Nobody has brought this up so I figured it should be mentioned at least once.
This is the movie Psycho with more subplots and less subtlety.
The plot is almost entirely the same except the roles are gender swapped. A philanderer embezzles money and runs away to a mysterious hotel run by a kindly but unstable patron who lives with their unseen and overbearing parent. That person is murdered and then their sibling investigates their disappearance.
It's the exact same story.
The only real difference here is an emphasis on a bunch of generic gangster backstories for the middlemen, and a complete lack of restraint in terms of gore and sex. To cover up the blatant theft there's a ton of generic gangster subplots thrown in and everything is supercharged to the point it becomes silly. We've got torture, incest, prostitution. None of it makes up for what amounts to a glossy but barely hidden remake.
The plot is almost entirely the same except the roles are gender swapped. A philanderer embezzles money and runs away to a mysterious hotel run by a kindly but unstable patron who lives with their unseen and overbearing parent. That person is murdered and then their sibling investigates their disappearance.
It's the exact same story.
The only real difference here is an emphasis on a bunch of generic gangster backstories for the middlemen, and a complete lack of restraint in terms of gore and sex. To cover up the blatant theft there's a ton of generic gangster subplots thrown in and everything is supercharged to the point it becomes silly. We've got torture, incest, prostitution. None of it makes up for what amounts to a glossy but barely hidden remake.