Labyrinth der Angst (1980)

Labyrinth der Angst: Directed by John Huston. With Paul Michael Glaser, Susan Hogan, John Colicos, David Bolt. A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.

“The late, great John Huston apparently went on a bender and woke up in Canada where they plopped him in the directoru0026#39;s chair to helm a tax-shelter u0026quot;psychologicalu0026quot; horror flick remarkably similar to u0026quot;Schizoidu0026quot;, a slightly better Klaus Kinski vehicle released the same year. An unorthodox psychiatrist finds that his patients are being murdered, ironically in ways that play to their greatest phobias. So who could be the killer? Well, I wonu0026#39;t spoil it, but all you have to do is looking at the frickinu0026#39; tag line.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBesides being generic and dull, the main problem here is the male lead. Canadians do tend to have an inferiority complex sometimes, but I find it hard to believe that they couldnu0026#39;t have found a greater thespian talent in that entire country than u0026quot;Hutchu0026quot; (or was it u0026quot;Starskyu0026quot;–I get confused?). Paul Michael Glaser gives a central performance that is every bit as compelling as paint drying. As for Huston, this fortunately wasnu0026#39;t his swan-song–he ended his life with an impressive troika of films, u0026quot;Under the Volcanou0026quot;, u0026quot;Prizziu0026#39;s Honoru0026quot;, and u0026quot;The Deadu0026quot;. This was merely an unfortunate misstep for him.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe only good thing I can say about this (and Iu0026#39;m really clutching for straws here), is that, also like u0026quot;Schizoidu0026quot;, it does have a surprising and uncharacteristic nude scene by a young lovely of the Canadian tax shelter era. With u0026quot;Schizoidu0026quot; it was Donna Wilkes; here it is Lisa Langlois, who was in Claude Chabrolu0026#39;s u0026quot;Blood Relativesu0026quot; and any number of Canadian films better than this (maybe THAT was the whole reason I watched this years back–who knows?). Other than that small favor though its eminently forgettable”