Wild beasts 1984 bad movie night for the lovers of b. A naturerunsamok film from 1984, directed by franco e. Sure, its just a normal killer animalmovie but it almost completely lacks a buildup, characters or any kind of engaging story its just a lot of spectacular scenes of different animals attacking and killing people. Were talking along came a spider, kiss the girls, the alex cross series, etc. Wild beasts 1984 by baron craze august 31, 2019 baroncraze. A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal fleshdissolving acid, to a south american coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones. Wild beasts is the very definition of an exploitation movie. After an elephant crashes through the wall all of the animals are on the loose and attacking humans. While movie theaters around the globe were filled with 70s epics depicting nature gone rampant in films as diverse as the food of the gods and day of the animals, it wasnt until the following decade that italians got the final word on the subject with the most elaborate and daffiest entry in the series. Wild beasts 1984 finally out on swedish dvd, franco prosperis wild beasts is an odd duck in every way. Savage beasts, or as everyone else calls it wild beasts, is a very difficult movie for a few different reasons after mentioning the blind vs. The film sees php inadvertently being released into the water supply for the local zoo and the crazed animals wreaking havoc on the city. It basically is just animals killing people and vice versa, but theres no building up tension or atmosphere at all. Wild beasts 1984 makes other creature features like grizzly or day of the animals appear absolutely timid.
Unbegrenzter zugang finden sie wonach sie suchen keine werbung alle plattformen kostenlos konto registrieren. Outside of these aspects, the film is a fun if dumb as shit horror effort. It is a remake of the 1984 film of the same name and is also based on the 2011 ohio exotic animal release. A professor opens a crypt and reanimates rotten zombies. Wild beasts belve feroci savage beasts 1984 rotten. Wild beasts 1984 12 out of 4 pcp gets mixed in with a water supply, which just happens to lead into the local zoo, which causes the animals to go crazy. Theres also plenty to detest about the film such as live rats being set on fire, a cat being eaten by rats, and various live animals being attacked by hyenas and assorted big cats. The wild beasts 1984 the 80s italian production the wild beasts 1984 sees the water supply of a zoo contaminated by pcp which drives the animals crazy and they eventually break out of the zoo to cause panic and chaos in the city.
Movies of the damned wild beasts 1984 daily grindhouse. One recurring aspect of the genre was animal deaths and cruelty, and prosperi continued this theme when he directed wild beasts, a 1984 horror set in an unnamed european city actually frankfurt in germany. Wild beasts, the final film from franco prosperi best known as onehalf of the team. The most fun youll have whilst enduring this film is guessing which city the events take place in.
The cinematography is a bit murky, but the gore is first rate and absurd, with the most memorable kill involving a womans head being stomped by an elephant. As with most italian horror movies, they are at times offensive, absurd, corny, sexy and bloody. Dangerous zoo animals escape from their cages and run amok in the city after drinking water contaminated by pcp a hallucinogenic drug also known as angel dust, busy bee, peace powder, zombie dust and jet fuel. Prosperi decides early on, to hell with good taste and common sense, and gives us a messed up horror film to cherish. Wild beasts is one of a scant few euro horror films from the mid 80s that showed a lot of promise for italian genre movies. Theres carnage and havoc and the kill scenes are exactly what you want from a movie about escaped zoo animals, which is to say that theres a stampede. He has written over 100 books and has sold over 300 million copies, mostly to dads. The bands second album two dancers was released in august 2009 and was widely acclaimed. Its a movie about zoo animals getting exposed to pcp through the city water supply and going on a murderous rampage. Animals at a zoo turn into vicious killers after drinking contaminated water. Ruggero deodatos crew also killed real animals during the production of cannibal holocaust, but at least that film grew out to become a genre milestone, whereas wild beasts is obscure, hard to find and honestly not worth tracking down. If you want to turn your brain off for an hour and a half, check this film out. With a very limited release in 1984, wild beasts was never shown in the u. The water supply for a large city zoo becomes contaminated with pcp, and the animals go crazy and get loose.
Wild beasts debut album limbo, panto, described as shocking, funny, and above all irrevocable, was released on 16 june 2008, with the devils crayon single following on 30 june. Call me crazy, but if the measure of a good film is that it does everything it sets out to do, and does it well, then wild beasts is a five star affair. Franco prosperi returns to his docuexploitation mondo film roots with the most ludicrous, most polished, most italian of all animal attack films, wild beasts. Wild beasts, is a very difficult movie for a few different reasons. Savage beasts, wild beasts belve feroci, the wild beasts will get you. Wild beasts is a fucking godsend bryan enright, the horror syndicate. There are some hilariously awkward scenes to enjoy, but im not entirely sure they were meant to be comical, like when the cheetah attacks a woman driving a beetle. Its impressive that prosperi managed to coordinate and film such a menageriepolar bears arent exactly the most cooperative bunch.
Seemingly made for no other reason than to entertain and thrill, this is a gobsmackingly whacky, irresponsibly made animal attack film that impresses even when its driving you into fits of. Wild beasts is quite a bad film, with no tension or coherence. But prosperi would break out from his shockumentary world and make his own feature fright film in 1984 with wild beasts, a riotous horror movie that features animals rising up against their human. Wild beasts remake idea wiki fandom powered by wikia. He also occasionally directed comedies with lando buzzanca or alighiero noschese and, in the final stage of his career, at the beginning of the. Prosperi on allmovie this is a combination message movie and horror. Prosperis last directed film not only addresses what happens when a recreational drug inexplicably finds itself in a zoos drinking. Unfortunately, as w many italian gore films of the era, animal cruelty seems to have been a prerequisite, sending several real animals to their premature, unnecessary. Wild beasts is an americanbritish epic thriller film directed by steven spielberg and produced by adrian hodges and tim haines. Wild beasts 1984 leave it to the italians to take a popular trend in american cinema.