Slaughter Hotel

La bestia uccide a sangue freddo

Italy

1971

85 Min

Color

2.35:1

Currently 2.4/5 Stars.
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PROD Tiziano Longo, Armando Novelli

SCR Fernando Di Leo, Nino Latino

CAST Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee, Rosalba Neri, Jane Garret, John Karlsen, John Ely

Dr. Francis Clay (Klaus Kinski) is the head doctor at an asylum that houses suicidal and mentally disturbed women. Hired by a wealthy socialite who’s also a patient, Dr. Clay tries desperately to cure his female charges. But when a cloaked killer begins brutally murdering the asylum’s patients, the “good” doctor finds himself numbered among the suspects. Liberal doses of nudity, gore and Kinski’s terminal weirdness inform this Italian movie.

Director

Fernando Di Leo

Fernando Di Leo (January 11, 1932 – December 1, 2003) was an Italian film director and script writer born in San Ferdinando di Puglia. During his career from 1964 to 1985, Di Leo directed 20 films and was involved in the writing process in 43. His films influenced many popular contemporary directors, such as Quentin Tarantino and John Woo.

Di Leo started his career mostly writing scripts for spaghetti westerns. He worked on the script for Per un pugno di dollari (A Fistful of Dollars, 1964) and later as assistant director and assistant to Sergio Leone in Per qualche dollaro in più (For a Few Dollars More, 1965). Later, he wrote scripts for such westerns as Navajo Joe (1966) and Johnny Yuma (1967). Di Leo is now best remembered for his poliziotteschi films, especially the Milieu Trilogy, which he both wrote and directed. The trilogy contains Milano calibro 9 (1972), La mala ordina (Manhunt, 1972) and Il boss (The Boss, 1973). —Wikipedia