Giallo! Euro-Trash! Yep, gotta love those Italian slasher-fests with sultry babes, in states of undress, fresh from fits of passion, and in mortal peril. What could be better? How about if the slasher is a hideous freak of an old hag who resents beauty and relishes in mutilating Euro-babes just fresh from carnal passion! Kind of a metaphor for woke America and its view of beauty. Fortunately, here, wokeness is dying. Our feature today is 1966's "The Murder Clinic," directed by Elio Scardamaglia and Lionello De Felice.
Sultry nurses, in states of undress, and fresh from carnal passion, are slashed by a hooded figure wielding a razor. I should point out the setting...an asylum for the criminally insane. The asylum is run by the handsome Dr. Robert Vance (William Berger). He lives there with his sultry wife, Lizabeth (Mary Young). A new nurse, to replace a slashed up one, arrives, the sultry blonde Mary (Barbara Wilson). She's gentle and caring. Uh oh...someone is living in a locked room in the attic. She paces at night driving the schizophrenic patients into a frenzy. Lizabeth is suspicious as Mary is quite beautiful and it looks like Robert and her are on the outs as far as their marriage goes. Uh oh...homicidal liar Gisele (Francoise Prevost) murders her carriage driver and is found wandering in the woods by Robert. He brings her back to the asylum as a guest. Lizabeth is not happy about having another floozy distracting Robert.
Okay, Gisele, smelling an opportunity for blackmail, sneaks into that forbidden room in the attic and finds a hideously marred woman (Delfi Mauro). Laura is this woman and she is Lizabeth's sister...who fell into a lime pit long ago. Now Laura resents beauty. Gisele faints and is revived by Robert and she lets him know that his secret is safe with her for the sum of 50,000 pounds. Uh oh...Robert seems to be taking a liking to Nurse Mary. Uh oh, the hooded figure in the cloak is on the prowl with his or her razor. Uh oh, the beautiful keep being ripped apart. Uh oh...Giselle wants Robert and knows Mary may emerge as a rival. Uh oh, a few criminally insane insaniacs escape from their cells.
Will Mary remain in one piece by the time the end credits roll? Just what is Laura's backstory and is she as homicidal as she is hideous? Will any nubile nurse survive the razor? This is a good one with a shocking ending. For some fine European cheesecake, and nubile babes in great peril, see "The Murder Clinic."
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