The “80s Italian production The Wild Beasts (1984) sees the water supply of a zoo contaminated
by PCP which drives the animals crazy and they eventually break out of the zoo
to cause panic and chaos in the city.
Written and directed by Franco Prosperi, an animal expert and police
inspector fight against time to save as many people as they can from all the
wild animals while also trying to recapture as many as they can in the process.
Being an Italian production there is plenty of violence and
death to be had in the film even where children are concerned. Although very basic and straight forward the
film is still entertaining (as most ‘80s Italian horror films) and even has
many great sequences with wild animals menacing humans (before CGI became the
norm).
The entire cast is pretty good (Lorraine De Selle, John
Aldrich, Ugo Bologna and Louisa Lloyd, to name a few) but what audiences want
to see are the wild animals and there are plenty of them here. What starts off as simply rats infesting the
city ends with a giant bear menacing everything in its path. Not the greatest of “80s Italian horror films
but it is entertaining.
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