Giulio Pizzirani

Stefano, a young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano. The fresco painter was Legnani, and the fresco is his last work. Legnani apparently was mentally disturbed. He was used to paint people close to die or in agony. These facts together with the strange atmosphere that surround this village near Ferrara, in the north of Italy, contribute to put Stefano in a nightmare reality. Soon reality will change into horror. (imdb)

Grotesque 'Bordello' of Nightmares! (tagline)

A bizarre but heavy-handed giallo spoof which features a plethora of eccentric characters: inept detective, diminutive hero, a cross-eyed psycho and a dwarf (actually a man in drag!) for servants - plus a mad combo of relatives including a matriarch suffering from dementia, her cowboy of a second husband, her sex-crazed retarded son who has to be frequently restrained via electro-shock therapy, another son who's also a 'little man' (played by Bob Tonelli, one of the film's own financiers!), etc. (imdb Comment)

An amoral man manhandles his wife and falls into the claws of a wheeler dealer.