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Less a scripted story and more the stream-of-conscious mental images of some pulp sleaze writer banging out an amped up, sex-and-cannibalism filled Most Dangerous Game riff at a penny a word. While the first hour is intermittently dull (mostly the requisite soft sex scenes), by the time a nude-except-for-three-inch-heels Lina Romay is being chased by a bow-wielding nude Alice Arno and turtleneck-clad Howard Vernon to the tune of an Italian ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ ripoff, everything is as it should be. As with every other Franco film that it appears in, Bofill’s Xanadu building is treated practically like a character in of itself, subjected to the never-ending cascade of zooms and rack focuses that make his films so hypnotic. “Reject nothing that gives you pleasure,” uttered by the Howard Vernon character, might as well just be Franco's personal philosophy.
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