'The Monster of Venice') is a 1965 Italian giallo film directed by Dino Tavella, and starring Gino Marturano, Alcide Gazzotto, and Alba Brotto.

The skull-faced murderer kills women by drowning them in the canals and taking their bodies back to his underwater lair (a submerged monastery) where he embalms them to preserve their beauty.

A handsome young reporter is assigned to cover a group of visiting college girls on a class trip to Venice and when one of them disappears, he becomes involved in trying to find her.

[5] Curti described the film as a giallo, while showing diverse influences such as borrowing elements from fumetti neri comics and dabbling into gothic horror.

"[6] Adrian Luther Smith called the film creepy but still a "run-of-the-submerged-monastery affair", adding "The filmmakers obviously received a great deal of assistance from the Venice tourist department because the movie is jam-packed with sly plugs for a gorgeous city which surely needs no promotion.