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Glacially paced hunk of Italian cheese, Slaughter Hotel (or pick any in the endless string of alternate titles) is an unintentionally hysterical experience thanks to flatly dubbed, ridiculous dialogue, a trashy score, stiff-as-a-board acting, and a clumsy mix of soft-core (although occasionally explicit) erotica and bloody violence. Docked 1/2 a star for somehow rendering Klaus Kinski an unanimated cipher.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/01/23
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While I was hoping for Klaus Kinski to have more to do, this was still a good bit of fun, with some interesting kills and set in a moody old building.
Well worth a rental.
Rated 3.5/5 Stars •
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/07/23
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An erotic giallo film with Klaus Kinski? What's not to like? Also the English title Slaughter Hotel is ridiculous as there is no hotel in the movie just an insane asylum!
Rated 3/5 Stars •
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/09/23
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Slaughter Hotel has gone by many names over the years; the original Italian title La bestia uccide a sangue freddo, the original U.S. title Asylum Erotica, and the world-wide release title Cold Blooded Beast. But no matter what you call it, you'd certainly call it Euro trash, not that that's a bad thing. It's a movie that Quentin Tarantino has been holding up for years despite being cut up and distributed in different lengths with different amounts of content. So is all of this fuss really worth it? Well, yes and no. I suppose your appreciation of this movie will depend greatly upon your personal tastes. It's not a particularly good movie, but it is sort of fascinating to watch. It's absolutely shameless when it comes to the amount of nudity it contains, with the violence kept at an absolute minimum until the movie's final moments. It's also a movie that contains a lot of different shots, which means that the editing never has an ironed out pace of any kind. Things just happen, sometimes very quickly and sometimes very slowly. It's meant to be a movie about a deranged killer bumping off patients at an insane asylum for women one by one, but it can never manage to keep that at the forefront at all times. It's basically about getting a bunch of women naked and having them be mostly out of their minds with sexual desire, more or less. That's not to say that Slaughter Hotel has no merit at all. It has a wonderful use of color, with some very distinctive hues that are used for effect. Even the shadows seem to have a lot of detail to them. The problem is that the frame oftentimes will rotate in different directions when you're trying to focus on something, or it will switch to a slightly different angle and then back again. The point is to see through the mind of the killer as he sees things, but it doesn't very effective. It just becomes a matter of wanting both the cameraman and the editor to linger on a shot a little longer. When I first saw the movie it was in its heavily-edited U.S. form as Asylum Erotica. I received a copy of it when I was a lot younger and it came on a bootleg VHS titled LP video, which also came with two other movies: The Alien Dead and The Man Who Knew Too Much. Don't ask me who gave it to me or where they go it because I have no idea. I've researched it and came up with nothing. But even then, in that terrible full screen, heavily-edited version, I still found it kind of fascinating, even though it wasn't very good.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
01/26/23
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Sleazy, very sleazy. And that's a good thing.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/19/23
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Boring. I was fooled my the title and cover. I like italian sleaze as much as the next guy, but this didn't to it for me. Not a fan.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/23/23
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