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!!

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.

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!

"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).