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Paranoia

Original title: Orgasmo
  • 19691969
  • XX
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
1.4K
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Paranoia (1969)
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A rich, alcoholic widow assuages her loneliness through a ménage à trois with two seductive step-siblings, whose true motives threaten her sanity and life.A rich, alcoholic widow assuages her loneliness through a ménage à trois with two seductive step-siblings, whose true motives threaten her sanity and life.A rich, alcoholic widow assuages her loneliness through a ménage à trois with two seductive step-siblings, whose true motives threaten her sanity and life.
IMDb RATING
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1.4K
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  • Director
    • Umberto Lenzi
  • Writers
    • Umberto Lenzi(story)
    • Marie Claire Solleville
    • Ugo Moretti
  • Stars
    • Carroll Baker
    • Lou Castel
    • Colette Descombes
  • Director
    • Umberto Lenzi
  • Writers
    • Umberto Lenzi(story)
    • Marie Claire Solleville
    • Ugo Moretti
  • Stars
    • Carroll Baker
    • Lou Castel
    • Colette Descombes
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 28User reviews
    • 29Critic reviews
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  • Videos1

    Complete Lenzi/Baker Giallo Collection Official Trailer
    Trailer 3:12
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    Carroll Baker in Paranoia (1969)
    Carroll Baker, Lou Castel, and Colette Descombes in Paranoia (1969)
    Carroll Baker in Paranoia (1969)
    Carroll Baker in Paranoia (1969)
    Lou Castel in Paranoia (1969)
    Colette Descombes in Paranoia (1969)
    Carroll Baker in Paranoia (1969)
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    Paranoia (1969)
    Carroll Baker and Colette Descombes in Paranoia (1969)

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    Carroll Baker
    Carroll Baker
    • Kathryn
    Lou Castel
    Lou Castel
    • Peter
    Colette Descombes
    Colette Descombes
    • Eva
    Tino Carraro
    • Brian
    Lilla Brignone
    Lilla Brignone
    • Teresa
    Franco Pesce
    • Martino
    Tina Lattanzi
    • Kathryn's Aunt
    Jacques Stany
    • Police Inspector
    Sara Simoni
    Gaetano Imbró
    Calisto Calisti
    Alberto Corchi
      Maria Rosiello
      Joseph Guilty
      • Arnold Cleever
      • (uncredited)
      • Director
        • Umberto Lenzi
      • Writers
        • Umberto Lenzi(story)
        • Marie Claire Solleville
        • Ugo Moretti
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      Storyline

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      Did you know

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      • Trivia
        This film is the first part of a trilogy that also includes So Sweet... So Perverse (1969) and A Quiet Place to Kill (1970).
      • Goofs
        The two times Eva plays the Wess & The Airedales song "Just Tell Me", they are two different records with two very different labels.
      • Quotes

        Peter: [coming from the garden, hands dirty] Are you afraid of getting dirty?

        Kathryn: [swooning as his dirty hands clasp her waist, his lips ravishing her] Oh, yes! Dirty me! Dirty me, dirty me! Yes! Yes! Yes!

      • Alternate versions
        Original Italian version titled "Orgasmo" runs 97 minutes; American version is cut to 91 min. and re-titled "Paranoia".
      • Connections
        Edited into Dusk to Dawn Drive-in Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 10 (2007)
      • Soundtracks
        Fate Had Planned It So
        Written by Lydia MacDonald (as Mac Donald) and Piero Umiliani (as Umiliani)

        Sung by Lydia MacDonald (as Lydia Mac Donald)

      User reviews28

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      7/10
      Free love - I've got kids - I hate YOU
      For his third film of 1969, Umberto Lenzi goes for the full groovy sixties vibe with the trippy visuals, free living people who you just want to slap, laid back music and all that crap. It's quite good though, kind of! Caroll Baker is a young widow who is rich beyond her wildest dreams, but has ended up in one of the gigantic mansions that occur in about 95% of Italian films of this era. She's hitting the hooch, but things look up a bit when hunky young Peter Sorel turns up, offering Caroll some free loving and free thinking - just like everyone else of his age and generation. The twats.

      Caroll falls in love with Peter, who manages to get himself invited to the mansion and moves in proper, as does his sister, who likes to give Caroll pills and looks like David Bowie (what's with these actresses looking like David Bowie?). Caroll feels young again, but is it all too good to be true? When Caroll catches Peter in bed with the sister, the answer is 'probably'.

      Yep, it's another low-violence, high suspense giallo with all the trimmings - annoying free love, pills, booze, crap like 'jealousy is all in the mind' - all that stuff. I don't want to reveal what happens mind you but for a film where not much happen it's still quite watchable. Lenzi cranks up the 'trippy' visuals too, some of which don't make sense, but it's probably the best of the three films he made in 1969.

      Except the ending is the EXACT ending of Oasis of Fear! You can't fool me Lenzi!
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      Details

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      • Release date
        • February 7, 1969 (Italy)
      • Countries of origin
        • Italy
        • France
      • Language
        • Italian
      • Also known as
        • Orgasm
      • Filming locations
        • Elios Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy(interiors, as Elios Film)
      • Production companies
        • Tritone Cinematografica
        • Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC)
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 31 minutes
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 2.35 : 1

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