This film is an extremely entertaining psychological thriller with Carrol Baker excellent as a rich American widow getting away from it all at a secluded Italian villa. Enter smart aleck down on his luck playboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hipster seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's incipient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his supposed 'sister' to help drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and group sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive depravity. I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and psychological suspense thriller credentials in spades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of crap. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime pictures in the sixties and seventies and this is one of them (other good films by Lenzi -- SPASMO, SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, to name only a few). Unfortunately this film is ofen confused with another okay but not-quite-as-good Lenzi film that was also released briefly here in America under the same PARANOIA title (but is more commonly known, especially on video, as A QUIET PLACE TO KILL).
演员:詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊 杰西卡·查斯坦 比尔·斯卡斯加德 比尔·哈德尔 索菲娅·莉莉丝 杰克·迪伦·格雷泽 菲恩·伍法德 杰登·马泰尔 特洛伊·詹姆斯 哈维尔·博泰特 杰·瑞恩 斯蒂芬·金 杰克逊·罗伯特·斯科特 杰里米·雷·泰勒 泽维尔·多兰 杰克·威利 尼古拉斯·汉密尔顿 杰丝·威克斯勒 詹姆斯·兰索恩 瓦耶特·奥莱夫 欧文·泰格 艾赛亚·穆斯塔法 安迪·比恩 蒂奇·格兰特 泰勒·弗雷 贾森·福克斯 乔森·雅各布 斯蒂夫·博加尔特 洛根·汤普森 杰克·辛 维尔·贝布林克 安东尼·尤埃西
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