That scene is indeed crazy, but I will add that he's trying to stay "in character" as a guy who's completely obsessed with his sister. So that probably causes him to reject the nymphos initially and then of course things get out of hand.
Except that the shocked and panicky "nymphos!" reaction is not spoken aloud. We only hear Johnny's thoughts at that point, so he's not acting. That's his real reaction. I'm not sure it's meant to have anything to do with his cover story. I think that, hilariously, Fuller is asking us to accept that this is his normal reaction to being approached by a bunch of attractive women. Now, mind you, although they are good-looking, they are also clearly crazy, and he is far outnumbered. If he believes - which, again hilariously, Fuller seems to think the audience believes* - that "nymphos" are insane in a physically dangerous way, then I guess a certain amount of fear is in order. The attack itself, as others have said, is just crazy, illogical fun. What they hell are they doing to him? Biting? Sucking on his flesh? And yet, despite being crazed nymphomaniacs and despite Peter Breck being a handsome guy, they chastely avoid removing his trousers. ;-)
*I'm a little too young to remember the common attitude toward hypersexual women in 1963, but I'm pretty sure people didn't think they were violently insane. Disturbed, maybe; immoral, certainly; but physically dangerous? It just doesn't fit with the prevailing attitudes toward women and sex at the time. Obviously, Fuller was going purely for the lurid shock value, but you have to wonder if audiences even at the time didn't find it a bit OTT and funny, whether intentionally or otherwise.
Kind of the reverse of when he pushes the girlfriend away in the visiting room; he partly doesn't want her to blow his cover but he's also probably disappearing into his false personality. Though it was surprising to me that she doesn't realize in retrospect that she was endangering him.
Yeah, that was bizarre. Under their cover story, why would she be visiting him at all? Why would the psychiatrist allow it unless it was part of joint therapy sessions? Surely, given his supposed diagnosis, it would be the worst possible thing for Johnny to have unsupervised time with his "sister", especially since she displays every sign of reciprocating his "incestuous" lust.
I do agree that by that point Johnny is more than halfway to crazy as a loon.
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