罗尼(文斯·沃恩 Vince Vaughn 饰)和尼克(凯文·詹姆斯 Kevin James 饰)是一对关系十分要好的死党,从大学时代一路陪伴进入职场,他们似乎是世界上最熟悉彼此的存在。不仅如此,罗尼的女友贝丝(詹妮弗·康纳利 Jennifer Connelly 饰)和尼克的妻子吉妮瓦(薇诺娜·瑞德 Winona Ryder 饰)也是一对无话不谈的好朋友。 故事要从罗尼在街上偶遇吉妮瓦的那一天说起,要命的是,那一天和吉妮瓦亲密的站在一起的却并非她的丈夫,亦是罗尼的好友尼克,而是另一个他并不认识的英俊男人。这件事情成为了罗尼的心结,在友情和道义面前,罗尼不知该如何选择。更让罗尼震惊的是,他逐渐发现尼克竟然也有着不能对他倾诉的秘密。
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).