Paul Bartel, besides being a great character actor that shows up in many Roger Corman-produced films, was also a pretty amazing director. This is his first feature, after making a few short films, and it's a pretty awesome bit of cinematic weirdness. The plot sorta plays like a murder mystery but the killing seem to take a backseat along the way to just general strange goings on at an old hotel. There's an oddball cast of characters(including my favorite a flaming gay leather-daddy priest), a see-through blow-up doll that gets filled with water and blood for quite the visual, and a final message that's sure to offend most trannys in the year 2019(then again what doesn't?). Bartel name drops ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE except that movie didn't come out until 2 years later(so I guess he has prescient psychic abilities as well!). The character of Aunt Martha always makes me think of the movie titled SOMETIMES AUNT MARTHA DOES DREADFUL THINGS because she does! Definitely more rewatchable than that Howard Stern movie of the same name. Watch it ona double-feature with Bartel's equally wacky EATING RAOUL for a added thrills.
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