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Alice (Florinda Bolkan), a translator living in Italy, discovers that she has a memory loss and can't recall the last couple of days. She starts to follow a trace of memory fragments, which leads her to the small town of Garma. People in the town seem to recognize her and she's beginning to suspect that the re-occurring nightmares of astronauts conducting horrible experiments has something to do with her own amnesia.

The movie is interesting and the plot is good, but it's a bit to slow moving and arty for my taste. The plot takes some nice twists and it's really hard to figure out where it's heading. Florinda Bolkan is good in her role (but even better in "Flavia the Heretic") and it's always nice to see "star" child actor Nocoletta Elmi. Klaus Kinski's role is too small though. This is not a movie for the die-hard gore hound or exploitation addict, but still a very nice hour-and-a-half mystery.

Leo and Roger, a couple of small-time criminals, plan a bank robbery. Roger, the more submissive of the two falls in love with Eva who works at the bank they're about to rob. They decide to take her in on the robbery along with a bunch of other people. Things doesn't go as well as they planned and the pile of dead bodies grows as they approach the day of the hit...

This is a gory, twisted b movie with bad script, sound, lightning and editing. But still (or because of that) it's a blast! What makes this flick so damn interesting? Well, I can give you some examples:

• Eva, the cancer sick, bald bank cashier, is played by Eva Röse! She was titled `Sexiest woman in Sweden' a couple of years ago and she's an extremely well known and respected actress with the Royal Theatre in Stockholm. The salary for a theatrical actress in Sweden is so low that she has to take all roles she gets in order to survive! It's the only explanation I can think of...

• Göran Gillinger (Leo) is a real idol among Swedish teenage girls (we're talking n'sync) and he usually plays sweet and nice characters that you fall in love with. In this one he's a cold-hearted killer!

• Anki, the extremely annoying white-trash girlfriend of Jose is played by Linda Ulveus, the daughter of Björn Ulveus and Agnetha Fältskog from ABBA!

• The crazy killer Jose (who wants to snuff everyone) is played by a respected Raï musician.

• One of the shoplifters at Skärholmens Loppmarknad is played by Mackan from the popular Swedish hip-hop group "Fattaru".

• There are some scenes that are meant to be humorous and some that are extremely serious. I can't always tell which...

• The FX is really good! All murders are really messy and well made.

• The disposal of the bodies using a meat grinder is pretty much stolen directly from "Fargo".

• I'm pretty sure everyone involved in this movie are trying to cover it up. It's hard to get hold of a copy so the distribution must have been stopped!

This movie can be compared to "Hjärta av Sten" or "Farligt förflutet", a couple of Swedish b action flicks released two years ago. But this one is far more interesting than both of them! If there had been some (female) nudity and sex in it, it would have been the best Swedish exploitation feature ever made! My recommendation: GET A COPY OF THIS ONE! It will be a cult move, I promise, and your copy will be worth its weight in gold in the future!

Elsa Ackerman is ordered by the SS to arrange a bordello on a train at the frontlines to keep up the morale among the German officers. The real reason is (of course) to spy on them to find traitors. It is an effective method and a lot of traitors are executed. When Franz, Elsa's boyfriend, is stationed on the train as an interpreter, things starts to go wrong. He falls in love with Liselotte, a spy for `La Resistance' and she convinces him to join them.

This Salon Kitty spin-off is pretty forgettable. The story is bleak and the ending is so sudden that I almost missed it. Elsa is good-looking and nicely evil, but her good properties is wasted in this far to mild flick. There are some memorable scenes though, for example when Elsa and Franz have s&m sex (boot licking) and when Elsa seduces a 20 year old virgin and then executes him. Notable is also that there's NO shower scene! Malisa Longo (Elsa) is also in Salon Kitty and Ilsa she-wolf of the SS. If you feel the need to see a nazisploitation flick (like I usually do) I'd recommend Red nights of the Gestapo, Gestapo's last orgy or Salon Kitty instead. Remember that even a bad nzispolitation is better than most movies!