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).
根据这里的一切来看……应该是tmd恐怖片吧。
[1]盲目刻板而又压抑的灵魂是否也曾会感到羞愧？[2]那台黑白电视机太懂什么是讽刺了。
老头最终还是心脏病发了，女主居然就这么跑了。。。
porn+cult？a24真是特立独行。欲求不满的老太太真可怕。——方舱观影1
而米婭同時飾演女主Maxine和老太太Pearl，將身體焦慮和老年焦慮轉化成了主題式的隱喻。
前半部分的铺垫很妙，无论是“pop your eyes out”还是鳄鱼的前后呼应，还是诡异却不知所以然的老年夫妻的跟踪和肉体、精神的破败，都让人头皮发麻，Lorraine摘下十字架项链是为“堕落”，反而开始大开杀戒后就变成了普通的血浆片了，主角团也不咋聪明，女主逃离也是靠运气，最后应该是隐喻Maxine和Pearl终究会不一样吧，Maxine逃离了邪教般的天主教家庭，Pearl一辈子被困在无性的婚姻里。
推荐给A24的忠粉和B级片爱好者观看。
真正的老人，颤颤巍巍的杀人狂，居然还是为了性，其他就没什么恐怖的了
我爱70年代画风的一切 老年人的性生活可以拿出来讨论一下
气质和风格都非常出色，但故事略显薄弱，前后割裂，结尾甚至有些搞笑，食之无味弃之可惜。
复古做得不错，一对老年夫妇做杀人狂也是蛮有新意的，湖里游泳排得很好看，但是也就仅此而已。
点子虽好但成色欠佳，节奏太慢看得人兴致缺缺，导演表达和虐杀情节一度无法兼容。以及《闪灵》的N+1次用法。如果偏老年人看了绝对火冒三丈，本来老年性生活的话题已经被忽视了太久，你可倒好，直接放到恐怖片里。
质感和主题都好，看的太舒服了，B级片往往都是血腥和色情，但为什么一定要密不可分，这个做的真好，
有些情节矫情的厉害，突出一种做作的无病呻吟感。
影迷与影视工作从业者的娱乐片？多处匹配剪辑 镜面分屏 跳切拉紧不同空间与人物 框架构图 运镜 用得不错 小而精 结尾笑出声 中间有段乏力了 三星半
没抱什么期待，只是个对剥削电影的剥削。当创造者思考的不是内容上的新异，拍出来的电影又怎么能够格。想到这真是对这种电影厌透了，结构狂文本狂自己开个新流派玩去吧，少用食之无味弃之可惜的老元素勾引人
A24出品发展至今不论质量好坏都标签化过于严重，比许多好莱坞大厂还要更套路，也簇生了一群缺乏灵魂的投机创作者。
其中的一段镜头我愿称之为最强NTR，看着女票与专业男演员做爱做的运动，并全程拍摄下来，这就叫专业。
值得一看的非主流小成本恐怖片，杂糅了B级血浆片和半致敬半嘲讽老一代恐怖片套路的风格，沙雕嬉皮士只要能作大死一定不会错过作大死，还塞进两部爱情动作片戏中戏，算是颇有看头，就是各种jump scare拖得太慢拖到完全可以预测会发生什么，以及油尽灯枯的老嘢do艾实在让人毛骨悚然，能忍受这两点的话看看还是不错的。
衰老真的是一件恐怖的事情，不能承受自己的衰老更是。
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