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"Mosquito" is one of the most original horror films from the seventies. Quite possibly the most disturbing romantic horror film you'll come across from this period.

Loosely based on a real case, this film deals with a traumatized young man (Werner Pochath), who in his childhood became deaf and dumb after having been beaten by his own father. Excluded from close human contact, he seeks company in the local graveyard. Still, he has secret feelings for the girl (Birgit Zamulo) next door, who also seems to live inside her own different world.

With gorgeous photography, an "out of this world" soundtrack by maestro Dafydd Llywelyn, and exceptional acting by Werner Pochath - this is a film to remember. Still, we need a better commercial release of it, than what's out on the market (the German DVD was OK, but could have been a lot better, and it's out of print anyway).

As others have mentioned this at once, obscure, perverse and rather slow. I'm not sure I'd go along with 'silly', but there are some moments more inept than others which, possibly just as well, help one treat this less than wholeheartedly seriously. On the other hand, such is the lead's obsession, to the extent that we cannot see why he even foes these things or what he gets out of them, we are drawn onto his side. There are no repercussions after his forays into graveyards and mortuaries, no evident police investigations and left with the awful night activities and the merciless teasing he gets in the office, we tend to see things from his point of view. The very 'nonsense' element regarding the bloodlust means that we are unable to detach ourselves as easily from the protagonist and his activities. Interesting and gory and certainly a very different take on obsession.

"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.

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!

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.