Mosquito der Schänder

"Mosquito the Rapist" aka "Bloodlust" is a disturbing necrophilia-shocker about a deaf and dumb who suffers from a childhood-trauma and his hostile surroundings. After a while insanity takes control over his mind and he starts to break into a sanatorium and to rape dead bodies. As his secret love dies because of an accident the young guy becomes a sadistic murderer... I was seeking for trash, but what I found was a truly underrated gem of European horror cinema! Maybe the organ-score can be quite pesky after a while and the ending is too simple, but who really cares if the rest of the film is stunning at all?!? The most fascinating thing about "Mosquito" is probably his symbolic language like the childhood-trauma or the dream-sequences, which include some quite bizarre and surreal impressions to this film. German actor Werner Pocharth, who has got some really worse trash-movies in his filmography, is nearly excellent in the role of the sick and bloodsucking madman! So give this film a fair chance and don´t matter about some unconscious humor and little camp here and there! A truly good movie!!

The enigmatic, visually striking Austrian actor, Werner Pochath, makes for quite a jarring anti-hero in, Marijan Vajda's controversial, blood-suckingly bonkers 70s Euro-shocker, 'Bloodlust' aka 'Mosquito der Schänder' (1977), and his vividly macabre machinations as the maniacal, perversely plasma-purloining, deaf-mute necrophiliac,'Mosquito', queasily makes for a malevolent, memorably morbid, furtively death defiling, stomach-churningly strange persona you shall not soon forget!!!

Unmatched in its depravity!!! Dare you behold beautiful, macabrely morgue-laid females being so blasphemously violated by an ungodly fiend's twisted peccadilloes! Not once in the bloodthirstier annals of psychotronic Cinema have sinisterly supine sirens been exsanguinated with such despicable intent, as never before in living memory have all vestiges of humanity been suspended so disgracefully in order to luridly appease the degenerated delectations of depraved 70s horror gourmands! Vajda's infamously grim horror film was said to have provided the inspiration for bravura, boundary transgressing Teutonic troublemaker, Jörg Buttgereit's very own morbid masterpiece of grievous grave violation, 'Nekromantik'. It is quite fair to say that the rapaciously perverse appetites of Bloodlust's insanely introverted, doll fetishising, eerily eyeball extracting, corpse coveting creep has lost none of its darkly sensual, squirm-inducing appeal!

Abused clerk with a doll fetish tries to cope with memories of his abusive father develops a weird fascination for drinking the blood from corpses before amping it up toward murder.

Disturbing, but in many ways not very good little horror film that is more than likely going to curl your toes. As with many of these films its the acts that disturb but not the whole package, since our "hero" is too crazy and too much of a milk toast to amount to much. And give it points for a non sensational, realistic ending.

Worth a look only for horror fans.

6 out of 10

Pochtath is excellent in this incredible,spooky feature with similarities to the more famous MARTIN (made around the same time).The image of him sucking blood from a corpse with a glass straw is unforgettable.It doesn't matter that some of the FX look hokey and the english dubbed version has awkward dialogue,this is one of a kind and should be required viewing for all horror fans.Incidentally,Pochtath can also be spotted briefly in Dario Argento's THE CAT O' NINE TAILS.

"Mosquito the Rapist" is a gross,creepy and disturbing horror film that truly has to be seen to be believed.This strange necrophilia shocker offers few haunting moments and contains truly eerie mood throughout.Werner Pochath plays a nameless deaf mute accountant,who is still recovering from horrific child abuse.He has a weird fixation with blood spilling across his skin.One night he breaks into the local mortuary and ravages really pretty female corpse.Now addicted,he raids the tombs of the dead and drinks blood from their throats via a glass straw.This seriously twisted and perverse piece of sleazy horror was apparently a major influence on Jorg Buttgereit's "Nekromantik".There is some gore and plenty of sleaze,so fans of exploitation cinema won't be disappointed.Unfortunately this obscure gem is rather hard to find,but if you get a chance watch it.9 out of 10.