pair of restaraunt workers discover, quite accidentally, the best aphrodisiac is for the guy to kill (more like gut) females before he does it. Pretty soon, the aphrodisiac wears off, and the guy just wants to kill. It's barbaric, and definitely not for everyone, but DAMN, what an amazing film to watch. Some serious money went into making it I'm sure.. Widescreen, hippy music, crisp direction and editing.. Someone must have known what they wanted and paid a great deal of money to get it. It would be interesting to find out the backstory behind this one.
Rated 3.5/5 Stars •
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
03/30/23
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En voilà un que je n'avais pas vu venir....et tant mieux, la bonne surprise en était d'autant plus grande. "Assault!Jack the Ripper" n'est pas le film de tueur en série habituel et pas le Pinku habituel non plus. Deux employés d'un resto, un homme super timide et une jeune femme sexy mais irritable, tue par hasard une auto-stoppeuse dérangée. Cet évènement a eu pour effet inattendu d'éveiller l'appétit sexuel du couple improvisé au point de recommencer afin de réitérer le moment magique.
Ce film est une véritable démonstration sur pellicule de eros et thanatos où le sexe et la mort sont liés, c'est d'ailleurs un film où les deux éléments sont très bien mélangé rendant le film fascinant d'érotisme et de sadisme, la mort est un aphrodisiaque. On a souvent parlé du fait que le couteau du tueur représentait symboliquement le penis, ça s'est rarement aussi bien vérifié que dans ce film car plus l'intrigue avance et plus le jeune homme délaisse sa copine faisant de son couteau l'objet sexuel ultime qu'il n'hésite plus à enfoncer dans le vagin de ses victimes.
La spirale emmènera ce nouveau tueur en série vers une tuerie finale qui a tout d'une orgie où il laisse carrément exploser son désir en s'occupant de quatre femmes en même temps. Plutôt bien réalisé, avec une musique qui rompt un peu le ton grave du sujet, à la manière des gialli, "Assualt! Jack the Ripper" est porté par son duo d'acteur qui ont leur rôle dans la peau, très bonne illustration de deux notions contradictoire mais finalement très proche, tout ça emballé dans un film de genre qui plairait à coup sûr aux amateurs !
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
02/07/23
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Oddly enough, you won't find a glimpse or mention of Jack the Ripper anywhere in this early pinku exploitation flick. Instead, the story revolves around a downtrodden waitress and a nebbish cake chef who discover that they get an erotic charge out of murdering women. Once that happens, "Assault!" is an hour of pure sex and violence, one killing after another - usually committed with a very sharp cake spatula. After each killing, the main characters have sex. Then they kill again. That's all there is.
"Assault!" isn't bad for what it is -- a softcore pornographic video nastiness with a paper-thin story. The lead actors aren't bad at what they do, and Yoko Azusa has an odd look about her that makes her simultaneously unattractive and sexy, making her a perfect Bonnie to Yutaka Hayashi's nerdy-but-murderous Clyde. Nobody's going to find this one either funny or intellectually challenging, nor is it particularly gory. Giallo fans will probably rate this one a star higher than I have.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
01/30/23
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Bôkô Kirisaki Jakku (aka Assault! Jack the Ripper) is definitely a nasty bit of Japanese exploitation from the 70's about two restaurant employees who accidentally kill a lunatic drifter (eerily reminiscent of the drifter scene in Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and dump her body in an old junkyard where they accidentally rip her vagina up. Scared to death, the two also become sexually crazed and start making love, thus realizing that the murder turns them on. Naturally, the two start going on a killing spree, as they abduct random women who they brutally torture and mutilate (in the vaginal area), then engage in filthy wild sex. Assault! Jack the Ripper doesn't spare its viewers and goes straight for the jugular with its overabundance of violence, gore, sex, and nudity. Just about every single women with a speaking line drops panties in this (and every since one of them is absolutely gorgeous in this). Lots of excellent nudity. As far as the deaths go, nothing ever gets too graphic, it's merely a lot of suggestion, but the suggestion is apparent enough to make its viewers very squeamish. Overall, the film is very enjoyable (especially for fans of exploitation, gore, and foreign films), but for those looking for lots of plot and story structure, you won't find too much of it here. This film is a definite and clear example of why the theory of "torture porn" is moronic. Those kinds of movies did NOT start with Hostel, folks. Don't buy into that hype.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
01/21/23
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Mean spirited and misogynistic entrance in the pinky violence circle. Filled with nasty violence, good acting, and hot, frequently, nude Japanese beauties.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/22/23
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