Skragg Review of Kilink: Strip and Kill

Kilink: Strip and Kill (1967)

Completely "out there" Turkish adventure film

[7/10 · 27 May 2008]

Partial spoiler. Evidently Kilink grew out of those Italian photo novels, which I've never seen more than excerpts of, and I never saw this film till about ten days ago. Like the characters in those books (which are now being remade, evidently), he was evidently a colorful ruthless villain in the "Fantomas" tradition, but this film made him more of a ruthless colorful hero, so to speak. He comes between two rival gangs (both involved in spy plots too), and in between killing the men, he beds all of their female hangers-on, and doesn't hesitate to kill them too, usually in the same scene! Apart from being on FILM, it's really no more shocking than what you get from the hero in the "Destroyer" book series. The readers of that series always defend its originality, and I'm sure they're usually right, but now I wonder if its two writers ever saw this movie, with its tongue-in-cheek hero killing off mobsters and hot villainesses right and left. They might have gotten just a few pointers for the "Remo" character.