Assault
After rapes and a murder of schoolgirls, a teacher uses herself as bait to catch the perpetrator, aided by a reporter and against a psychologist's advice. Suspects include the headmistress's husband, the psychologist, or an unknow...
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"During the 60's and 70's when Hammer Studios ruled the industry the vast majority of genre movies that got released in the United Kingdom were either Gothic tales (practically all Hammer films), horror omnibuses (Amicus) or provocative exploitation films (courtesy of Pete Walker & Norman J. Warren). At the same time in Italy, a very different sub genre of horror was extremely popular and overflowing the market; namely the Giallo. This is basically a whodunit type of thriller, interlarded with sleaze, graphic violence and bizarre plot twists. Usually each country stuck to its ..."
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The film was re-released in the US in 1980 under the title "Satan's Playthings", with an ad campaign that made it appear that the movie was about three sexy women who worked for the devil. Roger Ebert blew the movie's cover on his Sneak Previews (1975) show when he picked the film as his "Dog of the Week" and told the audience that the film was really the 1971 British slasher flick "Assault".
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After rapes and a murder of schoolgirls, a teacher uses herself as bait to catch the perpetrator, aided by a reporter and against a psychologist's advice. Suspects include the headmistress's husband, the psychologist, or an unknow...