简介: 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).
4.0 小林桂树/藤冈弘/石田良子/泷田裕介/二谷英明/村井国夫/夏八木勋/丹波哲郎/罗恩·格林/岛田正吾/约翰·藤冈/中村伸郎/中岛春雄/乔·丹特/苏珊·桑内特/Clifford A. Pellow/菲利普·罗斯/中村哲/麦·安迪/Marvin Miller/中丸忠雄/拉尔夫·詹姆斯/柄本明/早川雄三/石坂浩二/神谷诚/加藤和夫/熊谷卓三/国村隼/草彅刚/神山繁/森干太/名古屋章/尾上克郎/铃木瑞穗/高桥昌也/吉田日出子/