Slaughter Hotel

Slaughter Hotel (Italian: La bestia uccide a sangue freddo, lit. 'The beast kills in cold blood') is a 1971 Italian giallo film directed by Fernando Di Leo and starring Klaus Kinski. The film follows a masked killer murdering the wealthy female inmates of a sanitorium. The film was part of a wave of gialli that came about in Italy following the box office success of Dario Argento's film The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. The film led to a brief trend of thrillers about black-leather gloved wielding killers that featured scenes of overt violence. Slaughter Hotel was the first film made by Cineproduzioni Daunia 70 and was shot on scene and on film sets in Rome. The film received generally negative reviews in Italy and outside of the country.