Wild Beasts - Belve feroci

Somehow PCP gets into the water supply that ends up driving the animals to attack people in this mid 80s eurotrash creature feature. Although the movie is never as fun as its concept promises. It still manages to be so utterly absurd especially when it concerns killer ballet dancer kids it's just fun and wild. What's really impressive is the real animals they used and I wonder how it all came together. The training must have been insane and I'm sure the film had some fatalities.

3.25/5

WILD BEASTS is the tender, joy-filled tale of what happens when PCP is introduced to the drinking water of zoo animals, driving them berserk. Cuddly critters make their escape, dining on unwary human snacks, after an elephant destroys the cage locking system.

From the infamous "rat attack" and "elephant car stomping" scenes, to the all-out shred-a-thon of the big cats' feeding frenzy, this movie makes other such films appear timid by comparison!

Unfortunately, as with many Italian gore films of the era, animal cruelty is included, sending several real animals to their premature, unnecessary doom. Still, in spite of all of its ludicrous elements, WB does manage to be entertaining throughout. Some of the more memorable scenes show a cheetah, a polar bear, cattle, etc., on the move down city streets or school hallways!

Stars exploitation movie regular, Lorraine De Selle as Laura.

Warning: Nothing can prepare you for the "shock" finale!...

Franco Prosperi's "The Wild Beasts" is a fairly routine Italian horror flick about nature gone nuts.The real animals were used in this movie and in many cases killed just for the sake of this Italian shocker.The animal attack scenes are very gory,but the photography by Franco Delli Colli is too murky.The use of animals in "The Wild Beasts" is quite stunning,unfortunately the acting is truly horrible.Still it's nice to see Lorraine De Selle of "Cannibal Ferox" and "House on the Edge of the Park" fame in the main role as a professor.There is also a really tense sequence where a cheetah chases a VW bug down the road and a scene where some rats are burned off a windshield in slow motion.So if you are a fan of Italian horror cinema give this one a look.7 out of 10.

This is only okay but it has a very good start and if it had only gone a little bit further could have ad a sensational finish. The rats (mice?) and the lovemaking couple in the car is really well done to get things off to a scary, horrible and ultimately very gory beginning but although there is some fun to be had with elephants breaking out of the zoo and a cheetah chases a car down a high street (Frankfurt?) ir is not too horrific. Elephant foot on the face is not too pretty, I must say, though. Most interesting thing here is that the director is he of the Mondo Cane films and aside from the documentary style, Uncle Tom is his first dramatic feature. There is also quite an Umberto Lenzi feel here both with those constant zoomed close-ups of gory detail and the presence of Lorraine De Salle who also stared in cannibal Ferox and Ugo Bologna, here the police chief but also featured in Nightmare City. Interesting rather than gripping film and I can only imagine that to end when the children have begun to appear so menacing might have been in hope of a follow-up.

Franco Prosperi must really get off on killing animals, between this and all the shockumentaries he's done. This one's got some great sequences (shot in Frankfurt-am-Main) but never lives up to its great premise. Filmed entirely at night, the direction is clumsy and only rarely suspenseful. It's never boring or predictable but not terribly exciting or original, either. Though if you've waited all your life to see a naked woman get eaten by rats, here's your chance.