Arrow Video USA commands beautiful models to STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER with their Blu-ray of Andrea Bianchi's sleazy giallo.

An assailant in black bicycle leathers and helmet goes on a castrating killing spree starting with a gynecologist (Filippo La Neve, DEATH OCCURRED LAST NIGHT) before moving to the photographers and models of the Albatross Advertising Agency. The police commissioner (Lucio Como, GANG WAR IN MILAN) is at a loss to make the connection between the doctor, the subsequent victims, and the suspects: among them womanizing photographer Carlo (Nino Castelnuovo, CAMILLE 2000), his apprentice Magda (Edwige Fenech, THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH) who shares his bed but still yearns to be objectified by him, gay photographer Mario (Claudio Pellegrini, DEATH WALKS AT MIDNIGHT), possessive lesbian agency boss Gisella (Amanda), her impotent husband Maurizio (Franco Diogene, THE STENDHAL SYNDROME) who nevertheless preys on the models, Patrizia (Solvi Stubing, BLINDMAN) who is currently top model due to her involvement with both of them, Carlo's new discovery Lucia (Femi Benussi, BLOODY PIT OF HORROR) who is not above bedding and blackmail to get to move up in the business, and model Doris (Erna Schurer, DEPORTED WOMEN OF THE SS) who is being pimped by her model boyfriend Stefano (Wainer Verri). Of course, the commissioner has no idea about the death from cardiac arrest of model Evelyn during a botched abortion that was covered up as a bathtub drowning. Recognizing a significant clue but unaware of its significance, Magda drags Carlo into a private investigation unaware that he is particularly compromised among the victims or suspects.

A typically sleaze work from Andrea Bianchi (BURIAL GROUND) that looks forward to the likes of lower tier gialli like GIALLO IN VENICE or THRAUMA – the 1980 Gianni Martucci slasher-esque giallo not the correctly spelled 1992 Dario Argento film or the video retitling of Alberto Negrin's ENIGMA ROSSO – STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER feels like less of a comedown for Catherine Deneuve's THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG co-star Castelnuovo than for giallo queen Fenech (who nevertheless manages to maintain her air of aloofness despite shedding her clothes in nearly every scene). Although Milan is the fashion capitol of Italy, Bianchi and crew drag grime into even the most picturesque locations in the city, with the fashion studio looking more girlie magazine than haute couture. The sleaze quotient ensures plenty of nudity with the models (along with Castelnuovo) stripping nude for more than just their killer. Castelnuovo is an amusingly scuzzy protagonist who is more interested in bedding models with Fenech's Magda doing much of the investigative footwork. The identity of the killer is not much of a surprise reveal since the suspects have been whittled down to victims by that point, but the explanation of the killer's motives is intriguingly clouded by the desire of one of the protagonists to obfuscate their own role in the proceedings. The Techniscope photography of Franco Delli Colli (ZEDER) is colorful but workmanlike, but the jazzy scoring of Berto Pisano (INTERRABANG) hits the right notes even as its main theme rips off The Temptations' "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" with some nice innovations in its own lust instrumentation.

Unreleased in the United States theatrically or on home video, STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER was first available in English-friendly form on a 2004 German hardbox edition from X-Rated Kult Video followed by a 2005 American DVD from Blue Underground and a British edition from Shameless in 2008. The first Blu-ray edition came from Blue Underground in 2012 adding an Italian track and English subtitles for English and Italian dubs while the transfer itself was merely okay with the usual scanner noise inherent in older Italian 1080p transfers. Arrow Video's US-only Blu-ray is derived from a new 2K scan from the original camera negative. This is a predominantly dark film but neons and other highlighted details really pop while the red darkroom safelights are positively hellish. The enhanced detail reveals more of the quickly glimpsed mutilations afflicted on the victims, including its female victims whose wounds were not always so apparent before. English and Italian LPCM 1.0 mono tracks are included along with SDH and English subtitles. Italian or English credits and tinted or untinted opening – here digitally recreated – selectable via main menu and encoded with seamless branching. Unlike some other Arrow Video releases with dual language versions and credits sequences, the viewer cannot toggle between the two audio or subtitle tracks via remote while the pop-up setup menu only allows for subtitles to be turned on or off.

The Blue Underground Blu-ray included a featurette with actress Stubing and co-writer Massimo Felisatti (THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE) while the Arrow Blu-ray starts off its array of extras with an audio commentary by Horrorpedia.com's Adrian J. Smith (author of the early British giallo tome BLOOD AND BLACK LACE) and The Reprobate Press' David Flint who discuss the film's tonal shifts and its resemblance to a CARRY ON comedy, noting that the 1979 British double bill with SISTER EMANUELLE was symptomatic of British distributors' treatment of many gialli as sex films rather than thrillers, and placing the film in a tier of gialli occupied by SLAUGHTER HOTEL, TORSO, and GIALLO IN VENICE. "Sex and Death with a Smile" (23:02) is video essay by author and critic Kat Ellinger on giallo and sex comedy icon Fenech, discussing the French-Algerian model's start in film before coming to notice by Luciano Martino during the German/Italian THE SINS OF MADAME BOVARY which had its running time beefed up by a new scene shot by Sergio Martino, Bava's FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON, her trio of Sergio Martino gialli (along with the related CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS), the Bianchi film, and her move into fashion and television production (with Fenech reuniting with Sergio Martino as producer and star of the TV miniseries giallo PRIVATE CRIMES).