Another brilliant giallo thriller from director Francesco Barilli, whose THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK was one of the genre's most haunting and original films. This Italian-Spanish follow-up is a bit muddled, but no less engrossing.　　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'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's hidden in the attic) is murdered. Then poor Rosa is raped by two of the guests, who also are murdered, and while she'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?　　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.

　　来自英国的家庭教师安娜来到西班牙马德里的一户富贵人家，家中有老夫人、三个儿子以及二儿子的妻女。老夫人精神失常，噩梦连连；大儿子何塞权力欲强，掌管家事，痴迷军人形象；二儿子胡安沉溺女色，与家中女仆私通；三儿子费尔南多寡言少语，在洞穴中苦修。安娜的到来打破了一家人看似平静的生活，家中三个男人都想把安娜占为己有但不得手，结局最终导向将安娜驱逐出门，三兄弟趁机拿她补偿各自的欲念。

《侩子手》是西班牙写实主义大师贝尔兰加的巅峰之作，以辛辣的笔调描写了一个连苍蝇都不敢打的青年人，为生活所迫竟当上刽子手的故事。影片虽在如今的各大西班牙经典影片榜单上名列前茅，但由于推出时正处于弗朗哥黑暗时期，长时间没有得到人们的认可。

　　《侩子手》是西班牙写实主义大师贝尔兰加的巅峰之作，以辛辣的笔调描写了一个连苍蝇都不敢打的青年人，为生活所迫竟当上刽子手的故事。影片虽在如今的各大西班牙经典影片榜单上名列前茅，但由于推出时正处于弗朗哥黑暗时期，长时间没有得到人们的认可。