Slaughter Hotel is a 1971 Italian horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 directed by Fernando Di Leo

Fernando Di Leo

Fernando Di Leo was an Italian film director and script writer born in San Ferdinando di Puglia. During his career from 1964 to 1985, Di Leo directed 20 films and was involved in the writing process in 43...

 and starring Klaus Kinski

Klaus Kinski

Klaus Kinski, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski , was a German actor. He appeared in more than 130 films, and is perhaps best-remembered as a leading role actor in Werner Herzog films: Aguirre, the Wrath of God , Nosferatu the Vampyre , Woyzeck , Fitzcarraldo and Cobra Verde .-Early...

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Plot

An axe-wielding maniac stalks the beautiful, scantily-clad women of an upscale sanitarium, all under the watchful eye of the mysterious Dr. Keller (Klaus Kinski).

Cast

• Klaus Kinski
  Klaus Kinski
  Klaus Kinski, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski , was a German actor. He appeared in more than 130 films, and is perhaps best-remembered as a leading role actor in Werner Herzog films: Aguirre, the Wrath of God , Nosferatu the Vampyre , Woyzeck , Fitzcarraldo and Cobra Verde .-Early...
  
   - Dr. Francis Clay
• Margaret Lee
  Margaret Lee (British actress)
  Margaret Lee is a British actress who was a popular leading lady in Italian films in the 1960s and 1970s...
  
   - Cheryl Hume
• Rosalba Neri
  Rosalba Neri
  Rosalba Neri , sometimes credited as Sara Bey or Sara Bay, is a retired Italian actress.-Biography:When she was very young, she won a beauty pageant and attended il Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia...
  
   - Anne Palmieri
• Jane Garret - Mara
• John Karlsen - Professor Osterman
• Gioia Desideri - Ruth
• John Ely - Gardener
• Fernando Cerulli - Augusto, the chauffeur
• Sandro Rossi
• Giulio Baraghini - Policeman
• Ettore Geri - Inspector
• Antonio Radaelli
• Monica Strebel - Nurse Helen
• Carla Mancini - Nurse
• Franco Marletta - Male nurse
• Piero Nistri
• Daniela Di Bitorno
• Enzo Spitaleri
• Marco Mariani - Male nurse
• Gilberto Galimberti - Policeman
• Rosanna Braida
• Lina Franchi - Nurse killed with scythe (uncredited)

Release

The film was released theatrically in the United States

United States

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 by Hallmark Releasing in 1972.

The film was released on DVD

DVD

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 by Media Blasters

Media Blasters

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on their sub-label Shriek Show in 2004.