Naked Massacre (1976)
"Die Hinrichtung" (original title)

A Vietnam vet terrorizes a house full of nurses.

Director:

Denis Héroux

Writers:

Fred Denger, Denis Héroux,

Stars:

Mathieu Carrière, Debra Berger, Christine Boisson

Cast

Cast overview:
Mathieu Carrière	...	Cain Adamson
Debra Berger	...	Bridget (as Debby Berger)
Christine Boisson	...	Christine
Myriam Boyer	...	Leila (as Miriam Boyer)
Leonora Fani	...	Jenny
Ely Galleani	...	Pam (as Ely de Galleani)
Carole Laure	...	Amy (as Carol Laure)
Eva Mattes	...	Catherine
Andrée Pelletier	...	Eileen

Storyline

Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.

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Plot Keywords:

nurse | house | murder | vietnam vet | belfast | 

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Taglines:

Don't ever let him enter your house! No woman can escape him because he was BORN FOR HELL

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

X

Details

Country:

West Germany Italy France Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

1984 (USA)

Also Known As:

Naked Massacre

Filming Locations:

Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK

Box Office

Budget:

CAD 900,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

TIT Filmproduktion GmbH, Compagnia Cinematografica Champion, Filmel

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

References Violated Angels (1967)

User Reviews

Richard Speck goes to Belfast to kill badly-dubbed Italian starlets

Even though the Richard Speck student-nurse murders took place in America, most of the movies inspired by the incident strangely enough were foreign. These include the disturbing Japanese film "Violated Angels", the relatively shocking ending to the ho-hum Italian giallo/sex romp "Slaughter Hotel", and perhaps to some extent even the Canadian proto-slasher flick "Black Christmas". This movie, however, is probably the closest in circumstances to the actual incident. Not that it doesn't make some unusual choices, especially for what is basically an exploitation film. It's set in Belfast, North Ireland, for instance, during the height of "the troubles" when bombs were exploding and Catholics, Protestants, IRA terrorists and British troops were fighting in the streets. Also, the murderer (played by Mathieu Carrare)is an American Vietnam vet where the real Speck was merely a merchant marine. The movie doesn't do much with this though as the Speck character seems far more motivated by his wife's infidelities than any trauma he suffered in Vietnam, and any on-location realism that is achieved is ruined by the bad dubbing (the Irish and English nurses and American killer all speak in the same stilted continental accents of the usual gang of Euro-idiots that dubbed these things).

The movie was distributed mostly under the more lurid title "Naked Massace", and after a strangely large amount of character development of both the nurses and the killer, it lives up to that title when they finally meet and he ties them up and starts bumping them off one by one. The real-life Speck only raped one of the nurses (although far more graphically than what is shown here), but the guy here sexually abuses nearly all of them (one of whom, perhaps in a nod to Sharon Tate, is even pregnant). The most lurid scene is when he forces two closeted lesbians to have sex with each other. Although, it's hard to do such a scene sensitively, this scene is handled even less sensitively than the similar scene in the much more infamous "Last House on the Left".

The director, Denis Heroux, interesting enough, is French Canadian and got his start in superior "maple syrup porn" films like "Valerie" and "L'Initiation" but had his career ended when he was made the scapegoat for the failure of hack British producer Milton Subotsky's idiotic horror movie "The Uncanny". This film, made in the middle of his short career, shows an interesting but obviously declining talent. The cast includes Carol Laure and pretty Italian starlet Ely Galeani. I got this as part of a cheap 50 DVD horror collection. If you can find THAT, it's definitely worth watching. Otherwise, well. . .