The Embalmer

Beauty after beauty dragged to a sunken crypt… petrified play-captives of The Embalmer.

A masked killer stalks the canals of Venice, abducting young women to preserve their beauty through mummification. As the disappearances escalate, a journalist investigates the grisly mystery, uncovering a secret lair beneath an ancient monastery. The hunt for the embalmer culminates in a tense confrontation amid the eerie, waterlogged crypts.

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  The Monster of Venice is easily one of the least memorable gialli of the period. The story seems to have been patterned on the Vincent Price hit House of Wax (1953), itself a remake of an earlier film titled Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), but there is precious little here in the way of invention or originality. The thriller aspects are negligible, the film moves at a glacial pace and there is far too much padding as the director focuses on the obvious beauty of the Venetian locale.