Das siebente Opfer (The Seventh Victim) was released in English speaking countries as The Racetrack Murders. Based on a novel by Bryan Edgar Wallace, it’s one of several films — hey, we covered a bunch this week — by Rialto Film, who had succes making movies based on the books of his father, Edgar Wallace. This comes from Murder Is Not Enough.

Directed and written by Franz Josef Gottlieb, this is all about how the son of a British racehorse owner and a bookie work together to ruin the odds of his father’s thoroughbred, Satan, being a winner. Insurance fraud is more important to the Krimi, where the Giallo would just kill you. No, the German movie bad guys want to take your diamonds. Or cash. And then kill you. Or, if you’re watching this movie, throw a snake at a horse and then watch it’s jockey die as the result!

This is part of the Terror In 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.