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Mosquito the Rapist (1977) N
Deaf and mute man lives alone with his dolls and secretly loves a girl who lives in the same apartment building. He also defiles corpses in local mortuaries and drinks their blood.
This oddly named (or translated at least - while rapist is also technically correct I'd much prefer something like defiler due to the fact that there's no raping in this film) Swiss eurotrash is quite interesting. I haven't seen Romero's Martin but I'm still reminded of it (both are apparently done about the same time so no copying either way), I'm getting some heavy Buttgereit vibes (though this is actually much better quality than NekRomantik) and even some similarities to Maniac.
Story and character development are a bit shaky but perhaps the film is just trying to reflect the obsessions of the protagonist (it seems to work that way but maybe I just want to see something that isn't there). There's not much happening all the time but it never starts to drag too bad. Acting is rather fine (especially Pochath who genuinely feels disturbed) and technically it's better than I expected.
There's not much violence per se but the corpse defiling scenes are definitely sleazy and watching the man suck blood from corpses through glass straw is really something. It's bleak and quite heavy film and something that probably couldn't be done today. It barely misses being good but well worth a watch if you're feeling sleazy.
Deaf and mute man lives alone with his dolls and secretly loves a girl who lives in the same apartment building. He also defiles corpses in local mortuaries and drinks their blood.
This oddly named (or translated at least - while rapist is also technically correct I'd much prefer something like defiler due to the fact that there's no raping in this film) Swiss eurotrash is quite interesting. I haven't seen Romero's Martin but I'm still reminded of it (both are apparently done about the same time so no copying either way), I'm getting some heavy Buttgereit vibes (though this is actually much better quality than NekRomantik) and even some similarities to Maniac.
Story and character development are a bit shaky but perhaps the film is just trying to reflect the obsessions of the protagonist (it seems to work that way but maybe I just want to see something that isn't there). There's not much happening all the time but it never starts to drag too bad. Acting is rather fine (especially Pochath who genuinely feels disturbed) and technically it's better than I expected.
There's not much violence per se but the corpse defiling scenes are definitely sleazy and watching the man suck blood from corpses through glass straw is really something. It's bleak and quite heavy film and something that probably couldn't be done today. It barely misses being good but well worth a watch if you're feeling sleazy.