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(movie) Wild beasts(1984)

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Gotta love Italian movies, especially their eighties horror movies. This time, Franco Prosperi´s Wild Beasts seemed like a right choice for a Thursday evening. The premise is fantastic: due to chemical spillage, all animals in I think that it is Munich go crazy and start rampaging around city, killing and destroying, only professor Berner, detective Braun and scientist Laura can think of a way to stop this madness.

What is fun about this movie is English dubbing, I love how they dubbed those Italian giallo and cattiva movies, with English being English, but somehow foreign and different than other movies. Also, this one was incredible fun to watch because all of the killings done by animals is so gory and at the same time funny and idiotic. From rats eating up young couple who make out in car, tigers eating zookeepers to epic and incredible cheetah chasing VW beetle car and not giving up until car explodes. Characters are so idiotic, from the looks to written text that you somehow start to think you watch a parody of an animal attack horror subgenre. I loved this horror subgenre since I was a kid, but somehow I rarely fall for such movie anymore. The ending of the movie is somehow surreal and kinda left me in thinking what went on and left space for sequel which never happened fortunately or not.

3/10(this mark is only that big because of funny killings)

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(movie) The Wind(1986)

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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

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(movie) Dracula has risen from the grave (1968)

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Being an avid horror movie maniac and also collector, I enjoy watching movies in general, but horror is my first and greatest love. My favorite horror subgenre are golden era slasher 80-ies horror, found footage and all those Hammer Horror classics. This is one of those old school legendary house´s British horror movies featuring Christopher Lee in his most legendary role and for me being best Dracula with tight choice between Bela Lugosi and Gary Oldman, who are my top three besides Lee.

This is fourth installment in Hammer´s Dracula series and it revolves around story of a priest Monsignor Ernst who returns to Castle Dracula to perform an exorcism which would expell evil forever although Dracula is dead and gone. As it often goes, Monsignor fails, awakes Dracula who is very angry because of the cross left barring the doors of his ancestral home. Dracula wants revenge and follows priest to the town with help of disgraced local drunkard priest. Simple? Perhaps naive and thrashy? No matter, Hammer movies had charm, charisma, story and they did not depend on cgi effects like today´s horror do. Chris Lee is just fantastic and charismatic, but besides just staring and being evil, he also talks quite a lot in this sequel apart from the ones prior and after. I enjoyed the atmosphere of Transylvania, of old school horror and blood spilled from the most legendary vampire of all. The ending is kind of poetic but leaves place for further sequels. The one thing that I did not enjoy is kind of main good character, young baker Paul, portrayed by Barry Andrews, who went on my nerves with his every facial expression and sentence he said. Maybe it is just me, who knows.

6,5/10