A drug trafficker's wife has been murdered. He has no alibi and will certainly be the chief suspect. Trouble is he is connected to various high flyers and they do not want their man implicated so they hide him and his mistress temporarily in a deserted hotel. Soon, strangers appear in the night and bizarre events begin to escalate out of control.
Well this one sure qualifies as one of the more obscure gialli out there. It has an odd feel to it that can best be described as surreal and off-kilter. I think the setting has something to do with it. Most of the movie is set within the confines of the hotel. This ensures that there is a claustrophobic feel to this giallo. Almost everything seems to happen in the dead of night and there is an impressively consistent dream-like tone to proceedings once the strange events get underway. An elderly man matter-of-factly asks for assistance in disposing of the body of his wife who he has just murdered for a trivial reason; there is a strange room where a girl bathes alongside a monkey; enigmatic women drift through the corridors of the hotel and say ambiguous things. The movie really gets going once these strange hotel guests start appearing and I think its this whole dream-like section in the dead of night in an abandoned hotel that mark this giallo out as a little distinctive from its peers. Of additional note is the theme tune which is a blues-rock number – it's not exactly normal to have the likes of that score one of these flicks – it only adds to the oddball feel to this one. Unusual stuff on the whole, which is a good thing of course.
