Crawlspace (1986)

Not sure where it came from, but I recently felt I was long overdue for a rewatching of "Crawlspace" seeing as how it had been well over a decade since I'd last seen it. Plus, Klaus Kinski is fucking awesome and can pretty much make anything watchable... And that's pretty much what happens here.

Kinski plays the landlord of a apartment complex of which he only seems to rent to attractive young women. Reason? Well, he enjoys crawling around in the ducts and peeping in on them, preferably undressing and/or having sex. He also has little gizmo's rigged up around the building, such as a little trapdoor for which to allow rats into rooms as well as a few stabbing contraptions methodically placed here and there. When some guy beings sleuthing around, accusing Kinski of coming from a sadist Nazi background, the newest lady-tenant finds out some sinister shit and gets on the demented landlord's bad side...

"Crawlspace" is quite an unremarkable movie, overall. Not to say it's BAD, it's just kind of basic and one-note. Kinski is entertaining, of course - pulling off a pretty effective and creepy performance that keeps the movie rolling along. But, otherwise, there's nothing at all really stand-out about this. There's not much gore to speak of, very little nudity (some obligatory nips through specially cut bra-holes is pretty much it...) and not much emphasis is put on character development or 'growth'. Still, it's worth checking out for Kinski who acts as the saving grace for this flick...