I basically rented this one for two reasons: First, I had really enjoyed 'Autopsy' and was curious what other young German genre directers were doing in this vein; secondly, in reading the box credits, I saw that Elke Sommer was in the movie, albeit in a small role. As my personal choice of the hottest of the 60's screen sirens, I was curious as to what she was doing now. The answer to this question, at least if 'Flashback' is any indication, is 'walk-on rolls in domestic B Movies'! This is forgettable nonsense regarding a young woman who is hired on as a French Tutor at an country estate. The direct inspirations seem to be Henry James 'Turn of the Screw' and the American slasher flicks of the 1980's.  Just about every cliche of the slasher genre is brought in somewhere...the spoiled kids, the sexually-repressed girl, the strange caretaker (played by Sommer...who looks great for her age, I am happy to report!) , the hedonistic and sadistic 'cool' kids who you just know are not going to be with us to the end of the picture.  It's been done, and it's been done far better than 'Flashback'. One other comment, although I rarely mention things like this: the English Dubbing is AWFUL...not even close to synched to the lip movements, and you get the feeling that they were trying to make the movie more 'topical' to an American audience by changing parts of the script. The worst example of this is one of the cloddish local Maintainace Men who finds the first body is given a American Southern Redneck accent, even though his companion is decked out in liederhosen and Tyrolian hat!! For Slasher genre completists only...3 out of 10!

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