While searching for a missing young woman named Laura, the shot detective Singapore Sling arrives at a remote villa somewhere in the middle of nowhere. The daughter of the house opens the door for him and he breaks down. The viewer already knows who he has fallen into the hands of: a perverted mother-daughter team who slaughter like mad and have a garden full of graves. When they are not murdering anyone, they indulge in sadomasochistic excesses together. Sling soon realizes that his search will probably come to an end here ...
Cinephiles will immediately recognize the basic narrative structure: Otto Preminger's Laura (1944) - except that the detective thought the lady was dead and is therefore all the more surprised when she appears to him in the flesh. With Nikos Nikolaidis (1939-2007), on the other hand, you never know whether the living aren't actually already dead: From his feature-length debut Evridiki BA 2037 (1975) to his last work, The ZeroYears (2005), his existentialist genre pastiches seem populated by the manically dreaming undead. Singapore Sling is his most excessive and fascinating work: the art-camp aesthetic has an enraptured old-porn charm, the plot a considerable splatter film poetry. A genuinely disturbing féerie.
