An absolute piece of junk. Someone is using a sickle to murder nurses at a posh mental hospital for what seem to be only swinging women. It takes so long for anything to happen, the viewer is left to marvel at the patients (all of whom look like bug-eyed drag queens) in various states of undress. The bad dubbing only serves to highlight their otherworldliness. Director Fernando Di Leo pulls out a lot of camera pyrotechnics (fish eyed lenses, zooms, hand-held) but it's for naught. The movie is so awkwardly paced, it's ridiculous. The constant strings of the music by Silvano Spaddaccino don't help matters. It sounds like the film was made on a carnival midway. While Di Leo has the good sense to cast Klaus Kinski (also dubbed) as a chain-smoking "world famous" psychiatrist, he gives him nothing at all to do. An unfortunate case of real Euro-trash! Di Leo, a master at making crime thrillers, has rightly deemed this his worst film.
Review of Asylum Erotica
