Bah, I should have figured this was a giallo by the description. It's well known by everyone in the world that I'm not a huge fan of giallos. Though I did get a chance to check out "Don't Torture a Duckling" which wasn't too bad, mainly because of the batshit crazy ending. Murder Mansion, unfortunately, was pretty average in just about every aspect.

The premise and setting of this Italian/Spanish hybrid really lends itself to be compared with movies like House on Haunted Hill or The Haunting, with a random bunch of clowns in a house basically there to be scared and studied.

In this case, can't say there was much rhyme or reason to any of the random ramblings of the righteous...um...ramblers...ok, enough with the alliteration. The movie even just kind of cuts off at the end with the two...main?...characters riding off in the distance with no resolution at all. Some crazy woman shoots somebody after some others pretend to be scary for some reason or another. At least with most giallos there is some semblance of sense.

I did like how quickly Motorcycle Man moved in on Random Girl #2. One second they're looking around the house for clues and the next he's taking her shirt off. What the hell? I never knew mysteries got women all hot and bothered.

Speaking of women - not a lot in the usual categories of sex and violence. Lot of sex cutaways and a few gunshots, and that's about it. Lot of ambiance, though, lots of fog and Scooby-Doo music. The two "zombies" might've been ok in a better movie.

The cinematography reminded me of "Torso," which was also a good thing. It really was too bad the story, as with most giallos, is "random murders then random person is the killer." The movie starts out with promise, too - immediately takes off with a crazy random racing scene with a phat soundtrack. Soon it plummets straight to hell, and I cry myself to sleep.

That's about it. Definitely a skipper. An awful film in a mostly dull genre.

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