ThiefHott
Too much of everything
Mjeteconer
Just perfect...
Ava-Grace Willis
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Nigel P
Giallo involving a somewhat detached Klaus Kinski, who barely takes the time to remove his hands from his jacket pockets. For such an insanely powerful actor, he isn't allowed to do a great deal here, but that's because he's the mysterious masked killer. Isn't he?Also featured here are British actress Margaret Lee (as Cheryl Hume) and giallo legend Rosalba Neri (as Anne Palmieri). Also known as 'Cold Blooded Beast' and 'Slaughter Hotel', 'Asylum Erotica' is a fairly enjoyable thriller/horror/whodunit involving a murderer lurking around the grounds of a stately mental hospital. The location is tremendous, full of long and clinical rooms and corridors in which various graphic killings take place.There are some interesting directorial flourishes from the prolific Fernando Di Leo which especially enliven the more gruesome sequences. We get tantalising glimpses of bloodied corpses, mangled inmates and staff, and convincing stab wounds - so brief are these glimpses, that we are not quite sure what we have seen.This certainly doesn't push the boundaries of what can be achieved in this genre, but what it does, it does well. It would have been nice to have featured more of Kinski. With his wild and striking looks only barely made respectable by a white doctor's coat, you know his character Dr. Francis Clay might well be capable of crazed antics. Don't you?
GL84
Sent to a mental facility, a young woman finds that the asylum is the setting of a rampage against the residents and staff at the hands of a maniacal killer and tries to find a way of setting things straight once the bloodbath begins turning up more victims.This here turned out to be quite the impressive and enjoyably trashy giallo. With the main focus of the film stretched out in a large, gloriously Gothic villa there's an absolutely spectacular atmosphere here that makes the film seem far more suspenseful than it really should be as the massive lay-out, numerous long twisting hallways and cavernous structures providing the perfect foil for a location which is a rather suspenseful setting for such a film. That plays into the film's main enjoyable section here in that this one is so enjoyable trashy and sleazy that it really does come off far more watchable than it really should. With the Gothic atmosphere firmly established, that it utilizes these in conjunction with the utterly bizarre weaponry featured for the killing tools as on the wall of the communal sitting room is every medieval weapon any homicidal maniac could dream of, just hanging there for the plucking and there's even an iron maiden as a special bonus. That the absurdity of the situation, wherein this is supposedly a facility trying to nurture people's well-being would allow for such a devastating potential outcome makes this quite a sleazy time here almost as much as the other main fun to be had in it's copious nudity. The story has nearly the entire cast far more concerned with hitting the sack with the patient's, from forcing them into shower sessions, extended lesbian encounters scrubbing their bodies down with loofahs, enthusiastic butt massaging, hypnotically-erotic dance sessions and what seems like the main pastime at the château, indulging in languid self-pleasure between the sheets. These occur with such alarming frequency that it simply adds to the trashy charm of the film alongside the crude-if-unrelenting gore used for the kills which are given life due to the rather abundant torture tools on display. here. Though the majority of these are rather cheesy, there's a certain level of brutality inflicted in these scenes, from the assault on the patients in the garden to the utterly absolutely crazy finale where the killer strikes dozens of people across the head with a spiked mace that's rather chaotic. These here are the film's good points that manage to hold off the few flaws present. The main issue here is that sleaze and absurdity that flows throughout here might become something that works against it when this one really gets going, fully making for a bit of overkill at times. It's quite much for some, and there's a slew of things about it that makes for a challenging time. As well, the other issue here is the fact that there's no real mystery here for the strange killer running loose as it's quite obvious and doesn't come off as a surprise once it starts in, making for a little dull beginning as it sets this up which gives it away quite early. These here here it back even though there's some pretty enjoyable positives here.Rated Unrated/NC-17: Continuous Full Nudity, Hardcore Sex Scenes with plenty of stimulating touches, Language, Graphic Violence and drug use.
Woodyanders
A murderous mystery maniac wearing a hood and cape brutally butchers staff and patients alike at a posh all female asylum run by Dr. Keller (the one and only Klaus Kinski sporting modish long hair). Director Fernando Di Leo (who also co-wrote the sordid script with Nino Latino) really pours on the hardcore raunchy and explicit scuzziness in this alarmingly fetid flick, delivering extremely ample and explicit amounts of seamy sex and gory violence with jaw-dropping go-for-it slimy abandon. There's a real leering, nasty, rub-your-nose-in-the-filth grimy and graphic edge to this picture that's a terrifically trashy wonder to behold. Delectable brunette beauty Rosalba "The Devil's Wedding Night" Neri as the resident insatiable nympho ain't the least bit bashful about baring her sleek, shapely body in a much-appreciated steamy shower scene; she later strips in order to seduce the hunky gardener and gets killed while writhing naked in bed. The equally tasty Margaret "Venus in Furs" Lee, Jane Garret, Monica Strebel, and Giora Desideri all likewise dutifully doff their duds in the name of gleefully lowbrow exploitation. Silvano Spadaccino's groovy score neatly alternates between funky, percussive prog-rock and lush orchestral jazz. Franco Villa's snazzy cinematography goes gloriously overboard with crazy tilted angles, sinuous prowling tracking shots and crude, shaky hand-held camera-work. The murder set pieces are every bit as bloody, vicious and sleazy as they ought to be. The seriously sick and twisted over-the-top nutty ending concludes things on a perfectly putrid note. Good lowdown gritty and unapologetically scroungy fun.
saud29
Wow! You ever wonder why you are who you are, and how you got this way? I saw this movie in 1973 when I was 12 years old. Didn't know it at the time, but it was happily inappropriate for a group of impressionable pre-teens. My day camp counselor who was about 17 at the time took us to see this along with a karate flick ("The Hong Kong Cat"). It was classic - the counselor and his girlfriend drinking beer & sitting five rows behind nine raucous and rowdy 12 year olds. Then when the first solo shower scene of one of the inmates comes on, followed by a pretty sizzling interracial lesbian vignette, we were dead silent. "Slaughter Hotel" is a roller coaster ride of wood-inducing soft core action, followed by well, slaughter. There are spots where they try to make sense of the story, but its basically a maniac loose in a hospital where all of the female patients are lusty and attractive. I remember thinking how I could get a job at a place like that? Years later it reminded me of the Richard Speck episode from the sixties, where he killed 8 nurses in Chicago. I got this on VHS from Amazon a few years ago, and it maintains its ability to stimulate. Yeah we were all marked after that movie. We later graduated to hard core flicks on 42nd St in NYC, but I digress..Rent this if you can, and see if doesn't maintain your ah, interest. Klaus Kinski probably removed this from his resume, but I consider this one of the godfathers of there slasher genre.
