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"The full title of this 1976 Swiss curio is MOSQUITO DER SCHAENDER (MOSQUITO THE RAPIST), meaning it is NOT to be confused 1995's big bug bummer MOSQUITO. MOSQUITO THE RAPIST is a gross, creepy, disturbing yet disconcertingly (if not always intentionally) comedic look at the crimes of a real-life German serial killer. What distinguishes it from the serial killer movie glut of the eighties and nineties (HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, THE VANISHING, ANGST, CONFESSIONS OF A SERIAL KILLER, DR. LAMB, THE UNTOLD STORY, SOMBER, etc.) is its grim, obsessive tone and an unforgettable performance by Werner Pochath.

Kuno Hofman, the "Vampire of Nuremberg," was an ex-con who in 1971-2 roamed around Germany violating women's cadavers in various unspeakable ways, at one point injuring a morgue attendant during a break-in. His spree ended with the murder of a couple necking in a parked car, shortly after which he was arrested. This film follows the particulars of Hofman's gruesome crimes fairly closely, at least as far as I understand them, though of his background we get very little. This, of course, suggests that the project was intended as little more than blood and guts exploitation, which I can believe. I also understand it's mostly by accident that the resulting film rises above that level (although not very high).
The director Marijan David Vajda made his debut with MOSQUITO THE RAPIST, and would go on to become quite a prolific filmmaker in his native country, as well as an assistant on bigger productions like THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (1978) and BAD TIMING (1980). The lead actor Werner Pochath, on the other hand, was already an exploitation movie veteran by the time this movie was made, having appeared in Dario Argento's classic CAT O' NINE TAILS (1969), and would go on to play in the likes of MANDINGO MANHUNTER (1980) and the unforgettable (though for all the wrong reasons!) RAT MAN (1988).















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