Casa dell'amore... la polizia interviene

Oh wow, a Giallo-type of thriller from the same director as "Delirium", and it's so obscure that it doesn't even have a known title in English. This I must see!

See, this is the sort of reasoning I should stop with! I ought to be wise and experienced enough by now to know that certain movies are obscure for a good reason, and that they are not worth discovering. "Casa dell'amore...la Polizia interviene" hasn't got anything remotely interesting or noteworthy to offer, not even for the most hardened fans of Italian cult/exploitation freaks. It's the type of film in which unlikable characters do the most illogical things and take the absolute dumbest decisions, and - what's even worse - you couldn't care less.

The original Italian title is already senseless to start with. "House of Love, the Police Intervenes"? It's a terrible and inaccurate title. There isn't any love in the house, only something that vaguely resembles satanic sacrificial rites. And the police don't interfere, they only wander around a little bit. The three leads (two yummy girls and one obnoxious guy) are irritating, but not as irritating as the two coed-kidnapping goons that look like a draft version of "The Blues Brothers". The bootleg disc I watched had terrible sound & picture quality, and the subtitles often just disappeared. However, I'm not pleading for a luxurious restored version, let it just vanish.