An escaped convicted murderer invades the cottage of a man, his wife and the wife's sister, whereupon he proceeds to torment this already dysfunctional trio with rape and violence.
Direction
Di Leo makes 89 minutes feel like a fever dream you can't escape.
Acting
Dallesandro's dead-eyed menace masks surprising emotional complexity.
Director
Fernando Di Leo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Di Leo made this during his 'poliziotteschi' golden period, but the film was heavily censored in Italy and barely released internationally, making it a genuine obscurity until recent rediscovery.
The original Italian title 'Vacanze di sangue' (Blood Vacation) emphasizes the holiday-gone-wrong structure, but the film's real subversion is making the 'happy couple' arguably more rotten than the escaped convict.
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