... and the night TINS \u200b\u200bOF BLOOD (Born for Hell aka Naked Massacre - Canada / France / Germany / Italy 1976) by Denis Héroux
... And the night was tinged with blood (Trailer)

Cain Adamson (Mathieu Carrière) is a veteran, veteran in Vietnam, with (as any good self-respecting veteran of Vietnam) went from a hero of war and a mind that sees accumulation of mental and behavioral problems. Landed in Belfast, she finds herself wandering the streets, desperately trying to make ends meet, including soup kitchens, squalor, poverty and IRA bombings.
One day he finds himself, hungry and desperate, at the door of a small pension, inhabited by a group of young nurses. The girls, despite a certain wariness, the host, albeit for a short time of a simple meal.
However, in the tormented mind of Adamson quickly begins to take shape a plan, to be able to scrape together a little 'money. The same night, in fact, the veteran sneaks into the girl's house, with intent to rob. Once in the house, however, Adamson was caught by a violent spasm that causes him to torture and kill the young nurse, one by one ...
The film, directed by Canadian Denis Héroux (this is his penultimate film), is composed of two distinct parts: a subdivision of this, which requires an analysis separated. In the first part, the objective is to describe the hell of the interior and exterior character, plagued by their mental health problems and plunged into a grim reality of distressing squalor and poverty (material and interior).
From this point of view, the first segment of the film is perhaps the most interesting or at least the most successful, despite the work not just excelled Mathieu Carrière, very prolific German actor, especially on television. The attempt to psycho-social analysis, along with the outline of a protagonist who, though in search of inner peace, it shows penetrable and changeable than the bleak violence of the external environment (the background is that of Belfast in the middle of bloody battles, independence between the Irish and British government) are probably the only thing to save a film that collapses, inexorably, in the second part.
is here, in fact, that the script of Géza von Radvànyi (director, writer and producer of Hungary, to a certain thickness) shows its side weak. The attempt to give depth to the film, in fact, gives way to a second part, blatantly exploitative , where the protagonist turns (quite inexplicably, after all) in a murderous sex maniac. Adamson kidnaps the beautiful young nurse, oblige them to undress and have lesbian relationships, the torture and finally kill them. Despite these "delicacies" from gourmet happy that would make any fan of a certain film (de) generally does not push too Héroux (as it could and should, at this point), the pedal bloody dell'exploitation. We pass, therefore, directed by a stripped, essential, functional part of the first film, a triumph of tits, ass and hairy cespuglioni decidedly vintage but all in all, a lot boring and repetitive.
For the avid film lover should also be noted that the film of Denis Héroux shows interesting similarities with the film "Angels violated," directed by Koji Wakamatsu in 1967. Both films, in fact, inspired by the savage exploits, of which he became the leading American Richard Speck, in the 60s. Also in the film Wakamatsu, we find a young protagonist, disturbed and sexually repressed, decided to break into a dormitory for young nurses, with the intent to torture and kill. Mutatis mutandis, the movie Héroux, at times, seems like a Westernized version and diluted (Wakamatsu's film takes a little more than an hour) of "Angels violated." Obviously, the films of Koji Wakamatsu is something completely different and "Angels violated" in this case is a film that can actually, in an admirable and intelligent to talk about insanity, obsession and repression.
For the lover of beauty a bit ' retro , however, point out the presence in the film Héroux, Leonora Fani ("Giallo in Venice "" bestial, "" Hot Lips "), Ely Galleani (" The Way of prostitution, "" Black Venetian " "Emanuelle Nera: Orient reportage," "Mark the cop shoots first", "The police prosecute, the law serves," "A lizard-skinned woman", "5 Dolls for an August Moon") and Debra Berger ("Inglorious Bastards," "Emanuelle Nera: Orient reportage).
MEISTER STEINER SAYS: 3.5