After her success playing a wealthy American in Europe who has a racy shower sex scene in psycho thriller The Sweet Body of Deborah, Carroll Baker plays a wealthy American in Europe who has a racy shower scene in the psycho thriller Orgasmo. This time she's a widow, living in a villa, who gets hot for a drifter (Leo Castel), with whom she has the aforementioned sex scene - quite racy it is too with Castel going down on Baker in the shower.
To make things more complicated, Castel's sister (Colette Descombes) turns up, making flirty eyes at Baker and Castel - it turns out they're not blood relatives, so Descombes winds up in bed with Castel, then the three of them in bed together, then Descombes with Baker alone, so it's all pretty hot stuff which could have been remade for DVD in the 1990s.
Descombe and Castel then set about trying to drive Baker insane, meaning the star can cut loose with some fine acting - she gives a good performance. And it's a surprisingly good movie for the most part - junky to be sure, and the production design could have been more opulent, but enjoyable in its twisted, sexy way with Baker boozing it up and various couples rolling around in bed.
The big problem with the movie comes in the last act -normally in this sort of movie you hope for a couple of more twists, but this movie doesn't have done, apart from the lawyer being in on it - which isn't much of a twist since he didn't have much of a character. Instead Baker goes bonkers, then more bonkers, then even more bonkers... then dies. You wait for some revelation: that she faked her death, it was a plan all along, some other character to come in and avenge her - but nope. Then the lawyer gets arrested and the brother and sister die in a car accident a la Postman Always Rings Twice. It's disappointing.
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