The College Girl Murders
The College Girl Murders is a 1967 film from West Germany, directed by Alfred Vohrer, running 88 minutes. reelscum files it under giallo and krimi.
- Year
- 1967 · 1960s films
- Country
- West Germany
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Director
- Alfred Vohrer
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (39/100)
- Also known as
- The Monk with the Whip
Defined in the glossary: Giallo, Krimi
The point where the black-and-white krimi tips over into full-colour giallo delirium.
Alfred Vohrer was the flashiest director the krimi cycle had, and this is his most delirious entry. A killer in red robes murders young women, poison gas hisses out of hollowed-out bibles, and a whip-cracking figure lurks behind a courtroom, all shot in lurid Eastmancolor the earlier black-and-white entries never risked. The plot is the usual Wallace machinery of heirs and hidden villains, but the presentation is pure proto-giallo, closer to Argento than to Scotland Yard. If you want to see exactly where the German mystery becomes the Italian one, it is right here.
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The cycle in depth
- The giallo, 1963 to 1976
A line of yellow paperbacks, a killer in black gloves, and Mario Bava building the American slasher a decade before Hollywood cashed the cheque.
On these lists
- Krimi: the German pulp thrillers
West Germany filmed most of Edgar Wallace in fog, with a hooded killer and a wildly overqualified cast. Comfort food with a body count.
Filed alongside
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
The one usually called the first giallo. Still half a krimi.
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
Martino at his most efficient. Nobody wastes a frame.
Short Night of Glass Dolls
Narrated by a paralysed man presumed dead. Unusual and very good.
Pieces
Spanish, incoherent, and gleefully stupid. 'Bastard! Bastard!'
The Black Belly of the Tarantula
The killer paralyses you first so you feel it. A first-rank giallo nobody name-checks.
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
Best title in the genre. Poe adaptation with Edwige Fenech and a black cat.
The Indian Scarf
Ten heirs in a Scottish castle, strangled one at a time. Kinski included.
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
A family curse, a killer in a red cloak, and a legend that kills every hundred years.
Hatchet for the Honeymoon
A bridal-couture killer who narrates his own psychosis, and the best ghost gag Bava ever staged.
The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh
The Martino/Fenech formula, arriving fully formed. Cut and retitled Blade of the Ripper in the US.
Death Walks on High Heels
Ercoli's best. Structurally cleverer than most of the cycle.
The Creature with the Blue Hand
Kinski playing both twins and a killer's claw that snaps shut like a bear trap. The krimi going out swinging.