A slasher where the bodies vanish and the prudes inherit the earth.
Daniel, a writer seeking seclusion to work on his new book, finds himself stranded at a rural bed and breakfast run by a strange and prudish young woman and her ailing, wheelchair-bound husband who remains shut in his room all day. As night falls, a psychotic, razor-wielding killer begins stalking the bed and breakfast, brutally slashing the throats of its most sex-crazed guests, whose bodies and luggage then mysteriously disappear the following morning...
Direction
Klimovsky's sweaty, claustrophobic atmosphere
Production
Genuinely unsettling B&B location
Director
León Klimovsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
León Klimovsky directed multiple Paul Naschy werewolf films—this was his stab at straight giallo territory.
The film's Spanish title 'It Happened at Nightmare Inn' was changed for US markets to ride the 'trauma' trend of 70s psychological horror.
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