Wild Beasts(1984)
Animals in a zoo go berserk and break out after being contaminated by drugs in the water supply. and go on the rampage in Germany killing everybody in their path.
Directed by Franco Prosperi who did those mondo movies, this is a pretty entertaining and exploitative watch, with some explicit gore and nudity. with killer elephants,lions and tigers, and even a polar bear terrorising a school.
some of the effects look a bit cheap, but the use of real animals in many of the scenes is pretty effective. although, it is obvious that actual animals did get harmed in this film, and some very nasty cruelty to rats that get burnt alive after they attack a couple of lovers in a car. rats always get a raw deal in Italian films
one memorable scene though involves a cheetah chasing a woman in her beetle car, and is quite well done. and an elephant stomping on a womans head.
and it was nice to see old favourite lorraine de Selle from cannibal Ferox again playing the part of a professor.
an okay watch, even if it does lose its way a bit. and something a bit different from the italians.
71 out of 100.