"NAKED MASSACRE" (Chilling Classics 50 Movies Pack, #8)

NAKED MASSACRE

Original Title:
Die Hinrichtung

Alternate Title:
Born For Hell

Alternate German Titles:
Für die Hölle geboren / Born For Hell - Die Hinrichtung

West Germany / Canada / France / Italy, 1976
Director: Denis Héroux

4,5/10

"Naked Massacre" (shitty title, "Born For Hell" fits way better) is a very weird, very strange quasi-exploitation-sleazefest (that feels like a blend of "Last House On The Left", "Taxi Driver" and "Black Christmas"), taking place during violent riots in Belfast where an insane Vietnam vet tortures and terrorizes 8 nurses who live together in a boarding home.

The movie could have been highly interesting, not only because it's dealing with various unpleasant themes like Vietnam traumas, misogyny, lesbianism, rape, suicide etc, but also because it's strongly based on the real-life mass murder of Richard Speck.

 Unfortunately, the whole thing turned out to be way worse than it could have been, thanks to Denis Héroux' weak direction, the muddled script, the bad pacing, lots of boring and tiresome scenes, cheesy dialogue and lame editing.

There's some cool and gritty atmosphere in the first half, a few sweet eye-candys (Carole Laure, Christine Boisson, Leonora Fani), gorgeous nudity, gorgeous gore, the funny scene with the elderly whore and a quite shocking suicide scene - sadly, that all doesn't help the movie from being quite a disappointment :-/

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