'The Knife in the Body') is a 1966 slasher giallo film directed by Lionello De Felice and Elio Scardamaglia.

[1] It stars William Berger, Françoise Prévost, Harriet White Medin, Mary Young, and Barbara Wilson.

In 1870s England, Dr. Vance (William Berger), the director of a mental hospital, is secretly carrying out skin grafts on the patients in an attempt to restore his sister-in-law's mutilated face (she accidentally fell into a lime pit).

[1] The music was composed by Francesco De Masi[1] Roberto Curti, author of Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969, described The Murder Clinic as an example of the way Italian gothic horror films evolved into the giallo genre in the 1970s.

"[6] He found the film "not up to some of the pix of Riccardo Freda or Mario Bava" but " noting its strength in its photography and visual look but that "the direction and scripting itself in on an inevitably elementary level, and the few attempts at "horror" via closups of Delphi Maurin's acid-disfigured face come off crudely.