量子资源网提供本资源 <> This film is an extremely entertaining sychological 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 layboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hister seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's inciient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his suosed 'sister' to hel drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and grou sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive deravity. I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and sychological susense thriller credentials in sades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of cra. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime ictures 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, esecially on video, as A QUIET PLACE TO KILL).
