Klaus Kinski plays a psycho landlord who spies on his female tenants through the air vents. Then he abducts them to put them through his torture devices. He's a Nazi, so that should explain enough about this doctor's anatomical curiosities.
Naturally, Klaus makes for a great villain because he was obviously a bit psychotic in real life. He reminds me of an old co-worker of mine. Not because my co-worker was a psycho Nazi, but because they're both old gray-haired men. Pretty loose logic there, but I can't help what I'm reminded of.
It's not a very long movie, and it's not very graphic, but there are some cool deaths in there. It's also interesting that most if not all of this movie takes place inside the building. It's a very confined movie, maybe not as claustrophobic as they were intending, but he does keep a prisoner in a pretty dinky sized cage, so it's confined in that sense too.
Decent flick. Gotta love those actors who can slip into psychotic roles so easily. Look at how much of an asshole he was via these IMDb trivia tidbits:
According to Schmoeller, Kinski started six fistfights during the first three days of filming.
During filming, as Klaus Kinski became more and more difficult to deal with, director David Schmoeller noticed Kinski had a crush on one of the young female actresses (Tane McClure, daughter of Doug McClure) and would always be polite and on his best behavior while she was on the set. Towards the end of filming, Schmoeller asked McClure to remain on the set as often as possible so Kinski would be more cooperative and the film could wrap sooner.
Director David Schmoeller and producer Roberto Bessi wanted to fire Kinski, due to his impossible behavior on set, but were stopped from doing so by Empire Pictures, since Kinski's name would attract viewers.
Kinski was apparently very unhappy with the wardrobe that had been selected for his character, buying a whole new set of clothes and charging the costs to the film production. Afterwards, he kept the clothes for himself.
and unrelated...
Sets are reused from Troll (1986).
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