Die Nacht der unheimlichen Bestien

Ein niedlicher B-Movie, in dem Hunde, die wie große Rattenmutanten aussehen, eine Gruppe von Menschen in einem Haus auf einer abgelegenen Insel bedrohen. Das Drehbuch ist durchschnittlich, das Budget niedrig und die Autoren sind unfähig. Der Film ist unwiderstehlich naiv – von den Horrorszenen bis zu den Beziehungen zwischen den Figuren. Ich bereue keine einzige Minute, die ich mit diesem guilty pleasure verbracht habe :-) (14.03.2009)

The most remarkable thing about this ultra-low-budget film is the fact that the producers were able to talk a then-popular country star, Miss Universe 1957, and the father of directing legend Sidney Lumet into it. The film's production design was really poor – the filmmakers made do with a single house surrounded by a high wooden fence somewhere in a not-so-lovely looking landscape and that's basically it. The visuals are lousy and unattractive, and the monsters themselves are the icing on the cake – killer "mutant rats", i.e. small greyhounds with long hair and sabre-like fangs. Every now and then they eat someone or break through a wall, and the only way to escape from them is in garbage cans. The way the attacks of the "monsters" are filmed (we put a stuffed animal's head in front of the camera, it somehow works) is really unintentionally funny and probably the only thing worth mentioning. (26.12.2012)