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Great Film overall

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

First saw this film as an Elvira, Mistress of the Dark feature. Kinski is hilarious! He runs around having sex with everyone and yelling "Vhat are you dooing!" constantly. Kinski plays psychoanalyst Dr. Fales (no pun intended, I think but the shoe fits pretty well!), whose therapy group is being murdered by an unknown assassin one-by-one. Fales also has to cope with his rebellious daughter, Alison, who's hopping from bed to bed with numerous guys. Daddy can't understand why she's like this, even though he himself is shtupping practically every woman in sight. Basically, Fales becomes a caricature of Kinski himself. Chaotic plot (if you can call it that) and scene pacing. After watching it through, all I could say was "What are you doing?"

I don't know what is worse about this movie. 1) It is very predictable. 2) It is very stupid. Is it 1 or 2? I was bothered because I spent 89 minutes with this movie and I considered it was a waste of time. The premise of a murderer with scissors looked good but there is not a pinch of idea in it. Dr Fales (Kinski) is a psychiatrist who leads a group of therapy. His daughter Allison (Wilkes) is a rebel teenager who is against the doctor's new company Julie (Hill). Allison's mother died and Julie would take her place. So, she is sick 'n tired of the group and of Julie. What about her? She is a reporter who is in the way of getting the divorce from her husband Doug (Wasson). There is more: she helps people under the name of Dr. Love. She starts receiving threats by letter. The ladies from the group are being found stabbed one by one. "Don't let me kill again" blah, blah, blah. So, who are we dealing with? who is the killer? Could it be Dr. Fales who has sex with the ladies from the therapy group? Maybe his daughter? What about Julie's husband? I think that renting this movie would be a waste of movie. It is worse If you see it. A waste of time. At least performances were acceptable. 3 out of 10. Andrés.

I rented this one beacuse the cast looked interesting. I figured anything which features Klaus Kinski as a shrink must be worth a look. I was wrong. This film is hard to stay awake through. It has no suspense and the murders can be seen coming a mile away. What's worse, the film is tacky and cheap looking. Wonder what Christopher Lloyd thinks of it?

While watching this one, I kept thinking about that anecdote Claudia Cardinale recalls in Herzog's documentary about Kinski. They were doing a love-scene together (she claims he was nice, humble and respectful towards her) and all of the sudden, Herzog brought in an ocelot. Kinski freaked out, as good as slaughtered the poor animal (endangered species!!!), and refused to work again for the whole day. "He was such a nice man", she then goes on. And I'm sure his daughter has similar tales of warmth and paternal joy to tell. What's the point I'm getting to, It's clear what Kinski is doing in this film: his character is allowed to gratuitously bonk every single women in the film, even ogle his own naked daughter and beat up a few others. It must have been a relief for such an intense person to not have to act. And still he is able to sleepwalk through this lame excuse for a slasher movie.It isn't even funny (except for that bathtub-scene, where the director must have suddenly realized he was going to miss out on a screaming face unless he came up with something -you'll never believe that one-). I watched it in fast-forward, and those were a long fifteen minutes. Avoid if you can, sleep through it if you must.