Wild dogs
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Wild dogs |
| Original title | Cani Arrabbiati |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mario Bava |
| script |
Cesare Frugoni Alessandro Parenzo |
| production |
David E. Allen Harmon Kaslow (restored version) Lamberto Bava Alfred Leone Roberto Loyola |
| music | Stelvio Cipriani |
| camera | Emilio Varriano |
| cut | Carlo Reali |
| occupation | |
| |
Wild Dogs (original title: Cani Arrabbiati ) is an Italian thriller directed by Mario Bava . Filming was completed in 1974, but due to financial and legal difficulties, the film was not released until 1997.
action
Four gangsters brutally attack a wage money transport of a pharmaceutical company. One of the criminals was shot while trying to escape and the getaway car was damaged. In a panic, the other three take two women hostage in a parking garage. After one of the three stabbed a woman, they managed to escape from the police. They attack Riccardo's car, but he has a sick sleeping child with him. "Doctor", the leader of the gang, forces the driver to flee the city with them. He and Maria, the hostage, sit in front of the driver, while the psychopathic members of the gang "thirty-two" (the nickname is derived from the size of his penis) and "Bisturi" ( Italian : "the scalpel ") sit behind. Thanks to Riccardo, they escape from the Carabinieri and the group drives to a secret destination.
Maria tries to flee during a pee break, but is stopped at an old farm by "Thirty-two" and "Bisturi". The two force the woman to urinate in front of their eyes and then to dispose of the wet panties. Back in the car, the two begin to torture the woman. Riccardo keeps asking the "doctor" for mediation. At a rest stop, “Thirty-two” finally gets a bottle of whiskey. Drunk he tries to rape the woman. As the group drives through a tunnel, the "doctor" shoots him and injures him very badly. Shortly afterwards, they have to refuel and take an extroverted woman with them who cannot even recognize the situation and chatters away. When she discovers the dying man in the back seat, "Bisturi" kills her with a knife. The travelers dispose of them on a slope. “Bisturi” finally gives his former best friend “Thirty-Two” the coup de grace.
When the group arrives at their destination, the two gangsters want to get rid of the hostages. Riccardo, however, pulls a pistol from the child's blanket and can shoot the "doctor" and "bisturi". However, "Bisturi" can still shoot Maria with the last of his strength. Riccardo phoned the child's mother a little later and extorted three billion lire from her .
background
Bava finished filming Wild Dogs in 1974. Shortly thereafter, the production company filed for bankruptcy and the almost finished film was confiscated along with the producer's other possessions. After Lamberto Bava tried unsuccessfully to buy back the rights to his father's film for years, the German-Italian label Lucertola only managed to secure the film in 1996 . The leading actress and co-producer Lea Lander reconstructed the film from the raw material that had not been edited and the already completed music by Stelvio Cipriani.
In 2002 another version was released under the name Kidnapped! . Lamberto Bava and his son Roy Bava shot a few scenes and Stelvio Cipriani added a new soundtrack to the film. This version has so far only been published in English-speaking countries.
There are several editions of the film in German-speaking countries. The version released by Astro in 2001 and the DVD version of the film, which was later used by Marketing and Laser Paradise, have been revised again in terms of color saturation and tone compared to the Italian DVD version Rabid Dogs from 1998.
The film was presented to the FSK again in March 2016 and was approved in full for people aged 16 and over.
reception
Wild Dogs were long thought to be lost. Its new publication was barely noticed by the trade press, the reception took place mainly through genre magazines. Mario Bava fansite Ars Incubi refers to the film as
“An uncomfortable film experience that, in its realistic intensity, seems more depressing than any conventional horror film ever could. One or two viewers who are only fixated on the stylized Gothic works of Bava will probably leave this film a little perplexed and confused. But with its stylistic minimalism and thanks to the credible characterizations and a really good cast, Cani arrabbiati can be counted among the most important Italian genre reproductions of the 1970s. "
Web links
- Wild Dogs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Thomas Wagner: Cani arrabiati. Ars Incubi. The Mario Bava Archives, accessed December 14, 2009 .
- ↑ Rabid Dogs Comparison (Lucertola Media vs. Astro Records and Filmworks). 10kbullets.com, accessed December 14, 2009 .