Summaries

A serially unfaithful businessman rents a spare room from two siblings to use for his sexual conquests, unaware that they're serial killers who murder every woman he brings there.

A room gets put up for rent following the mysterious murder of its previous tenant. When an apartment-hunting man sees the deal the brother and sister landlords are offering, he immediately puts down the first month's rent and starts spending his days there, even though he has a home to spend his nights at with his wife. When he comes home, he tells his wife about the fantasies he has of having sex with various women each day in his new apartment. His wife goes along with it for a while, but when she discovers that her husband's stories are much more than just fantasies, she starts to do some investigating.—Jean-Marc Rocher <[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • well dressed man
  • numerous handsome men
  • missionary position
  • implied threesome
  • boyfriend watches girlfriend have sex with another man
Genres
  • Thriller
  • Horror
Release date Dec 8, 1982
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production companies Lancer Productions Limited Ram Productions Butler-Cronin Productions

Box office

Budget $250000

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 28m
Color Color
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

Larry [Jimmy Stathis] thinks it's a dream come true when he rents an exotic "fantasyroom" in a mansion in the Hollywood Hills for only $200 a month. He usesit for his trysts with various women and then goes home at night to tellhis wife Robin [Clara Perryman] all about them. Robin doesn't believe a word of it, but shedoes like how Larry's fantasies are having a stimulating effect on theirlovelife, which is too often interrupted by the demands of their twochildren, Mark [Edwin Avedissian] and Jenny [Allisun Kale].

Larry's landlords, Jason [Stephen Knight] and Bridget [ Cassandra Gaviola], are brother and sister. Jasonhas a blood disorder called thalassemia aka Cooley's anemia. Bridget helpsJason to find victims whose blood they exsanguinate and transfuse intoJason when he starts having one of his spells, which are becoming more andmore frequent. They also take great delight in peeking through the one-waymirror and photographing Larry and his activities in the black room. Aftera few weeks, Larry and Bridget start playing together, too.

Everything is going along smoothly until Robin borrows Larry's car todo some shopping and comes upon both the ad and the keys for the blackroom. Shaken in her realization that Larry has been telling the truth,Robin makes a copy of the key and goes snooping. The room is real enough,and when she happens upon Jason, he shows her pictures of Larry and hissex partners as proof. Robin is horrified and stays to watch Larry thenext time he brings one of his girls (Lisa [Charlie Young]) to the room.

Jason suggests that Robin join in her husband's game and bring herown lovers to the room. Mostly out of revenge but also curiosity, Robininvites Lisa's boyfriend Terry [Christopher McDonald]. While they have sex, Larry watches throughthe mirror and does a slow burn. Later that evening, after they havereturned home, Larry gives Robin an ultimatum...him or the room. Robinneeds some time alone, so she leaves the kids with Larry and goes to theroom to think.

Meanwhile, Bridget and Jason have lured Terry and Lisa to the roomand fed them wine laced with knock-out drops. They carry their bodies downto the lab and proceed to drain them of their blood. When Robin arrives,she drinks some of the drugged wine and passes out. Larry calls theirbabysitter Milly [Linnea Quigley] to stay with the kids, and then he drives to the mansion.When he arrives, Jason chloroforms him and chains him in the black roomwith Robin. Bridget telephones Milly and tells her to bring the kids andjoin Robin and Larry. When Milly arrives, Bridget lures the kids out tothe garden while Jason takes Milly down to the lab.

Jason then returns to the black room where Robin and Larry arechained together. When he releases the chains to prepare Robin forexsanguination, Larry suddenly leaps up and strangles Jason with a chain.Larry then releases Robin and goes looking for the kids. He finds Milly inthe lab but, before he can release her, Bridget locks the lab door.Robin wakes up and twists a coathanger into a point. When sheencounters Bridget, she jabs the point into Bridget's neck. Robin releasesLarry from the lab, and they go looking for the kids. They find themasleep on the couch and take them out to the car. Then they rememberMilly, and Larry goes back to get her. Meanwhile, Jason has come toconsciousness. He tries to attack Larry, but Larry stabs him in thestomach and drowns him in a bathtub of blood. Larry carries Milly out tothe car and, after having some trouble getting the car to start, the fiveof them drive away.

Meanwhile, inside the mansion, Jason and Bridget both revive. A fewdays later, an ad appears in the newspaper for an exotic "fantasy room" ina mansion in the Hollywood Hills for only $200 a month. [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl]

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