Another reviewer refers to this as being 'sensationally sleazy and spectacularly silly,' a view with which I must concur. Sad though this is for a film directed by Fernando Di Leo and starring Rosalba Neri and Klaus Kinski, it does not mean that it is not entertaining. Di Leo has made fine films and written even more but there is little evidence of the director here apart from the odd flourish of curious angles or startling overhead shots. Kinski spends his time smoking, looking suspicious or waiting for some dialogue. Neri probably works harder than anyone, is probably out of her clothes more than she is in them and has fairly protracted and explicit scenes. Overall then, a mess but with such absurd and extreme elements that for the broad minded it can be quite irresistible. There is a fascination in watching such a car crash or as here, in particular, the blood ooze from within an iron maiden or a naked woman being enthusiastically axed to death.
Review of Asylum Erotica
