 Thanks for checking out this movie review video So this is for the 1971 Italian giallo film slaughter hotel, and it's not a great title But this movie sucks It was such a great title, but the movie sucks But I guess I should have kind of expected it based off of one of its alternate titles, which is Asylum erotica that kind of gives you more of an idea of what this film is I feel like slaughter hotel really sells it more as like a straight horror. It's gonna be a good fun kill-filled giallo film which there are some kind of fun kills in this but Asylum erotica gets more to what it's really is about which is all about the nudity all about the Female on female action and all about the masturbation female masturbation that they show straight on It's porn, I mean it's basically porn now There's a time in my life where I would have been like oh man This is awesome, but at this time in my life. It's more like oh man I just really wasted like an hour and a half of my time I think it was actually an hour and 36 minutes something like that, but This film is way too long and does not have nearly enough story for how long it is Geez anyway, this one is done by directed by Fernando de leo, which is the very first time I've seen a Fernando de leo film might be the last we'll see He did some other films such as a wrong way to love naked violence Which those two titles give you an idea of what he's all about the Italian connection Madness and the violent breed Also written by de leo as well as Nino. Nino Latino I'm gonna guess that's a pseudonym because I don't think anyone actually is named Nino Latino very Named he wrote scripts for a wrong way to love and naked violence So once again, you see what types of films they're into obviously worked with de leo before porn buddies kind of yeah So this stars the notoriously difficult Klaus kinsky very distinct look to this actor. I actually actually haven't seen him in a lot. I just know that he's kind of Excuse me Notoriously tough to deal with I thought he did a good job acting wise I know he's always been considered to be a very good actor He's got a very interesting look that I think helps with this with his you know overall air of acting in any role Especially a role where you're kind of supposed to suspect him as a potential killer I do think they you know cast that character. Well dr. Clay Dr. Clay because You know you look at him and he looks evil. He looks like he's probably up to no good He looks like he could very well end up being the murder and at one point in the film They even do a shot kind of from behind during the I'll talk about it later more but the crossbow From outside Shot they shoot him from behind and you see the hair like the long kind of blondish hair that was set up to kind of Put your attention on to dr. Clay at that point Because obviously at that point Cheryl's husband who's the real killer wasn't really around He was just showed showing up early in the very beginning so that they could basically be like see you saw the killer before and Then forget about him because he hasn't been there in quite some time Although this whole film. I think I might just forget about This film not only is also known as asylum erotica, but it's also known as cold-blooded beast Also very misleading asylum erotica It should just be called asylum erotica because literally that is a much better representation of what the film is about So a dude slowly lurking in the dark is a solid way to hook an audience early in this film I did like that I gave me hope for the film initially I was like here we go This looks fun because it's a cool premise too like the fact that it's a rest facility, which is basically a Mental Institute for people who don't want to feel like they need mental health help That's the doubt those were actually things that they kind of frame those things as kind of like a It's like a weekend maybe week maybe month maybe multiple months maybe years get away So that you can you know just have a break get less stressed and then when you come back You'll be the same person. You won't have your nymphomania. You won't have your homicidal tendencies You know normal stuff So yeah, that's kind of how that goes but a great setting. I love the setting of it I love the potential of what they set up with this film Especially how it starts with this guy just like lurking into this what looks like a castle like the facility looks like a castle And that's the thing like a lot of things about it look really good Directed pretty well cinematography is pretty good I especially like their they did a lot of like long shots that I really enjoy that kind of like really opens up the set Really lets gives room to the characters to kind of like move around and experience it But it also gives the audience more time to really look at all the intricacies of the set design and just kind of feel a little bit More like you're in the film in the moment But don't really think you need it for this film, but it looked good to start It really got me hopeful and then it's When you see the Iron Maiden in the beginning you think please please please let this be used for one of the kills And it was used for one of the kills So I was happy about that But then you actually get to the kill portion with the Iron Maiden and it wasn't that well done I feel like they needed to add more gore to it more blood more of the guy who got killed really Reacting to it more or being more, you know panicked about this is gonna happen Better when it eventually is opened up and you see kind of like the wounds in his back and all the blood there But still not the greatest. I'll talk about that guy a little bit later cuz odd The rapid cuts between the front and back of the shadow we figure going up the stairs in the beginning Horrible don't know who thought that was a good idea But yeah, like he's literally like shadow we figure walking up the stairs Going to look to kill somebody and they're literally doing the shot where it's like front back front back front back and it's like Why is it supposed to be kind of like this visual thing to like put you on edge? I don't know, but it looks terrible. It takes you out of the film because it makes you like What are they doing right now? What is the purpose of this? It looks awful. So yeah, it's just one of those moments They make a real point of showing nurse Helen's eyes They're beautiful creepy and haunting all at the same time and it made me think that she could have ended up being the killer very early on because The focus so much on like the color of her eyes and how they look But then again, maybe that was there as a way to give you that feeling of her being kind of creepy Her looking kind of haunting but beautiful at the same time as a way to kind of be another red herring to be like look She kind of looks like she could be a killer Focus here. Don't look at Cheryl's husband barely pay attention to him because he's barely in it Ruth having homicidal tendencies is obviously a large red herring that's thrown into this film yet another one Where they make sure that they talk about it Not only they make sure to talk about it, but they show it numerous times where she's thinking about killing or the time when she Almost you know runs the car that her husband's driving off the road on their way there And then she has a knife at another point and it's just like okay But then this brings up another thing which I was gonna talk about later about let's talk about it now Well, I'm talking about Ruth and her homicidal tendencies. Why? Why why if you treat people with homicidal tendencies at your arrest facility? Why would you have all these very sharp? Very able to be used for murder weapons just hanging out in the facility With someone like Ruth who you know is has homicidal tendencies. Why would you make? available to her a myriad things With which to kill people Doesn't make any sense, but that's Geolo for you. Well, I mean I don't even know if I would really consider it I mean, this is technically Geolo, but for me, I'm kind of not really considering it. Geolo This is like one of this. I this is in my bottom like this is this is the bottom prior to this it was the pajama girl case Because that is awful, but this is even worse in my opinion, which is really bad You know if you say something's worse than the pajama girl case that's bad. That's bad Ann is a sex maniac. Isn't that who they usually say is the killer in Geolo films? I thought that was kind of funny that dawned on me because all the time when the murders start happening They're like it's a sex maniac. It's a sex maniac They don't say that in this film especially because the inspectors aren't that involved at all until the very end when they just start pointing fingers and accusing everyone of covering things up, which is weird, but It was just it seemed like maybe kind of a funny nod to that's what they do in Geolo of just being like Oh, it's a sex maniac as a way to plant yet another red herring to be like she's a sex maniac And they usually say sex maniacs are the killers. So maybe she's the killer. So I thought that was funny But we all know the sex maniac aspect of it for Ann as well as Mara. It seemed as well as Helen Seems to be as well as Cheryl actually everyone's a sex maniac. That's all in there just to get more of the erotica going What an excessive shower scene with Ann this film is riddled with excessive scenes usually having to do with nudity The shower scene the bath scene the massage scene the dance scene Those are the big nudity laden sex Sexuality inducing scenes that are way way way way too long and it kills the film Like the pacing is garbage with this film and that's one of the biggest reasons is they focus so much on the actual sex When they could have focused they could have had as much nudity in this film really They could have but had a good film because they focus more on the story and more on the killings and stuff like that Just saying messed up priorities So are we going to get any story or will it just be pointless nude scenes? Just answer my own question. Yes pointless nude scenes pretty much The old boning the gardener bit that is an old bit But it turned pretty sour after the sex because of all the slapping That was one of those things and this happens in giallo all the time. We're like it turns on a dime It's just like everything's going great. We just had sex. We're really digging each other the pheromones You know the adrenaline's pumping the pheromones are going and then the gardener is just like hey You get out of here. Oh wait, you're not listening whack whack whack whack whack. I mean It happens in giallo all the time. They do it all the time so much so that in the giallo homage slash parody film the editor Which is a lot of fun if you're big into the giallo they make fun of that aspect Like there's literally a line in it where they're like could you imagine that a man slapping another man? But there's a lot of slapping in it too because they're making fun of that aspect because it's always slapping Women are always getting slapped in giallo films crazy Not only is the scene of Anne kissing all over the orderlies weird, but it goes on way way way way too long That's another one like that was after she and just got slapped and she left the gardener She's just like throwing herself all over these orderlies and trying to kiss them and stuff like fine You can have that scene I get it But just a few seconds man like it felt like it went on for like a solid minute And there's nothing there like there's no story being moved forward There's nothing going on for her character that makes any sense or matters. It's just like oh god Ruth's dream sequences overkill gene dream sequences in general and the frequency of dream sequences in this film Especially because they mean nothing story-wise They're excessive. There's too much way too much with the dream sequences way too long Another issue terrible That strangling scene terrible and everything leading up to it takes way too long That's another one that was with the killer Going to her going to Ruth and giving her the knife Which I understand why he gave her the knife and then he takes it away from her because she was going to stab him Like that made no sense and the fact that he just like hangs out and breathes in a weird way and Then starts strangling her in the most odd strangling way I've ever seen in my life like very inefficient killer I don't understand that at all, but terrible scene Who is this dude going around at night finishing everyone's drinks? Unbelievably random. Yes, the guy who ends up getting killed with the Iron Maiden which side note? He actually has a name in the IMDb credits. He was Augusto It didn't matter. He literally that was the only point that he was in the film Nobody knows who he is he just randomly shows up starts going through this place at night and just drinking all the leftover alcoholic beverages that are around and then he gets killed It's crazy that he doesn't have a name yet Cheryl's husband has no name in the IMDb credits except Cheryl's husband Go figure. It So much just doesn't make sense But I did find it funny like it was some nice comic relief that there's this random dude shows up And he's just like downing the rest of people's drinks something oh I already covered the With people with homicidal tendencies around why would you have all these sharp weapons? Yeah How freaking long do we have to watch this bathing scene with Mara and Helen? Yeah, it's pretty bad. I mean at least like I Understand some of the scenes because like oh, you know, it's very the very first nude scene with Anne in the in the shower like okay I understand it's surely for sex appeal, which I know that's what the bathing scene was for also But like it's not Sexually interesting. I mean maybe to someone but I'm saying like when you compare it to like the shower scene You compare it to the massage scene. It's not interesting And then after that the dancing scene that comes right after the bathing scene even less interesting Well, I actually know it's a little bit more interesting than the bathing scene, but still like why are we doing this? It's just another one of those scenes. It's thrown in there that you're literally like We could be doing anything else in this film right now, and it would be much better Let's go back to the dude who's just finishing drinks like if this film had a whole half an hour of this dude going through the entire Facility just finishing all the booze that would be more entertaining. I think By the time we get to Anne's dream sequence, I've really had it with these they're pointless and too drawn out I kind of already talked about that and and gets killed and then we go back to Mara and her bath Come on now then the excessive dance scene Yeah, I was literally one of those things and then I'll stop talking about the bath and dance scenes But it literally like the bass scene went on too long and I was just like oh my god Finally we're done with that because you go to the dream sequence and then you go back to the bass scene It's like you didn't we didn't get enough of this well, I Did like the crossbow bolt to Mara's neck though that was awesome That's what I referenced before where they're kind of from behind trying to make it look like dr. Clay But I mean that guy's accuracy is amazing because he like shoots. I think it was like second story He's pretty far back to gets the crossbow bolt right through her neck as she's For no reason randomly just standing there with the window open at night Of course, but it looked good like with the arrow sticking through and everything. I like that the bolt. It was pretty good. I Like how dr. Osterman doesn't seem at all concerned that Mara was killed at that point Yeah, he seems way too calm like maybe this happens a lot at this place. I don't know but It is very Ridiculous, I guess showing the killer just swinging the sword around in the basement is supposed to show his level of craziness I don't know. Was that what it was supposed to be? I don't know it's um There's a lot of for no reasons like literally they're showing the killer in the basement just swinging a sword around just So Cheryl's husband killed a bunch of women to cover up that he was going to kill his wife Couldn't he just offer in some remote place instead of where it's crawling with freaking people Who could catch him who could see him who could investigate things? It doesn't make sense at all like the rationale behind it Obviously, he's a crazy person because he wants to kill people But the rationale behind the script writing for this is awful like he's literally like man I really need to get rid of my wife. What's the best way to do it? Well? I think I need lots of people around So that they can be witnesses No like I get the point of He was trying to cover it up like he was killing the other women so that it would look like there's some sort of killer on the loose and Then oh, obviously Cheryl also gets killed because there's this killer on the loose But you there's so much more risk as opposed to just hey Why don't you guys like go take a drive to one of the beautiful cliffs that they have in Italy and just push her off the thing Say that she slipped Much better. You would have less chance of getting caught Come on, man Why did he keep killing instead of escaping? That's another thing that makes absolutely no sense He knew that they were on to him They knew that they saw his face They he knew that they knew who he was and they were after him in the building But instead of trying to escape trying to get away with this which I assume he initially thought This is my entire plan so that I can get away with it Not so that I can be caught and people would think oh that was cool but You would think he's trying to get away, but he's being chased and he's just like nah I think I'm just gonna kill some more and then I'll die. I mean That is a decent scene though when he goes in he's like swinging that flail around Or that mace on the chain around and just like killing all the women and then he gets all shot up like good scene So I understand why they put it in the film for that reason But that guy would try to get away and it's ridiculous Already talked about the thing I did like with the long shots So, you know cinematography directing wise pretty solid Heavy on nudity and light on story and the setting has a lot of potential So it really sucks that they squandered this one I think someone should remake this someone do a remake of slaughter hotel because we don't need remakes of good films We need remakes of terrible films like this that have a great premise set up a great location set up and they just all over it So someone Write the slaughter hotel remake. I watch it. It's got it. I mean by default. It's gonna be better It's gonna be better like you have to try to write a script this bad I'm just saying and the pacing is just the worst with this film Like I was like getting very bored during this film numerous times. So, yeah, so, um, ooh Well I was trying to think is this one that I can rate two ways Can I rate it just as a straight-up film and as a so bad it's good And I think I will do that because there is a little more value to it as a so bad It's good So as an actual film with you know out of five stars with half stars in play I'm gonna go a one star now I was considering half star but because of the good directing and cinematography and I didn't class kinsky a lot of the actors Did a did a solid job, you know, and there were some decent ish kills in there I'm gonna give it one star still not great, but as a so bad. It's good film Two stars Yeah, so but I'd love to hear other people's opinions on this Especially if you like this film especially if you love this film Tell it tell me why and not just because of nudity. Give me give me some other reasons So go ahead put your comments down there We can talk about this or just other giallo if you're just over Slaughter hotel like I am Also, do me a quick favor hit subscribe takes you a second Cost you nothing totally painless and it really helps me out. I just suffered through slaughter hotel Just give me the subscribe for that. 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