Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes.

Today’s theme: 1960s

Director and writer Gino Mangini claimed that he wrote hundreds of movies, but IMDB lists 21. There’s a lot of peplum on that list, as well as a very late in the day mondo, Mondo cane 2000 – L’incredibile, which was made in 1988 and directed by Gabriele Crisanti, the producer of Giallo In Venice, Burial Ground and Patrick Still Lives, three of the grimiest movies ever allowed to escape the camera. Oh yeah, he also produced Gesichter des Todes V. That’s right. The bootleg German Faces of Death 5.

1883 London: Martin “The Hyena” Bauer has been strangling people for three years before Scotland Yard finally brings him to the gallows. Except that his body disappears from the morgue and the killings start all over again.

Dr. Edward Dalton (Giotto Tempestini) believes that the killer is back from the grave, but he’s also dealing with his daughter Muriel (Patrizia Del Frae) dating a man not right for her named Henry Quinn (Luciano Stella who you know better as Tony Kendall). No problem, because Dalton’s assistant Dr. Anthony Finney (Angelo Dessy) frames Henry for the killings. But ahh…what if Dalton had been putting pieces of Bauer’s brain into his own and transferred the need to kill to himself?

I thought this was going to be an early giallo and it’s quite nearly a soap opera. But hey — the ending! What kind of bullshit science is that? Oh, Italian exploitation bullshit science.

The Francesco De Masi score for this movie was taken from Riccardo Freda’s The Ghost and would return again for Joe D’Amato’s Beyond the Darkness. And hey! There’s Luciano Pigozzi in the cast!