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Waste of time

Sadly Over-hyped

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Various dangerous animals in a zoo are whipped up into a psychotic rage after their drinking water gets contaminated with PCP. Serious problems ensue when said animals escape and embark on a homicidal rampage.Writer/director Franco Prosperi keeps the delightfully outrageous story zipping along at a snappy pace, stages the astounding animal attack set pieces with rip-snorting gusto, builds plenty of tension, delivers oodles of deliciously over-the-top gore, and astutely captures a delirious sense of escalating frenzy. Among the gloriously insane moments to be relished herein are a horny couple being attacked and eaten by rats (gratuitous babe boobs alert!), a cheetah chasing a speeding car down a street, an elephant crushing a woman's head, a tiger running rampant on a subway train, and a polar bear terrorizing a school full of obnoxious screaming kids. Guglielmo Mancori's glossy cinematography provides a neat polished look. Daniele Patucchi's funky-throbbing score hits the right-on groovy spot. Amazing lunacy.

Wild Beasts (1984)* 1/2 (out of 4)PCP gets mixed in with a water supply, which just happens to lead into the local zoo, which causes the animals to go crazy. After an elephant crashes through the wall all of the animals are on the loose and attacking humans.Films like THE FOOD OF THE GODS, FROGS and DAY OF THE ANIMALS were just a few of the "nature attack" films that were popular in America during the 1970s. These types of movies continued to be produced and of course Italy would jump on the bandwagon and the result is this rather bad film that manages to be incredibly boring as well as stupid. As someone who really enjoys these nature movies, this one here was a major disappointment.The biggest problem with this film is that the characters are just so stupid and so annoying that you really want to see them eaten by the animals. Rooting against your lead characters is never a good thing but even with the bad characters couldn't you enjoy the animal attacks? I wish you could but sadly the film is shot so dark that more times than not it's hard to see what's going on. Even worse is the fact that the animal attacks really weren't that believable and it was obvious the animals weren't really attacking.Another problem I had with the film is that even at just 91 minutes the film really dragged at times. The only reason to watch this is if you're a fan of actress Lorraine De Selle who most will remember from HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK and CANNIBAL FEROX. It's always fun seeing regular faces in these movies but even she can't save this turkey.

With a poll coming up on IMDbs Classic Film board for the best titles of 1984,I decided to take a look at a DVD sellers page,where I spotted a listing for what sounded like a bonkers Italian Horror movie,which led to me getting ready to go on a safari with the wild beats.The plot:Giving the animals their final food & water for the night,the zoo keepers lock the creatures up for the night.Unknown to the zoo keepers,the local water supply has been infected with PCP.As they look at the CCTV cameras,the keepers are horrified to see the animals start to act as if they have lost their minds. Attempting to calm the situation down,the animals end up breaking out of their cages,and running down the streets of Rome.As the keepers try to catch them all,the wild beasts cause havoc on the streets.View on the film:Inspired by an article co-writer/(along with Antonio Accolla) director Franco Prosperi read about a large supply of cocaine being hidden in the sewers of Italy,the screenplay by Prosperi & Accolla leaves anything like subtlety & depth behind,with the writers instead going for an all-out deranged smash and grab.Whilst the film does run out of steam during the "dialogue" scenes,the writers make sure that the insane gory set pieces come thick and fast,as the animal attacks go from a pack of rats ripping a young couple up, (how did Lucio Fulci not direct this?!) to a polar bear running down a school corridor,and a legendary cheetah chasing a car scene. Originally planning to film in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe),Prosperi had to change plans for Italy and South Africa,when terrorist groups starting shooting his hotel.Despite the filming troubles,Prosperi and cinematographer Guglielmo Mancori give the movie a vast scope,with the tower block giving the animals the perfect concrete jungle setting.Made on the cheap,Prosperi goes straight for the sleaze jugular,as the blood drenched animal attacks are matched by exposed female flesh and psychopathic children.Whilst some of the animal attacks do look hilariously poor,Prosperi shows a bit too much glee in the animal on animal attacks,with a scene of a fur ball being covered in rats being a really uncomfortable, grisly scene,as the beasts go wild.

Franco Prosperi's "The Wild Beasts" is a fairly routine Italian horror flick about nature gone nuts.The real animals were used in this movie and in many cases killed just for the sake of this Italian shocker.The animal attack scenes are very gory,but the photography by Franco Delli Colli is too murky.The use of animals in "The Wild Beasts" is quite stunning,unfortunately the acting is truly horrible.Still it's nice to see Lorraine De Selle of "Cannibal Ferox" and "House on the Edge of the Park" fame in the main role as a professor.There is also a really tense sequence where a cheetah chases a VW bug down the road and a scene where some rats are burned off a windshield in slow motion.So if you are a fan of Italian horror cinema give this one a look.7 out of 10.