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Wild Beasts - Belve Feroci
Wild Beasts
The Wild Beasts will Get You
Italy 1984
produced by Frederico Prosperi for Shumba International Corporation
directed by Franco Prosperi
starring Lorraine De Selle, John Aldrich, Ugo Bologna, Louisa Lloyd, John Stacy, Enzo Pezzu, Monica Nickel, Stefania Pinna, Simonetta Pinna, Alessandra Svampa, Frederico Volocia, 'Alessandro Freyberger, Tiziana Tannozzini, Gianfranco Principi
written by Frano Prosperi, music by Daniele Patucchi, special effects by Dino Galiano, special animal effects by Massimiliano Cerchi
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Rats attack and kill a couple making out in a car! A tiger in a zoo
kills its handler! Tragic events no doubt, but while they're the very
stuff tabloids are made of, they are no real reason for alarm yet ... but
when the elephants help the other animals escape the Frankfurt zoo, and
these animals all attack people - well, then there's something wrong,
right? And when the elephants are blocking the airport's runway with the
effect that a planecrash knocks out the city's power supply ... well,
fuck! Anyways, a scientist/animal handler/all-around hero (John Aldrich)
and his reporter girlfriend (Lorraine De Selle) are on the job, and the
hero finds out that the animals have gone wild because of PCP in the water
supply of the city - no idea how it got there of course, but the animals
go back to normal again. But then, when the girl reporter wants to pick up
her daughter (Louisa Lloyd), who has almost died in one of the animal
attacks, she has to find out many of the girls schoolmates have gone just
as insane and bloodthirsty as the animals ... A film that's
inspired only in some instances: wild jungle animals (like tigers,
cheetahs and elephants) attacking people in an urban setting, now that is
fun. The story that carries these instances is less inspired though, and
actually not at all thought through. On top of that, the characters all
resemble little more than carbon cutouts, walking through standard
situations that lack any real spark, and even the action sequences are
somewhat clumsily handled. That all said, compared to a Roland Emmerich
flick (who usually bases his films on very similar situations, albeit a
little more on the clumsy side) this film is still positively exciting -
but it's just not one of Franco Prosperi's better films, not one of the
better films of Italian sci-fi-horror of the era, or even a great example
of so-bad-it's-good cinema ...
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