p Another brilliant giallo thriller from director Francesco Barilli, whose THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK was one of the genre#39;s most haunting and original films. This Italian-Spanish follow-up is a bit muddled, but no less engrossing.br/ Set in a family hotel in Northern Italy in 1945, the film concerns Rosa (Leonora Fani), who helps her mother run the hotel while awaiting her soldier father#39;s return from the front. In a Barilli film, nothing is as it seems, and before long Mom (who is sleeping with a traitor she#39;s hidden in the attic) is murdered. Then poor Rosa is raped by two of the guests, who also are murdered, and while she#39;s hiding the bodies she is forced into an orgy by all of the other guests. But before the guests get to far a mysterious man enters all shots the guests. Who is this mysterious man and what are his intentions for Rosa?br/ Like all the best gialli, Pensione Paura completely dispenses with logic early on, elevating weirdness to nearly operatic levels while absorbing the viewer in a thick and spellbinding atmosphere of mounting dread. Francisco Rabal co-stars with Luc Merenda, Lidia Biondi, and Jose Maria Prada./p...
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p Another brilliant giallo thriller from director Francesco Barilli, whose THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK was one of the genre#39;s most haunting and original films. This Italian-Spanish follow-up is a bit muddled, but no less engrossing.br/ Set in a family hotel in Northern Italy in 1945, the film concerns Rosa (Leonora Fani), who helps her mother run the hotel while awaiting her soldier father#39;s return from the front. In a Barilli film, nothing is as it seems, and before long Mom (who is sleeping with a traitor she#39;s hidden in the attic) is murdered. Then poor Rosa is raped by two of the guests, who also are murdered, and while she#39;s hiding the bodies she is forced into an orgy by all of the other guests. But before the guests get to far a mysterious man enters all shots the guests. Who is this mysterious man and what are his intentions for Rosa?br/ Like all the best gialli, Pensione Paura completely dispenses with logic early on, elevating weirdness to nearly operatic levels while absorbing the viewer in a thick and spellbinding atmosphere of mounting dread. Francisco Rabal co-stars with Luc Merenda, Lidia Biondi, and Jose Maria Prada./p...