This film is an extremely entertaining psychological thriller with Carrol Baker excellent as a rich American widow getting away from it all at a secluded Italian villa. Enter smart aleck down on his luck playboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hipster seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's incipient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his supposed 'sister' to help drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and group sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive depravity.
I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and psychological suspense thriller credentials in spades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of crap. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime pictures in the sixties and seventies and this is one of them (other good films by Lenzi -- SPASMO, SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, to name only a few).
Unfortunately this film is ofen confused with another okay but not-quite-as-good Lenzi film that was also released briefly here in America under the same PARANOIA title (but is more commonly known, especially on video, as A QUIET PLACE TO KILL).
很久没看过后劲这么大的好片了——越咂摸越有味道，简直回味无穷。好电影都有有一种魅力，那就是让你看完还想再看，《犬之力》就是这样的电影。
男性之力，包括强权之力和强壮之力。本片凸出了男性的强权之力，也顺带辩证地观赏男性的强壮之力。男权体系之下，阴柔与出柜都成了绝对禁忌，对心灵的长期囚禁造就了阴暗世界的传承，男人与男孩也便成了镜像一般的存在。故事内核方面，与戛纳大热的《钛》殊途同归，热衷于把控世界的阳刚之气，放不下对强权的臣服，涂炭了人本来的爱与善良，杀敌一百，自损三千。欧美的学院系统好像越来越关注人类个体情感的自处，这比一味追求“价值正确”要高级很多，也进步了很多。
被画面和声音吸引，无H可放心观看
anti-血色将至啊，优质到无趣 @望京电影资料馆
拍得既残忍又极其克制，细腻别致，也许有新的男性气质在暗中慢慢浮现，但我觉得始终没有跳出传统刻板人设上。
我终于在peter说他有多的生皮可以让phil编完绳子的时候看出了peter的杀意。
俩兄弟，一个奔向社会，一个奔向荒野，一个扮演男性领袖深藏不伦，一个扮演家庭主人渴望虚荣。只有那个男孩的父亲看清了他，担心他不够善良。
啥几把，就是这种神叨叨的片子，才让豆瓣影评有价值。不看影评等于白看。
缓慢的情节推进让最终黑化的走向来得有些猝不及防，克制的技巧背后暗流汹涌的感觉是不错的，但对小说的裁剪还是显得内容空洞、人物也不够饱满。卷福这回够颠覆，演一个和自己差别这么大的角色到这种程度，已经很了不起了。
强悍，也许是软弱的伪装；软弱，也许是另一种强悍。天地不仁，以万物为刍狗。像恶犬一样互相撕咬的人们，其实无所谓好坏，悲剧的只是，他们的欲望彼此冲撞。
观影时总感觉呼吸道有狗屎马尿味，就这样还是让我瞌睡过去了
似乎什麼都沒發生，底下卻暗流湧動，情緒比情節更吸引人。期待情感最後走向更曖昧與複雜，最怕的是故事往類型方向發展，想不到最後真的是復仇殺人，不禁索然無味。
你终将被你所爱之物杀死。风景绝美而风云变幻，节奏在缓慢绵长中剑拔弩张，情感在压抑与肆虐中撕扯。。。人物的外在表现和内心性格里呈现出巨大的反差，最后效果很棒，一切尽在不言中。
A damaged person will eventually be destroyed by the world. It’s he versus the world. Phil lived in the past and lived in the memory. But life goes on, so either the world destroys him or he keeps attacking everyone to maintain his balance. Once he shows vulnerability, he can not immune to the harm, cause he is so lonely, lonely to death.
直到最后一刻才展露邪魅一笑，稍纵即逝。
电影没做过多交代，表面上是乔治依赖他，其实在心理上他依赖弟弟。
我一看就觉得peter有点norman bates的影子 果不其然 ……太雷同了……不管个性喜好家庭背景等等…因为这个让我对这电影有点失望 特别是peter的演员凭借这个角色拿了金球奖 而我家freddie呢？一个艾美金球都没有……
对喜爱的兔子不带一丝情绪地痛下杀手；
像Phi这样的人，他死去比活着幸福。
从开头两兄弟的气质设定，我就猜到越刚的那位越有心结，越有心结就越容易是被当时的西部社会不容，越被不容则越容易猜到是LGBT。然后一部从开头10分钟就知道要讲啥的片子，做作的旁敲侧击的搞了2小时，我只能说有些做作。好的，卷老师的演技真的还是没有图灵时唯妙唯肖，过于刚硬的掩饰其实也让他端起来了许多。
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