(movie) The Wind(1986)

Do you remember eighties direct to video star Wings Hauser? Well, I do. From golden age of my every day crusade to video stores, especially on Fridays and Saturdays, I used to rent all that sci fi vhs movies and also horror cheap, but charming direct to vhs flicks and Wings Hauser starred in quite a few. I somehow missed this one, so it was time for me to correct that error. Meg Foster stars in this one, as a mystery writer Sian Anderson, who travels to distant Greek abandoned village and rents a house there in order to write her new novel and find peace with inspiration through desolate hours and strong winds that rule there. But, she finds out that things are not so peaceful there since Phil(Wings Hauser) also lives in that decrepit village. One night Sian witnesses Phil killing the landlord Elias as he buries him. Phil goes psycho and dangerous cat and mouse game starts right away. The things I like about this movie is the atmosphere of madness and total desolation with that bloody wind sometimes being too irritating and howling around that village. Wings Hauser is fantastic and creepy as psycho Phil but I would love to have heard more about his background story, because the script gives us only glimpses why he is so crazy. Also, there are some discrepancies of stupid behaviour vs real life behaviour by Sian, her husband back in LA and few other characters that appear. The ending of the movie is very bizarre and different from what I used to and left me with a question hanging above my head, was it worth it? Well, yes and no!

5/10