Buyers and viewers beware: this film is not for the morally upstanding, the faint of heart or mind, or pretty much anyone else for that matter. This movie takes a good portion of all the extreme elements of forced sexual perversity, throws them in a blender, adds a good portion of torture fetishism and makes a bile flavored smoothie out of them expecting you to drink it, which I did, and it tasted awful, really interesting.....but awful.
There is a really interesting bit of publicity/trivia about this flick that I'm going to assume gave it more staying power than it probably would have had all on its own. The director/writer was murdered shortly after the release of this film (somewhere around 1976), to which most people in "the know" attribute solely to the fact that he created this film. Knowing how the conservative majority thinks thanks in part to my conservative upbringing, I'm thinking this is not a far fetched assumption at all, considering the contents of this little piece of hell.
The film is set in the post Nazi/fascist era of World War II Italy, where a group of hyper wealthy fascist supporters decide in the wake of the war that they can exploit the local population for their own twisted amusement. Kidnapping a good twenty or so young adults and teenagers to whisk away to their little "love mansion" as I'm going to dub it. That's when things start to get heinously vile. Forced orgies, beatings, human waste consumption (#1 and #2 are both present and accounted for), and extreme physical violence are rained down on the poor victims like some sort of napalm bukkake straight out of Satan's cock. The part that makes this film feel even more disturbing is that it is so well shot and produced, not giving the viewer the luxury of a grainy, easily dismissed, grindhouse or low budget experience. Instead feeling a bit more like the Sound of Music goes to the seventh layer of Hell.
The acting is well done enough to exude its own brand of creepy perversion to the film as well, featuring a couple of older retired whores who get their audience "in the mood" with grand tales of sodomy and excess. The "audience" consisting of the fascist supporters, who happen to be a few of the sickest weirdos I've seen in film to date, wringing out every last ounce of disgust and abhorrence from me and the others I watched this film with. All in all, they made this film exactly what it was supposed to be, disgustingly shocking.
I'm going to suggest that no one watch this movie by themselves, because it is a picture that, no question, requires morale support to make it through. And for a good portion of you, just skip it all together. Having said those things, I'll end this with the statement that I'm glad I watched it, but I'm just as glad that it is over.
tastelessness 10/10
gore 7/10
must-see-ness 6/10
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