This film is an extremely entertaining psychological thriller with Carrol Baker excellent as a rich American widow getting away from it all at a secluded Italian villa. Enter smart aleck down on his luck playboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hipster seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's incipient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his supposed 'sister' to help drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and group sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive depravity. I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and psychological suspense thriller credentials in spades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of crap. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime pictures in the sixties and seventies and this is one of them (other good films by Lenzi -- SPASMO, SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, to name only a few). Unfortunately this film is ofen confused with another okay but not-quite-as-good Lenzi film that was also released briefly here in America under the same PARANOIA title (but is more commonly known, especially on video, as A QUIET PLACE TO KILL).
在6年的牢狱之灾中，鲁迪（本·阿弗莱克 Ben Affleck 饰）结识了好友尼克（詹姆斯·弗莱恩 James Frain 饰），通过尼克的书信，鲁迪得知了一位名叫阿什莉（查理兹·塞隆 Charlize Theron 饰）的女子，在潜移默化之间，鲁迪竟然也对阿什莉产生了一种特殊的感情。一次监狱里的骚乱中，尼克身亡，而出狱后的鲁迪只有一个愿望，那就是找到阿什莉。 正如鲁迪所预想的那样，阿什莉是一个绝色美人，为了不让事态过去突兀，鲁迪向阿什莉谎称自己就是尼克。鲁迪和阿什莉的关系进展迅速，可与此同时，鲁迪亦发现自己似乎被卷入了一场阴谋之中。阿什莉的兄弟加布里埃尔（加里·西尼斯 Gary Sinise 饰）预谋抢劫一家赌场，在威逼利诱之间，鲁迪也入伙了。
