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!!

Poor old Mosquito (Werner Pochath) should sue for defamation of character: he might have a weird fetish for dolls, drink the blood of dead women through a glass straw, gouge out their eyeballs, hack off their heads, and eventually become a fully fledged psycho killer, but he's definitely not a rapist. Such malicious slander could seriously ruin a person's reputation!

An obscure horror offering from, of all places, Switzerland, director Marijan David Vajda's Mosquito the Rapist has garnered generally positive reviews here on IMDb for being a bold, surreal and lurid piece of sleaze that isn't afraid to push the boundaries of taste; while I cannot deny that the film is both groundbreaking and extremely exploitative, I just didn't enjoy it that much myself, finding it incredibly dreary for the most part despite all the nastiness. Even with a bit of gratuitous lesbian action from a couple of hookers thrown in for good measure, the slow as molasses pace throughout had me struggling to keep my eyes open (the only exception being the kiddie fiddling scene, which is a real eye-opener and genuinely unsettling—considering the tender age of the girl involved, I'm surprised this shocking moment has been allowed to remain intact!

"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.

This movie was very interesting and bizarre in the first half, but the second half was pretty boring and anticlimatic. The conclusion to this was not impressive at all. It is pretty unique and disturbing though. The acting was decent, the soundtrack was nice and overall this wasn't a bad movie. Mosquito the Rapist is very perverse and weird, and it has a few scenes of gore (not very brutal gore,though). I would recommend this to fans of exploitation cinema and to people who are looking for obscure and old horror films.