Das Schloß der blauen Vögel (1971)

A masked killer stalks an institution for mentally disturbed rich women.

Director:

Fernando Di Leo

Writers:

Fernando Di Leo (screenplay), Fernando Di Leo (story)

Stars:

Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee, Rosalba Neri

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Klaus Kinski	...	Dr. Francis Clay
Margaret Lee	...	Cheryl Hume
Rosalba Neri	...	Anne Palmieri
Jane Garret	...	Mara
John Karlsen	...	Professor Osterman
Gioia Desideri	...	Ruth
John Ely	...	The Gardener
Fernando Cerulli	...	Augusto, the chauffeur
Sandro Rossi	...	Policeman
Giulio Baraghini	...	Policeman
Ettore Geri	...	Inspector
Antonio Radaelli	...	Policeman
Monica Strebel	...	Nurse Helen
Carla Mancini	...	Nurse
Franco Marletta	...	Male Nurse

Storyline

In a psychiatric clinic for rich women, dies murdered, one after another, a nurse and two patients, while an arrow hit another woman. The guilty is a masked man. The police decide to set up a trap, but the line of murdering isn't still over.

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Plot Keywords:

masked killer | nurse | clinic | arrow | killer | 

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Taglines:

The Slasher Massacre of Eight Innocent Nurses!

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Genres:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

BPjM Restricted

Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

January 1973 (USA)

Also Known As:

Asylum Erotica

Filming Locations:

Elios Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cineproduzioni Daunia 70, Sitoro

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Sound System)

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Italian censorship visa # 58094 delivered on 7-5-1971.

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Connections

Referenced in Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 (2008)

User Reviews

A strange blend of erotica and slasher gore

Wow! You ever wonder why you are who you are, and how you got this way? I saw this movie in 1973 when I was 12 years old. Didn't know it at the time, but it was happily inappropriate for a group of impressionable pre-teens. My day camp counselor who was about 17 at the time took us to see this along with a karate flick ("The Hong Kong Cat"). It was classic - the counselor and his girlfriend drinking beer & sitting five rows behind nine raucous and rowdy 12 year olds. Then when the first solo shower scene of one of the inmates comes on, followed by a pretty sizzling interracial lesbian vignette, we were dead silent. "Slaughter Hotel" is a roller coaster ride of wood-inducing soft core action, followed by well, slaughter. There are spots where they try to make sense of the story, but its basically a maniac loose in a hospital where all of the female patients are lusty and attractive. I remember thinking how I could get a job at a place like that? Years later it reminded me of the Richard Speck episode from the sixties, where he killed 8 nurses in Chicago. I got this on VHS from Amazon a few years ago, and it maintains its ability to stimulate. Yeah we were all marked after that movie. We later graduated to hard core flicks on 42nd St in NYC, but I digress..Rent this if you can, and see if doesn't maintain your ah, interest. Klaus Kinski probably removed this from his resume, but I consider this one of the godfathers of there slasher genre.