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Inn
of the Damned
(1975)
Inn of
the Damned is a 1975
thriller set in the old
West (bafflingly Gippsland
in Victoria) where a
rundown inn in the middle
of nowhere is the site for
a string of murders.
Caroline (Dame Judith
Anderson from Rebecca) and
her ever loyal husband
Lazar (Joseph Fürst) run
the inn where they kill
anybody who stays in their
establishment, an action
which has something to do
with their young children
dying or something.
Presumably, nobody told
them that a successful
hotel business depends on
return customers and
word-of-mouth. One day, a
trooper (Tony Bonner)
stays there and is crushed
in the bed by a platform
weighed down by heavy
rocks that is operated by
Lazar. But this couldn't
have happened at a worse
time as the place gets
busy for the first time
ever. First, a couple of
noble women with their
horseman get caught in a
rainstorm and stop off to
get out of the rain, then
a maverick sheriff (Alex
Cord), who has just killed
a child killer who was
harboured by the inn
couple in self-defence,
goes looking for the
trooper and finds that the
inn has much more than
meets the eye.
Overlong (pushing two
hours) movie that has
pretensions to greatness
including being heavily
inspired by Hitchcock
(Psycho particularly), but
comes up short mainly
thanks to too much going
on. That's not to say that
there aren't good things
in the movie. It is well
cast, particularly the inn
couple who are very
unnerving. The murders are
quite nasty and well done
and the movie is
technically proficient,
but it's the story that
lets the movie down. It
feels like two movies
rolled into one, hence the
quite long running time.
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