Naked Massacre (1976)
1976 · Feature film · 85 min · dir. Denis Héroux
- Drama
- Thriller
- Horror
Synopsis
Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.
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Details
- Director
- Denis Héroux
- Running time
- 85 minutes
Cast & crew
Denis Héroux Director
Mathieu Carrière
Debra Berger
Christine Boisson
Myriam Boyer
Leonora Fani
Ely Galleani
Carole Laure
Eva Mattes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Very good movie, but disturbing and graphic · chriskemila · 2011-02-20
Also known as Born for Hell this movie details the exploits of a trained killer who makes the subtle switch from killing for his country to killing for pleasure. Most of the other reviews for this film are completely unfair reactions to the acts of the killer in it and not the quality of the film itself.
★★★★★ · EXCELLENT · ichabod82 · 2014-01-23
What I love about this movie, and a few other gems like it, is that it has guts. The 70's are known for realism and Naked Massacre a perfect example. The sexual violence is relentless and you feel what the characters feel, both the stalker and the nurses. Not for the timid, this movie appeals to those of us who can appreciate raw suspense.
★★★ · Pretty fine, gritty psychological horror · tbragg · 2017-02-24
The "meaning" of the violence in Belfast isn't that mysterious: with insane violence being carried out on an international level, who will mind 8 murders? When they give a man a medal for killing, why cannot he go on killing? This was a timely piece in the Viet Nam era and, in spite of viewers who might find it unrealistic, pretty accurate about the Speck murders and what serial murderers do generally. It will certainly be unpalatable for some viewers because, like many movies of the 70s, there is no opportunity for heroism. But that's a 70s norm: see Dog Day Afternoon, Klute, Panic in Needle…
★ · Man, knife, harmonica · I_loved_this movie! · 2010-10-29
In the supposed warzone atmosphere of daily violence in 1970-era Belfast, not one of 8 trained nurses is capable of putting up any defense against a solitary, not very energetic, man with a single knife. How realistic is that?
waste of time · musicman696399 · 2025-06-22
do not watch, this is the most nonsense ever produced and called a movie, watch something else even a shitty horror movie have sex scenes or atleast has a way better plot.what the fuck was this even for
questionable motives... · filthfuneral · 2025-11-29
every time i thought i got a read on what the creators were aiming for, i was proven wrong. despite the true event edge (with critical deviations) this was made quite possibly just to portray torture and anguish, nothing extreme enough to be shocking yet no real subversions attempting to give this a point or any real meaning









