Crying Fields
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Crying Fields |
| Original title | Bloodeaters |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 (confiscated nationwide according to §131) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Charles McCrann |
| script | Charles McCrann |
| production | Charles McCrann |
| music | Ted Shapiro |
| camera | David Sperling |
| cut | Charles McCrann, David Sperling |
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Crying Fields , also Crying Fields - They became beasts of the apocalypse (Original: Bloodeaters , also Toxic Zombies ) is an American horror film directed by Charles McCrann from 1980.
action
The action takes place in an inaccessible, hilly forest landscape. Two experienced agents of the American Federal Police attack a secret hippie camping site in the operation "Torpedo" , which is inhabited by a group of young people growing marijuana . The civil servants are extremely unscrupulous, killing a defenseless beauty before being murdered by angry members of the community. The startled drug planters panic, but decide to linger for another week to catch up with a larger drug crop.
The authority responsible for this operation is deeply bitter in view of the lack of success in the fight against illegal drug cultivation and is therefore planning to use the as yet unapproved herbicide "Dromax" over the suspected cultivation area. According to Chief Agent Briggs, the white powder, which is considered dangerous, is to be secretly sprayed by plane . The criminals acting in secret are deliberately exposed to an increased health risk, while at the same time the responsible officer of the forest administration, Tom Cole, is forbidden to enter the region for a certain period of time. The astonished, unsuspecting Cole tries to contact Briggs without success. As a result, he disregards the bid - disguised as an official business trip - with his pretty wife Polly and his younger half-brother Jay to go on a cheerful fishing trip in the meanwhile contaminated area.
Meanwhile, some of the hippies as well as the pilot of the small plane are contaminated with the poisonous substance. After a short time, skin contact leads to a mysterious paleness of the skin and to a pathologically increased aggression. The infected show cannibalistic traits, henceforth attack each other with axes, knives and teeth and instinctively kill their friends as well as all holidaymakers / visitors to the forest who they can get hold of. Tom, Polly and Jay meanwhile have no inkling of this activity. They relax in the seemingly idyllic landscape when they accidentally find two distraught children, Amy and Jimmy, whose parents fell victim to the mindless beasts. A little later they are attacked by the beings. Jay is killed, the others flee from the scene first by car and later on foot. They find temporary refuge in a log cabin of a suspicious hermit, which is later overrun by the creatures.
On their escape, the four are finally picked up by the arriving agent Briggs and Philip's assistant, who plans to eliminate all eyewitnesses who could be dangerous to him. However, Cole does not want to surrender to his fate without a fight, and at the end of the film there are various scuffle in the course of which all hippies and both agents are killed. Unfortunately, Tom's wife, Polly, also dies. In the last scene of the film, Cole, who has since left the agency, plans to visit the two surviving siblings who have been living with their grandparents since that incident.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a “bloodthirsty horror spectacle” , which was composed “cynically and awkwardly from relevant motifs” .
Web links
- Toxic Zombies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Crying Fields in the online film database