Crawlspace

Kinski has made a career of playing homicidal nuts on the big screen, whether in such exploitative cheapies as SCHIZOID or in such brilliant pictures as AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD and FITZCARRALDO. This time out he plays the demented son of a Nazi war criminal. A physician and expert in euthanasia, Kinski runs a safe-looking boarding house for nubile young starlets. Behind the walls, however, lies a maze of crawl spaces through which Gunther slinks on his belly. For cheap thrills, he peeks through the heating vents to watch the girls undressing. To give them a little scare, he bangs on the vents and later blames the racket on rats. But Kinski is not simply a voyeur;...