Pluskylang Great Film overall

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

desert_dilbert So...do you want to see some nudity? Watch this movie. Also watch the deleted scenes in the extras. Spoiler Alert! 3 guesses as to what i'm gonna say and the first 2 don't count. There is no other reason to watch this movie. It's a vehicle to see desperate moms bare all. (All the nude women are obviously moms. Every one. A cavalcade.) Having said that, it's some good nudity, thus the rating. There is no thrill or suspense. I was never frightened or horrified. I could care less who the killer was. This movie could have been nothing but nudes doing nudish stuff and it would have given me exactly the same level of satisfaction. The beheading scene was almost laughable, except that a high school drama club could've done better special effects, so it was just cinematically sad. Sad emoji. But moments later there's more nudity, so things get better. I recall one of my favorite lines from "Erin Brockovich." "They're called boobs, Ed." I would've given the movie ten stars, but you never see a frontal of the African European woman.

morrison-dylan-fan Despite having heard of him for a number of years,I have somehow never got round to seeing a film by Fernando Di Leo.Taking a look at a DVD sellers page,I was pleased to spot an uncut edition of an early Slasher/Giallo hybrid that Di Leo had made,which led to me getting ready to check into the slaughter hotel.The plot:Credited with being the best doctor to treat mental illness, Dr. Francis Clay finds his mental hospital to get filled with women who are sent there by their husbands over stress-related issues.As Clay tries to treat the women in the best way possible,a masked stranger begins walking round the hospital killing patients & staff.View on the film:Whilst the rather graphic sex scenes with the gorgeous actresses create an alluring mood,co-writer/(along with Nino Latino) director Fernando Di Leo sadly destroys any offer of potential excitement by tugging every element of the movie to breaking point,with a terrible, feedback heavy psychedelic score from Silvano Spadaccino drying up any sense of mysterious tension,or steamy sexuality.Aiming for an episodic structure by focusing on a different patient every 10 minutes or so,the writers fail to give the characters the slightest distinctive feature,and also push the murder mystery plot right to the sidelines,which along with a very bored performance from Klaus Kinski,makes this hotel a terrible booking.

Michael_Elliott Slaughter Hotel (1971) * 1/2 (out of 4) This Italian giallo has the reputation of being one of the sleaziest out there but more on that in a bit. The film takes place at a mental asylum for rich women. Klaus Kinski plays a doctor trying to cure some of the women but soon a man dressed in a black coak shows up and starts killing the women one by one. After hearing so much about this film over the years I must say I can't remember the last time I was more disappointed in a movie. In fact, this might be the most disappointing Euro Horror I've ever seen, which is a shame because the film features a great cast. You got the wonderful Kinski on hand but he mostly sleepwalks through the film. You've got two beauties in Margaret Lee who was in Jess Franco's The Bloody Judge among others and you've got the incredibly sexy Rosalba Neri from Lady Frankenstein. The screenplay of this film never makes any sense and the movie also features some of the worst editing I've ever witnessed. Just check out the scene towards the start of the movie when we first see the killer and he's walking up the stairs. Another problem is that the film is rather dull and downright boring. There's never any energy behind the film, which sits even worse considering the first murder takes nearly half an hour. As for the reputation of the movie being sleazy, that's really not true. There are several murders but all of them are quite tame and there's quite a bit of nudity, including Neri playing a nymph, but nothing really stands out. There's a couple hardcore masturbation scenes but again, they aren't erotic and come off very lame.

saud29 Wow! You ever wonder why you are who you are, and how you got this way? I saw this movie in 1973 when I was 12 years old. Didn't know it at the time, but it was happily inappropriate for a group of impressionable pre-teens. My day camp counselor who was about 17 at the time took us to see this along with a karate flick ("The Hong Kong Cat"). It was classic - the counselor and his girlfriend drinking beer & sitting five rows behind nine raucous and rowdy 12 year olds. Then when the first solo shower scene of one of the inmates comes on, followed by a pretty sizzling interracial lesbian vignette, we were dead silent. "Slaughter Hotel" is a roller coaster ride of wood-inducing soft core action, followed by well, slaughter. There are spots where they try to make sense of the story, but its basically a maniac loose in a hospital where all of the female patients are lusty and attractive. I remember thinking how I could get a job at a place like that? Years later it reminded me of the Richard Speck episode from the sixties, where he killed 8 nurses in Chicago. I got this on VHS from Amazon a few years ago, and it maintains its ability to stimulate. Yeah we were all marked after that movie. We later graduated to hard core flicks on 42nd St in NYC, but I digress..Rent this if you can, and see if doesn't maintain your ah, interest. Klaus Kinski probably removed this from his resume, but I consider this one of the godfathers of there slasher genre.