Critique: The House of Psychotic Women is an absurd name. The house of frustrated women would have been better. The twisty ending is not well prepared, but is mildly diverting. Whoever it was that played Nicole (the character list is not available) certainly put some energy into the role. What makes these southern Europeans in the seventies ever think this jazzy-popcorn music would be appropriate for a horror movie? Maybe they were trying to lull us into a false sense security to make the horrifying events more horrifying--whatever the case, it doesn't work. The eyes being collected are not very well done, but any gouged out eye has some sensational value. World's Worst Videos

Plot Summary: A woman with a badly injured arm picks up Gilles hitchhiking. She tells him she needs a man to be caretaker. On the way, she stops for an injured pidgeon and strangles it to keep it from suffering. Gilles has a flashback of strangling a woman--presumably she was suffering as well. Nicole seems pleased about what her sister has brought back, and quickly shows up in his room with "insomnia". Doctor LeFore suggests that Evette's crippling illness is "more psychosomatic than functional". The house of Claude Roulle'. The nurse, Michelle Boute', arrives, but Claude is suspicious of her. She is also jealous when she peers into Gilles' window and sees Nicole with him. Jean, the previous caretaker, arrives and immediately attacks Gilles with a knife. However, Gilles survives the encounter, though he gets a pretty good gash. The policeman who arrives says that Margo de Frenne, who was to work there as nurse, had been strangled. That night, Nichole finds that she's been locked in her room. Apparently Claude thinks Gilles needs his sleep. However, when she looks in on him, Gilles decides that her hand doesn't make her repulsive. A local girl walks alone through the graveyard in the dark. Pretty soon she is followed. The report is that not only was she murdered, but in addition her eyes were gouged out. The townfolk seem to think Gilles is to blame. The next night, though Evette tries to lock her in, Nicole has other plans. However, someone has plans for another local girl as well--and against her will, she has eyes for him. Gilles was up and around--hmm. The police suspect Jean rather than Gilles. When Claude finds out about Gilles' secret, he tries to strangle her, but she confesses that she loves him. Oops--another blonde haired blue eyed girl alone in the dark. Two more eyes for the collection. Nicole finds a hidden passageway in the house and follows it until she finds the murderer. Next Evette in her wheelchair is moving through the darkened house. Someone is with her. Nicole has disappeared. The police find out about Gilles' secret, but Claude warns him and they head out across the mountains pursued by the police. Once the police have their man, it loks like the terror is ended. But isn't there somone following the blonde Michelle walking in the dark? When Michelle arrives at the house after a struggle with the killer, she finds Evette's wheelchair has been overturned, and blood trailing up the stairs.