Based on White Carpet by Bryan Edgar Wallace, The Mad Executioners has fog — so much fog — and a serial killer who loves to cut the heads off of beautiful women. A mob is organized by a secret court — The Mad Executioners, anyone — forms and starts to hang anyone they think could be the killer. The rope they use comes from Scotland Yard’s crime museum.

John Hiller (Hansjörg Felmy) is assigned to these cases, and it’s personal because his sister was one of the victims. How bad does he want to solve this? His fiancée, Ann Barry (Maria Perschy), is used as bait for the killer, but gets kidnapped, and Hiller has to beat the mad executioners to the killer so he can save her. Plus, there are mad scientist moments and a horse-drawn carriage that brings criminals to be tried by the mystery court.

This combines krimi, Gothic horror and Giallo all in one delicious dish. Dig in!

This is part of the Terror of the Fog box set and has extras, including a new introduction by genre film expert and Video Watchdog founder Tim Lucas and audio commentary by Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby. You can get it from MVD.