Raro Video U.S. have confirmed that that their upcoming Blu-ray release of director Fernando Di Leo's
Slaughter Hotel a.k.a.
La bestia uccide a sangue freddo (1971) will use a new high-definition transfer struck from the original camera negative. The release is expected to arrive on the U.S. market later this year.
From the maestro of mayhem, Fernando Di Leo (
Rulers of the City, Manhunt) comes one of the sleaziest and nastiest slasher films ever made. Starring Klaus Kinski (Herzog's
Nosferatu), and two of Europe's most sizzling cinematic sex queens - Margaret Lee (Ricardo Freda's
Double Face, Jess Franco's
Venus in Furs, Psycho Circus), Rosalba Neri (
Lady Frankenstein, Devil's Wedding Night, The Arena with Pam Grier). An axe-wielding maniac stalks the beautiful, scantily-clad women of an upscale sanitarium, all under the watchful eye of the mysterious Dr. Keller (Kinski). Equal and excessive doses of slash and skin make for a very European-style of grindhouse entertainment.