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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.

I will start by saying that in the Director's Interview, Di Leo admits outright that he did no research on mental institutions when he decided to make a film based on, well, mental institutions. When asked how he got along with the actresses on set, he replies, "They had good bodies." He also admits that he didn't like the film, but he is glad others do. This is really all you need to know about the film. No, wait… there is more.

Slaughter Hotel's original ad campaign played upon the idea that the film is "Based on a True Story", which means it really wasn't. It was compared to the crimes of Chicago mass-murderer Richard Speck (who actually killed student nurses and not patients), but is technically unrelated.

The premise of the film is to not be grounded in reality. Or that is my interpretation at least. Basically, this is a mental institution running in a castle complete with armored knights. The only patients they admit are young, beautiful women with a problem of running around naked for no apparent reason. The film has about 20 sex scenes, which are repeated in flashbacks as though I would forget, so I guess it is more like 115 times people have sex on screen. Ugh, there is no mystery here. I think Di Leo forgot he was making a horror film. I guess a couple girls die later leading to a tacked on, lame ending.

The major problems with the flick are many. There is highly inappropriate music resembling The Love Boat. The sound quality is bad with constant thudding and a poor transition between music and background noise. Klaus Kinksi, the lead actor, stands around with nothing to do. Di Leo has no idea what mental stability and instability is.

The scenes in this film are beyond bizarre. My favorite of which is when a Black patient hearing drums says, "This must be from my native country. I must have danced to this when I was a child." Yes folks, that's right, she proceeds to dance like a chicken and finish it off by having lesbian sex with her nurse. The rest of the film is pretty much the same. Nude massages & sponge baths, full-on female masturbation sequences, etc.

I felt like I was watching porn with bad dialogue, but I guess that would be redundant because that's what porn is. Sex, bad dialogue, and some more sex.

Nothing in this film makes sense. There is no linear plot, no mystery, and no one cares. I honesty think this was a wet dream Di Leo had. I was waiting for the flying unicorn to tackle the leprechaun for his pot of gold. And then have sex with it.

Favorite Quote – Doctor says to Female Patient, "Your desire to make love is excessive. Now go take a shower."

Extras: Well, I guess there was a Still Gallery, Trailers, and Interviews. As stated before, it includes educational commentary from the director.

Bottom Line: Ultimate sleazefest with minimal gore and zero intelligence. If you like sleaze, I recommend buying it. You will be happy. If you want a good giallo, then set this on fire, do a dance around it, and hope that God will send you anything from Argento, the Bavas, or anyone else that is Italian.

Rating: I guess it depends on your mood. Either 3/10 or 7/10.

Molly Celaschi www.HorrorYearbook.com MySpace.com/HorrorYearbook

With the retreat of film censorship in Europe and the US in the late 1960s and early 1970s the makers of exploitation films were left loose on the somewhat unsuspecting cinema goer. Both gore and sex content of such films increased dramatically, while less care was taken to embed the spectacle in a coherent, gripping and believable story. This was particularly obvious in the Italian Giallo, a genre that emerged in those years from the traditional Italian horror film and the German Edgar Wallace thrillers.

Here we have a typical example of the genre: a serial killer is on the loose , we see gruesome and gory (but stylish) killings that do not reveal the identity of the murderer, have some sex thrown in at good measure, and are finally rather disappointed when the murder mystery is solved.

Asylum Erotica is set in a mental hospital for the very rich, on some isolated location in the countryside. The asylum is run by Dr. Keller -- played by Klaus Kinski in one of his many personifications of psychiatrists. The patients are busy having a good time, including the inevitable hanky -panky (come in Rosalba Neri as the resident nymphomaniac), when suddenly corpses are starting to pile up. Apparently, they have been killed with some medieval weapons that are conveniently on open display in the lounge. Why has nobody considered them a safety hazard -- this is a mental hospital , after all? Why aren't they tucked away after the first killing(s)? We shall never know.

Clearly, this isn't a great film, but it is still quite watchable, certainly if you like Eurosleaze. For fans of Kinski and Neri this is a 'must'.

"Slaughter Hotel" is quite a perplexing film experience… Not so much because of its brilliance, uniqueness or professionalism but because it's so damn addictive despite being one of the most poorly scripted horror film ever made. This is one giant trashy mess in which story-logic, atmosphere and character drawings have all been skipped in favor of more luscious nudity and sleaze. We're welcomed in a resting home for hot & wealthy ladies, with mental problems going from burnouts to nymphomania. There's a team of strange doctors, unprofessional nurses and even a hunky gardener at these ladies' service to help them get over whatever problems they got. In order to make "Slaughter Hotel" at least somewhat resemble to a giallo, director Fernando DiLeo also introduces a mad-raving murderer, typically dressed in black and using the institution's old-fashioned armory decoration as slashing tools. All put together, this results in extended sequences of females having any form of sex (masturbation, lesbian action or actual sex) before brutally getting killed. The basics of exploitation cinema, maybe, but nonetheless a bad movie with too many tedious moments and totally wasting a great cast. I don't think you're meant to care for the killer's identity as his/her motivations largely remain unexplained at the end. There are a lot of things that don't make the least bit of sense (butt-massages??) and the girls, for some reason, all have extended flashbacks with completely irrelevant contents. I suppose that was done to reach a playtime of 90 minutes. Klaus Kinski looks terrifically vicious with his long blond hair but even his presence can't bring much redemption. The murders are gory (especially the grand finale!) but not the least bit disturbing. "Slaughter Hotel" is worth watching for fans of Italian horror but I'm sure everyone will acknowledge that it's nothing more than a poor man's Sergio Martino, Dario Argento or Mario Bava.

A psychiatric clinic located in the quiet countryside is run by Doctor Clay : Klaus Kinski , there stays various female patients. This is a hospital with an inferno of femine desires where people die murdered one after another, piling up a number of corpses . As a heinous cloaked murderer is executing a criminal spree by using medieval weapons against the unfortunate victms who he has previously stalked . Who is the killer ? . Carved out today's headlines ! A place where nothing is forbidden ! Where the sick get sicker... Murder by murder ! Victim by victim ! All 8 died !

An Eurosleaze slasher with thrills , chills , high body-count , nudism , ominous stabbing and lots of blood and gore . A crime movie set at a rehabilitation hospital for women suffering mental disorder in which see see the slashing massacre of eight innocent nurses , as they are killed one by one . The psychological clinical has several female patients with disturbing illness as nymphomany , agarophobia , and other lesbian women , that's it displays lots of nudism in charge of beautiful scream girls as Margaret Lee , Monica Strebel, Desideri , Jane Garret , Carla Mancini and special mention for gorgeous Rosalba Neri who played various exploitation movies and here she provides some really erotic naked scenes by playing a nymphomanic patient .

In addition , it displays a strange and mysterious musical score . As well as atmospheric cinematography by Franco Villa , though a perfect remastering being necessary . Shot on location in Castel Fusano, Lacio , Rome , Italy . The motion picture was middlingly directed by Fernando Di Leo . Fernando was an expert writer and director . Firstly , he wrote notorious Spaghetti Westerns as Fistful of dollars , For a Fistful of Dollars more , Ringo , The return of Ringo , Johnny Yuma , 7 Guns for the McGregor , 7 women for the McGregor , Sugar Colt , Johnny Yuma , Joe the Implacable , The Ruthless four . Turning in filmmaking he made all kinds of genres as sex comedies : Loaded guns , Italian Sex , La Seductione and Victims of Lust . Outstanding in Poliziesco subgenre such as : I Boss , The American connection , La Mala Ordinaria , Shoot first die later , Running Guns , Madness , Razza Violenta , Killers vs Killers , among others . Rating : so-so and mediocre Giallo .

I knew beforehand that Di Leo's sole foray into the giallo subgenre didn't have a good reputation, but I couldn't have anticipated that it would be so lame! As a matter of fact, it almost challenges Riccardo Freda's TRAGIC CEREMONY (1972) for the title of the poorest and most bewildering vintage film by a renowned Euro-Cult director I've ever watched!

Despite its violent outbursts - mostly confined to the second half - typical of Di Leo (one particularly vicious episode at the very end, which leaves numerous victims, has to be seen to be believed), he shows no real feeling for - or even much interest in - this type of film! In fact, a good deal of the running time is devoted to exploitative erotic content featuring nymphomaniac Rosalba Neri and a lesbian relationship between a nurse and a black patient!

With respect to technique, the editing is particularly sloppy: sometimes it seems like the editor has fallen asleep on the job, with several scenes going on for much longer than is required (beginning with the very first scene of the killer prowling the asylum grounds - though before the credits had even rolled, more than just my brain cells had suddenly snapped to attention with the appearance of a fully naked Margaret Lee {one of my favorite Euro-Cult starlets} tossing and turning in bed; regrettably, this is her only nude scene in the entire film!); occasionally, however, there are disorientating tilted shots and a series of pointless - and irritating - rapid cuts of two converging locations (for instance, the killer approaching a victim's room); besides, we get all kinds of people having flashes to earlier scenes, but the shots are so randomly chosen as to make no sense whatsoever!

The score, usually a prominent feature in a giallo, occasionally delivers but it's too uneven (the killer's theme is dreadful, for instance) to really count as a success; indeed, the only worthwhile element to the whole film is the casting of three Jess Franco alumni in the lead roles: the aforementioned Lee (despite the fact that her role doesn't give her much scope) and Neri (who, at least, gets to shed her clothes quite often and takes a shower memorably), and Klaus Kinski as an enigmatic and wild-looking doctor who becomes romantically involved with Lee - even if his contribution is a listless take-the-money-and-run turn, seemingly there only to serve as a red herring!

By the way, the notorious and mystifying audio glitch found on the version (horrendously dubbed in English and actually bearing the on-screen title of COLD-BLOODED BEAST) released by Media Blasters - which also plagued the copy I watched - is a real pain in the neck...

AKA Slaughter Hotel, Italian giallo set in a country villa which is a clinic for rich, beautiful women with mental issues. Naturally there is a masked killer who is murdering these women in gruesome ways, one by one. Unlike many other giallo movies the plot here is a simple one, which is no bad thing as they can often be too confusing and unbelievable. This film also throws in a great deal of sex and nudity, some of which is very sleazy & graphic but personally I think that it added to it's charm, or should I say notoriety! As with so many Italian movies from this era it is beautifully shot & having just seen this on blu ray (as Cold Blooded Beast) it really looked good. Add in Klaus Kinski, one of my favourite actors, and this film ticks all the right boxes for me.

This minor shocker from Italy has a few fairly brutal slayings and several nude scenes involving b-movie veteran Rosalba Neri, but little else to recommend it, even to jaded schlock seekers.

The setting, a high-end sanatorium set in a remote château, is completely unbelievable, as are the doctors and nurses who work there (or more accurately commit malpractice there). Who puts a psychiatric facility in an old château filled with scary medieval weaponry and doesn't keep the dang things locked up? And why is the grounds keeper always wandering around on upper floors where the patients rooms are? The average weekly ER viewer has more medical savvy than is in evidence here, and the worst offender is Klaus Kinski, who looks WAAYYY too creepy to be a psychiatrist. A patient? Yeah, maybe. Anyway, most of the screen time is taken up with patients demonstrating strange compulsions while the staff cluck tolerantly and promise to make them well. Yeah, right. I would not trust any of them to treat a cold sufferer. The main problem is the script, which has the feel of having been made up on the spot, with no research time spent to acquire a feel for how psychiatric medicine is practiced, or what a sanatorium should look like, or how psychiatric patients with real disorders act or anything. With little credible drama to drive the story forward and almost no suspense, the viewer has just about nothing of interest to watch between slayings. This is a common problem with many slasher movies: a few moments of shock punctuate long stretches of unwatchable dead time. In a well made thriller, the viewer is carried from one high point to the next by developing a suspenseful or creepy atmosphere, but there is none of that here. Boring!

A host of Italian beauties with psychological problems, varying from stress to nymphomania are resident in an isolated country mansion for the mentally disturbed. A masked and cloaked killer is at large within the house, using varieties of medieval weapons that bedeck the walls of the old Gothic mansion, his victims are the both the guests and the nurses, but what is his/her motive? First off, any film that casts Klaus Kinski as doctor in charge of the insane has got to be worth a watch, Di Leo gathers a decent cast of Giallo regulars that also includes Rosalba (Fingers) Neri, Margaret Lee Jane Garret and Monica Strebel, all of whom are happy to get their kit off and let their lustful needs be catered for by whatever means available, for this institution is rather lax in security and it would seem ethics, as staff and patients get together for regular steamy liaisons. The pace is slow to begin with as we are awkwardly introduced to the main characters with some truly atrocious dubbed dialogue, but the killings and sleazy sex that verges of hardcore, soon help relieve that oversight. The Gothic location is superb and adds immensely to the atmosphere with its many medieval weapons, torture devices and suits of armour that adorn its many corridors, very inappropriate for a mental hospital with violent patients freely roaming the building, but this is a giallo and suspension of disbelief is required. There is little in the line of a cohesive plot and as a viewer you won't even care about the identity of the killer, whose motives are left rather unclear when finally revealed, but this is a fun sleazy film, I didn't think I'd like it after about 15 minutes but it soon grew on me. The film other than that has a superb print, but very poor quality sound that seems to have been taken from many copies of the film in an attempt to get any sort of quality. The score by Silvano Spadaccino sounds familiar and its main sinister theme is excellent, some of the lesser compositions seem to be from another film though and don't quite suit the visuals, but I have to say it's a film that is better than the sum of its parts and certainly more entertaining than some reviewers might have you believe.

A long-haired Klaus Kinski plays the doctor in charge of an isolated lunatic asylum.Of course the patients are all beautiful women with various sexual problems.And of course they're being killed off in various gruesome and sadistic ways.Writer/director Fernando Di Leo specialized in violent,sleazy mafia movies like "The Italian Connection" or "Mister Scarface"."Slaughter Hotel" is his only giallo,but it contains tons of sleaze and misogynistic violence.Euro-horror goddess Rosalba Neri is amazingly sensual as the resident nymphomaniac.Her sex scene with the gardener is hotter than hell.The film was originally released in Europe as "The Cold Blooded Beast".All the actresses including Rosalba Neri, Margaret Lee,Monica Stroebel,Jane Garret and Gioia Desideri are very attractive and provide lots of female flesh.There is obligatory lesbian sequence between Stroebel and Garret and strikingly sleazy Neri's masturbation scene.The action drags sometimes,but the climax is a suitably frenzied and audacious.Give this sleaze classic a look.10 out of 10.

Another reviewer refers to this as being 'sensationally sleazy and spectacularly silly,' a view with which I must concur. Sad though this is for a film directed by Fernando Di Leo and starring Rosalba Neri and Klaus Kinski, it does not mean that it is not entertaining. Di Leo has made fine films and written even more but there is little evidence of the director here apart from the odd flourish of curious angles or startling overhead shots. Kinski spends his time smoking, looking suspicious or waiting for some dialogue. Neri probably works harder than anyone, is probably out of her clothes more than she is in them and has fairly protracted and explicit scenes. Overall then, a mess but with such absurd and extreme elements that for the broad minded it can be quite irresistible. There is a fascination in watching such a car crash or as here, in particular, the blood ooze from within an iron maiden or a naked woman being enthusiastically axed to death.

This film begins with a shot of a guy walking...and walking...and walking some more...and climbing some stairs...and walking again...and then walking some more...GAH! Somehow, I managed to stay awake long enough to see the first in a very long line of beautiful young women who sleep in the nude, the camera zooming in on her naughty bits. At that point, I gave up any hope I may have had of being entertained. Not even a badly dubbed Klaus Kinski could save this wretched mess.

An isolated countryside mental institution, which only admits young, oversexed, stunningly beautiful women with no less than a C cup bra size, is being terrorized by a masked killer. Conveniently, the asylum is packed with weapons! Crossbows, axes, antique daggers, iron maidens...you name it, it's here, all within reach of the seriously disturbed patients. Yeah. Right.

The DVD box claims that Kinski was at his manic best in this film. BS!!! Kinski sleepwalks through the entire film with a smug half smile on his face and a cigarette in one hand. He doesn't do much else. The rest of the film is filled with voluptuous women who enjoy bathing each other, dancing in the nude and pleasuring themselves, complete with shocking camera close- ups of their lady places. This is a porno film with a couple of bloody murders thrown in at the end. The identity of the killer is absurd, the "shocking murders of 8 nurses!!!" is really really lame, the blood looks like Tabasco sauce, even the sex scenes are ridiculous. If you really have a need to see Sarah Bay tonguing a couple of orderlies shortly before she's chopped up with an antique ax, hey, go for it. But if you like Klaus Kinski as much as I do, stick with Werner Herzog and stay far away from this mess.

As a giallo this movie is a real disappointment. The plot is virtually non-existent, the suspense is nil, aside from the widescreen compositions the cinematography is unimpressive, and I'm sure the occasionally interesting score was recycled from a better movie. Klaus Kinski obviously phoned in his performance (long-distance with a very bad connection) and Rosalba Neri (aka Sarah Bay) is pretty much wasted.

On the other hand, if you're looking for softcore porn, this movie is a relative masterpiece. The crisp cinematography is superior to just about anything else in that genre, and you have an elegant Italian instrumental score as opposed to the usual, grating wah-wah synthesizer. The plot may be anemic, but it certainly doesn't interfere with any of the action. Even sleepwalking through their respective roles, Neri and Kinski can act circles around your typical softcore sex performer. Kinski, of course, does not actually perform any sex scenes (which is good--we're talking Klaus here, not Natassia). Neri, on the other hand, has done many sex scenes in much better movies, but I'm confident no one will complain about her scenes here, even if they don't exactly show off her considerable acting talent. As in many European movies, Neri's "solo" sex scene really pushes the line between softcore and hardcore, but in the best possible way. Only the ending is terrible regardless. It comes out of nowhere and will appeal only to fans of medieval weaponry and/or the Richard Speck student nurse murders.

I'm not sure how this is sometimes mentioned in the same breath as the works of Fulci and Argento. What a joke. It's like the difference between a car and a matchbox car.

You'd be hard pressed to find redeeming qualities about this stinker. The script, the acting, the special effects... it's all garbage. What's worse is the blatantly extended scenes of someone just walking around a house. I don't need the play by play of someone walking through every single room to get to their destination.

Many people (like me) will be suckered into watching this because Klaus Kinski is in it. Don't bother. He is criminally underused. He's not given anything interesting to do or say. Literally anyone could have been cast for his part.

Stay away from this turd.

I saw the version entitled "Slaughter Hotel," although this movie has been retitled multiple times in order to have appeal in multiple genres.

Slaughter Hotel tells the story of a group of wealthy women who have been committed at an institution to rid themselves of their problems. There is one woman who is a nymphomaniac (which means that she jumps any guy she can, and rubs herself against walls when no one is around). Then, there is the lesbian woman (who conveniently has a lesbian nurse to take care of her). Also, there is a suicidal, homicidal woman, who serves no purpose. Finally, there is the "cured" woman who has had her rest, and will be going back into the real world shortly. All of these woman get completely naked. So, if you are looking for naked women, this is the film for you.

Then a killer comes and starts killing them. That's all.

The most hilarious aspect of this film is how these women are treated. They stand around, drinking and smoking, while the doctors come around and chat with them. The patients can come and go as they please, and do what they like. Also for their amusement, there are a series of torture devices placed around the room -- knives, swords, ball and chain, etc. It seems as though all the patients are sexually involved with the doctors or employees in one form or another.

I think the camara man was drunk in this movie. At random periods throughout the film, the camara would move randomly from side to side or fall forward to the ground, giving the impression that the camara man had tripped.

This film was utterly hilarious. One of the all-time great bad movies. If there wasn't so much sex and violence, this movie would be a prime candidate for MST3K. I strongly recommend it, if you like unintentionally bad movies. I gave it a 10 out of 10!

This giallo is really more interested in sexploitation, with for the period a considerable amount of full-frontal female nudity, which I assume was cut out in some countries. (In fact the sexual content in the print I saw was pretty explicit for 1971).

You can tell Di Leo had little affinity for the material, since he doesn't bother much with atmosphere or credibility, just finding opportunities to undress the actresses before they are killed off by some caped, masked maniac wandering an upscale mental hospital of sorts. Apparently it only accepts attractive young women as clients, and between the lack of any apparent rehab plus their elaborate dress, hair and makeup at all times, the premise is flimsy AF. It's made even flimsier by the fact that the location is some sort of centuries-old grand manor that has all its historic mementos still on-site. Because what could be better for patients with mental issues than having swords, axes, crossbows and instruments of torture scattered around as decor?

So, OK, there's not much plot or suspense or logic here, and the violent setpieces aren't memorable. The revelation of the murderer's identity is so "whatever," I couldn't even remember whether we'd previously been introduced to that character before.

But Di Leo does pay ample attention to composition, to the use of music (even if that music is very much retro Euro-kitsch), and other stylistic elements, so this is an exceptionally well-crafted bit of brainless nonsense-it's fun to watch, though pretty indefensible as anything other than sleaze of an unusually professional grade. Don't expect much from Klaus Kinski, though. He is barely utilized, awkward in his few scenes as one of the institution's resident doctors, and though he seems meant to provide a sympathetic and handsome male lead, has seldom been less attractive. (It's strange to think that just the next year he would be so completely commanding in "Aguirre"-that actor was impossibly magnetic, this one seems just inept.)

It's a very silly movie that after a while seems to have no story at all, just a series of sexy interludes (including a lame dance sequence for two women) punctuated by the killer's attacks during one long night where no one seems to notice anything amiss. What can I say? It's bad, but not exactly in a "so bad it's good way"-it's not laughable, just enjoyably trashy in a highly polished and dated way. Can you imagine someone making it now? Of course not. And that is exactly the charm of it.

Slaughter Hotel is a sensationally sleazy and spectacularly silly giallo. It involves a mystery killer who stalks and slashes in a clinic for mentally disturbed women. This clinic is ideal for the purposes of a homicidal maniac as it contains a room with an arsenal of medieval weapons and torture devices. The film-makers find no reason to explain this. It does seem a trifle irresponsible considering some of the inmates have murderous tendencies. But there you go. The clinics other feature is a croquet green - I can honestly say I have never before seen a movie where croquet and medieval weaponry share the billing.

The doctors include a Peter Fonda lookalike and the legendary Klaus Kinski. In the Shriek Show DVD Klaus has a really silly English accent but it isn't as distracting as it might be as Kinski basically sleepwalks through this movie. The women are pretty hot though. Rosalba Neri turns up and delivers classic dialogue like 'I'm not one of those mad people who need you, I just want to make love' before going off for a soft-core shower. Generally speaking the dialogue in this movie is atrocious, it's not exactly helped by the appalling dubbing but it is very (unintentionally) funny in places. However, the cinematography is pretty decent, incorporating a great deal of angular camera-work. And the set itself is pretty lush, recalling the colourful interior decor from Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace. A good thing. The mix of Gothic and giallo imagery is unusual and occasionally arresting. The music by Silvano Spadaccino is pretty forgettable, incorporating Euro-cheese and an insistent piano soundtrack when the killer is on the prowl. When the murders do happen they are impressively unconvincing. Occasionally laughably so. But they are often super-sleazy. In most giallos the sex interrupts the violence, in this film Di Leo takes the opposite approach. There is a very high sleaze factor. It occasionally even enters (if you excuse the pun) hardcore territory with some really graphic female masturbatory action. There is copious other soft-core fumblings, including a memorable butt massage. In fairness, Di Leo handles the sex better than the violence. Ultimately, Slaughter Hotel falls into the same category of giallo as Renato Polselli's Delirium, i.e. it's basically a bad movie that sort of gets away with it by way of its unrestrained Euro grind-house excess.

This is not hinted at in this movie, but it seems that rich husbands dropped off their (not so) crazy wives (hey! is nymphomania really that bad when the woman is this great looking?) in this asylum where they are mysteriously knocked off. I do not want to reveal the killer, but his position makes you wonder what his real motives must have been. I think this is the movie Alfred Hitchcock wanted to make when he did "Psycho".

"Cold Blooded Beast"/"La bestia uccide a sangue freddo"/"Slaughter Hotel"/Asylum Erotica" is a well made movie. Acting is decent, flow of the movie is nice and my only complaint is that flashback scenes have a very irritating sound effect. There is a lot of nudity and very decent nudity at that (some of it is quite graphic though). Problem lies in the fact that this movie doesn't know what it wants to be. Erotic parts of the movie are clearly in the spotlight, while the horror part of the movie is a complete miss and feel awfully tacked on to the whole thing. Seriously, don't expect anything more than a masked murderer sneaking throughout the building and killing women in mostly boring ways. There are no creepy moments or tense scenes, no chase scenes, nothing... It's a shame, because, despite it's focus on the erotica, the movie manages to have an interesting cast of characters which could have made for a nice drama with some steamier scenes, but like this, it feels undecided on what it wants to be. And then, when you realize that you have a horror/erotica movie that is actually mostly an erotica movie, you have to ask yourself is it worth it. Even if you're into this sort of stuff, you can find more interesting things with a single search on the Internet. I give it 6/10 for it's quality, but I don't really recommend it. Know what to expect if you decide to watch it.