This great little thriller is better known as "It Happened At Nightmare Inn" and that title fits it much better.
Two women, Marta and Veronica (Aurora Bautista and Esperanza Roy respectively) run a small hotel in Spain. Marta has a very strong religious upbringing and accidentally kills a beautiful female tourist staying at the hotel after she tries to throw her out for sunbathing on the roof.
She and her sister cover up the murder, but trouble comes in the form of the woman's sister Laura (Judy Geeson) who arrives later that same day. Laura can't understand where her sis disappeared to, but she starts investigating.
In the meantime Marta and Veronica add a few more victims to their ever growing list, and Laura moves out of the hotel and into a larger one when it seems that everybody at the sisters' inn keep vanishing without a trace.
Laura gets her sister's boyfriend, Eduardo (Vic Winner) to help her, which he halfheartedly does because he can't bring himself to believe there is anything wrong.
When a young woman arrives with a baby and decides to stay and the inn Laura tries to talk her out of it, but to no avail. Marta kills the woman because she has heard a rumor that the woman has no husband, and Marta has judged her a whore that must die.
The climax to the film is very well done and it really makes you wonder what the hell is running thru the minds of those two sisters.
I enjoyed the hell out of this film and had never seen it uncut. The film is introduced on this Blu-ray by Katarina Leigh Waters who has a lot of insight to fill the viewer in on. I have said it before on other reviews, and I will say it again...any time Katarina is hosting something I will watch. She is mesmerizing.
I can highly recommend this little gem, especially if you've only had the chance to see the edited versions which are floating around on many different labels.
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