Joe Brezy (Joe Dallesandro making his last movie in Italy) is the kind of person that'll escape prison, kill a man with a rock and stab an old man with a pitchfork before most of us have our second cup of coffee. Then, he asks an old man for everything that he knows about the cabin where Liliana (Patricia Behn), her sister Paola (Lorraine De Selle, House On the End of the Park) and her husband Sergio (Gianni Macchia) are having a very tense vacation.
The next day, when Sergio goes hunting and Liliana goes shopping, Joe makes his way inside and forces her to help him dig out the fireplace. As each person returns to the house, he makes them dig as well, as he's hid money there before he got sent to jail. Oh yeah, he also reveals that Paola and Sergio are having an affair and forces them to make sweet - well, not so sweet - love in front of her.
The captives come up with a plan to escape, but Joe ends up shooting everyone but Liliana, who he wants to take away from all this madness. Instead, she shoots him and that's our movie.
This was written by Mario Gariazzo (Play Motel, Enter the Devil, Eyes Behind the Stars) and he intended to direct it, but Fernando Di Leo - whose company Cineproduzioni Daunia 70 produced many of Gariazzo's movies - ended up making it instead. He wasn't happy with the finished movie, saying that in Roberto Curti's Italian Crime Filmography that it was a "disappointing film indeed, including my toying with Lorraine De Selle's nude scenes. It's mediocre, but not because I did wrong - I just wasn't interested in it." He added, "...you don't always have the chance to do what you want, and often you know very well you're making a bad movie, but you do it anyways."
As for the soundtrack, Luis Bacalov brought music he had already used for Caliber 9 and The Designated Victim.
For being someone not known for his acting, Dallesandro is pretty good in this. That's because he's just seducing women and being a wildman. He's used the right way and man, De Selle is the reason this all works. It's a one room meltdown, primal violence and wanton lust.
The next day, when Sergio goes hunting and Liliana goes shopping, Joe makes his way inside and forces her to help him dig out the fireplace. As each person returns to the house, he makes them dig as well, as he's hid money there before he got sent to jail. Oh yeah, he also reveals that Paola and Sergio are having an affair and forces them to make sweet - well, not so sweet - love in front of her.
The captives come up with a plan to escape, but Joe ends up shooting everyone but Liliana, who he wants to take away from all this madness. Instead, she shoots him and that's our movie.
This was written by Mario Gariazzo (Play Motel, Enter the Devil, Eyes Behind the Stars) and he intended to direct it, but Fernando Di Leo - whose company Cineproduzioni Daunia 70 produced many of Gariazzo's movies - ended up making it instead. He wasn't happy with the finished movie, saying that in Roberto Curti's Italian Crime Filmography that it was a "disappointing film indeed, including my toying with Lorraine De Selle's nude scenes. It's mediocre, but not because I did wrong - I just wasn't interested in it." He added, "...you don't always have the chance to do what you want, and often you know very well you're making a bad movie, but you do it anyways."
As for the soundtrack, Luis Bacalov brought music he had already used for Caliber 9 and The Designated Victim.
For being someone not known for his acting, Dallesandro is pretty good in this. That's because he's just seducing women and being a wildman. He's used the right way and man, De Selle is the reason this all works. It's a one room meltdown, primal violence and wanton lust.