What’s behind the deaths of the women attending Marianna Hill’s therapy sessions? Could it be the unsettling psychiatrist Klaus Kinski? Perhaps his daughter Donna Wilkes, who is struggling and appears in a short nude sequence that brought back memories of McLean Stevenson's "Hello Larry"? Or maybe Marianna's former husband Craig Wasson? It could even be Christopher Lloyd as a disgruntled handyman or young detective Joe Regalbuto. Hill portrays an advice columnist facing more difficulties than any collection of Ann Landers letters might contain. She’s getting threats, and the women in her group are being murdered with scissors. The killer, who was obvious to me from early on, is distinguishable by their fedora and coat—a noticeable figure during the killings that aren't particularly frightening. Hill also has a relationship with Kinski, which leads to a sex scene I’m glad I didn’t need in my life. Kinski is involved with a stripper/patient, and he proceeds to "explore her emotions" near a hot water heater, resulting in yet another unnecessary sex scene. The ending occurs at Hill's newspaper office, where the filmmakers stretch out the story by gathering all of the suspects together—similar to an Agatha Christie novel, but instead of polite conversation and a clever investigator, there are shootings and stabbings. Made and released in 1980, this film possesses elements characteristic of the slasher genre. The killings aren't extremely graphic, though they are violent. The actors do their best with what they have. Paulsen’s direction lacks any real tension; he seems to be relying on a weak script to save the movie. However, it ends up feeling contrived and absurd, yet it moves at the pace of Shakespeare. With an unpleasant electronic soundtrack (the scissors even have their own musical cue) and Kinski's exaggerated acting, one has to approach this with caution. I don’t think this is worth watching.

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