The Sinister Monk (1965)
- 1965
- ·87 min
Ein vermummter Serienmörder findet einen neuartigen Weg, seine Opfer zu ermorden – er peitscht sie mit einer Peitsche zu Tode.
Die Polizei versucht, ihn aufzuspüren, bevor es zu weiteren Morden kommt.
- Schauspieler
- Harald Leipnitz·Karin Dor·Siegfried Lowitz·Siegfried Schürenberg
- Regie geführt von
- Harald Reinl
- Genre
- Mystery·Thriller
- Sprache
- German
- Land
- Germany
- Director
- Harald Reinl
I'm not really much of an expert on the German sub-genre known as the Krimi. It seemed to be the predominant European mystery-thriller genre before the Italian giallo went into hyper-drive at the dawn of the 70's.
"Der unheimliche Mönch" or "The Sinister Monk" is a German movie from 1965, so it is already over 50 years old. The director is Harald Reinl and he made this one before moving on to Winnetou when Vohrer continued with the Edgar Wallace franchise.
After having enjoyed my intro to the Krimi sub-genre with the fun The Secret of the Black Trunk,I decided the for my next taste of the Krimi cream that I would take a look at one of the titles that starred "the queen of the Krimi's":Karin Dor.The plot:Attending the reading of their fathers will shortly after having loyal sat by his bedside as he died,the family are horrified to hear from their dad's solicitor,that just before he died,their father changed his will,so that the only thing the his "loyal" family get,would be a boarding school that his daughter (Lady Patricia) has been running for years,with the rest of his property and cash all going to his beloved granddaughter Gwendolin.
