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| “ | What a shame. You almost got away. | „ |
| ~ Professor Isaacs when revealed as the killer |
Professor Isaacs (first name unknown) is the hidden main antagonist of the giallo film The Case of the Bloody Iris. The professor is the father of Sheila Isaacs, a tenant in an apartment building who's a closeted lesbian and has relationships with her neighbors. When the professor finds out, he snaps and kills the young, beautiful women in and around the building so Sheila won't pursue them.
He's portrayed by Argentine actor George Rigaud.
Biography[]
The professor first kills Luna, a prostitute who's solicited by a woman in the building, presumed to be Sheila. He puts on gloves, gags Luna with a hankie, and stabs her twice in her pelvis when they're alone in an elevator. He then leaves and presses a button to send her to Sheila's floor when she's out. He arrives as one of the neighbors, pretending to be horrified by seeing Luna dead and shouting at impatient crowds on the ground floor to shut up because of the murder. He's more formally introduced to the newest tenants, models Jennifer Langsbury and Marilyn Ricci, when Sheila befriends them and begins to have feelings for Jennifer, who doesn't reciprocate. He then sets his sights on a nightclub dancer on the floor, Mizar Harrington, who Sheila was having a relationship with. After putting on his mask and disguise, he knocks her out in her own apartment, ties her up in her own bathtub, and slowly drowns her. he's inspired to wear yellow gloves, a hat, a mask, and an overcoat, as local peeping tom David Moss spies on and harasses women in the building with the same costume because of his disfigurements, in the hopes David would be framed.
In the meantime, a cult leader Jennifer escaped, Adam, was stalking her, breaking into the apartment to kidnap her back to his sex cult. The professor had already broken into her apartment, hoping to kill her and Marilyn. The professor stabbed Adam to death and shoved him in a wardrobe, where Jennifer, Marilyn, and Sheila found him. Jennifer suspected David due to his constant burglaries to grope her, but his mother, Mrs. Moss, hid him well, and the police didn't believe her. The professor used the distraction, and the presence of building manager Andrea Antinori, who Jennifer fell in love with, to stab Marilyn when she came back from shopping. She stumbled to Andrea for help and covered him with her blood, so people suspected him and he fled. In truth, he had hemophobia from losing his parents in a car crash, but he was still suspected. Even Jennifer turned on him by the time she and Sheila went to the boiler room for answers, where the professor tried to burn Jennifer with a steam pipe, but he killed Sheila instead from not watching closely enough. Isaacs planned his final attack, killing David in the Isaacs' apartment and luring Jennifer with a tape recording of the professor's violin playing to find David. He trapped her and took off his disguise to reveal himself, then knocked her out with chloroform. He planned to make it look like she and David plummeted off the building's stairway, but Andrea stopped Isaacs in a lengthy fight. When Isaacs tried to kill him, Andrea kicked him over the stairway, and Isaacs died on impact. Andrea was later exonerated for everything, and when another sex worker is called to the building, it's implied Sheila isn't the woman who called Luna.
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