The Wind

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Mystery writer Sian Anderson (Meg Foster) goes on vacation to Greece to get a little writing done in a secluded village. She immediately gets on the bad side of a handyman Phil (Wings Hauser) when she sees him burying a human body. From then on, Sian is on the run from the crazed mad man who wants to get rid of the witness. While The Wind has a great concept, it's not very involving or exciting in spite of some nice visuals and game performances by Foster and Hauser who seem to be giving it their all. The script feels rushed and a little on the bland side. There's a completely useless subplot involving an American couple who are on their honeymoon that kills too much time and a story thread involving Sian's boyfriend (David McCallum) ends up being a waste of time as well. There's an almost interesting idea that tells you that Sian might be making all of this up due to her overactive writer's imagination, but they don't hold on that long enough to make it very compelling. For viewers expecting gore, you'll be very unimpressed as The Wind keeps things in a very PG territory which gives the film a slight made for TV quality until Foster unleashes a few F-bombs and you're reminded that it's an R rated film. At best, The Wind is something to have on in the background.

I saw The Wind years ago and I recall really enjoying it. I found it again on Tubi and it's as good as I remember. It's a edgy thriller involving a writer and a caretaker who is a murderous psychopath who takes pleasure in stalking and taunting her while knocking off a few people in the meantime. It's set in a remote part of Greece and the writer, being American and not speaking Greek finds herself unable to call for help, she does get her boyfriend/partner John who is in the States to help her. Meg Foster, wings Hauser and David McCallum are all excellent as always and it's nice to see Robert Morley and Steve Railsback as well. It's a solid cast that does their jobs well, adding in a good music score and beautiful locations, it really does work. It is a nice little thriller from the eighties to enjoy.

"The Wind" or it's much better title which I viewed it under "The Edge Of Terror" is an OK movie, although I was lured by the DVD'S interesting artwork, which made this movie look like a body count, but it's not although there are some deaths, 3 in fact but they aren't anything special very bloodless and quite limp. The storyline is quite interesting where we get a novelist named Sian Anderson leaves her L.A. pad to travel to a remote Greek island to write her new book, unaware that her fellow neighbour and handyman is about to snap and begin a murder spree. Although this movie picks up a decent pace, it's just the so called wind wasn't as dramatic as it should have been, and despite the decent enough pace this movie still tends to drag in places like before the climax and although the chase scenes are pretty good it just wasn't tense enough for my taste and some of the moments that should have been shocking just wasn't horrific enough. Well there is a lot to like about this movie firstly the cast are interesting namely Meg Foster who plays the lead character, a very underrated actress who should be more well known and she does a great job here and carries the movie on her shoulders effortlessly and Robert Morley was quite fun as the pompus landlord and Wings Hauser as the maniac did okay, but not quite menacing enough though but he did pretty good. All in all "The Edge Of Terror" is pretty tame thriller with some decent moments but not enough to shine, and the pointless scenes that are just there to pad out the running time, like when the honeymoon couple show up stranded, they should have got murdered, now that would have been a great climax, so not a bad film by any means, just don't expect a full on slasher movie or you will be disappointed.

After making a notoriously bloody splash with his gruesome, goat-worrying 70s sleaze-fest 'Island of Death', the subsequent genre cinema of grisly-minded, Greek exploitation maverick, Nico Mastorakis quickly became no less essential than fellow horror iconoclasts, Fred 'Night of the Creeps' Dekker, Jeff 'Squirm' Lieberman and New York's finest B-Movie Basket Case, Frank Henenlotter, with the dynamic filmmaker, Mastorakis displaying the same bravura versatility as Italian terror icons, Sergio Martino & Antonio Margheriti. With the Giallo cycle all but played out at the tail end of the 1980s, it is certainly intriguing to witness the sharp, Giallo-centric notes abounding in 'Edge of Terror' aka 'The Wind' (1986) that pitches hard-boiled, quick-witted mystery writer Sian Anderson (Meg Foster) against the pyrotechnically psychotic caretaker, Phil (Wings Hauser), their terse, increasingly brutal, amyl nitrate-fuelled battle upon the majestic, eerily deserted, wind-lashed Historic Greek island of Monemvasia is NOT readily forgotten!!! With its sublimely strident electronic score, isolated, visually appealing location, gleeful Gialli tropes, and splenetic bursts of sanguineous violence, Mastoraki's bold and breezy bloodbath 'Edge of Terror' remains a triumphantly terrifying 80s home-invasion shocker that grips the viewer's attention no less tenaciously today than upon its initial release! While brief, it was a treat seeing future 'Jack Tillman:The Survivalist' Steve Railsback, and in its own coldly efficient fashion, Nico Mastoraki's infrequently acknowledged 'Edge of Terror' has not only kept its slashing edge razor keen, but this exceptionally thrilling, well-honed, Island-set slasher has clearly inspired many similarly conceived contemporary horror films such as 'You're Next' and 'Hush' etc. Somewhat facetiously, I initially thought that the film's curious title change from 'The Wind' to 'Edge of Terror' was prompted by the modestly amusing connotations to flatulence, and according to IMDB trivia, this was in fact the case!

Oh Dear Me !! What a flop !! A very mishy-mashy half-assed attempt at a kind of slasher movie with the wild-eyed Meg Foster. She, Robert Morley and David McCallum must have been in real need of money to agree to take roles in this dopey flick which should have lasted maximum a half hour ~ the rest is padding nonsense. And, come to think of it, David McCallum's part was not at all essential. You knew immediately the slasher character came on camera that he meant big-time trouble and that the woman should have got the hell out of there, damn fast!! NOT a good film. I give it 3/10 for Meg Foster's eyes and for the 6 minutes that entertained me "

Director Nico Mastorakis (Island of Death) returns to the horror genre and the Greek Isles with the suspenseful and intense The Wind. A slight mixture of the slasher, cat & mouse and giallo genres, The Wind looks great, thanks mostly to the imposing Greek locale high on the edge of a cliff. Mastorakis wastes no time jumping right into the action with writer Anderson (Meg Foster) encountering fellow American Phil (Hauser) within minutes of her arrival. When Foster explains she is a mystery writer, Hauser creepily quips, "If you need to know anything about death, I'm right next door." As the nights events progress, the viewer is kept wondering if all that has been happening is just figments of a writer's overactive imagination. As with most horror films, the success lies squarely on the shoulders of the villain and, thankfully, Mastorakis has Hauser to fill this role. Hauser gives a whacked out performance on the level of his killer pimp turn in the sleaze classic Vice Squad (1982). Whether it is huffing poppers or making threatening phone calls, Wings is in top form in this film. It is truly a shame that his talents aren't fully recognized by the mainstream. Foster provides a worthy adversary to Hauser's unhinged Phil, but there are a few moments that smack of falsity here (namely a few of her one liners). Railsback pops up about two-thirds of the way through as a sailor who helps the police investigate. It is almost a cameo-sized role, but he is good in it and helps spur the ideas that Foster may be making this up. If the film does have any faults, it is an entirely useless subplot involving a honeymooning American couple. While the point (they almost provide safe haven for Foster) was not lost on this viewer, it seemed a bit contrived and seems like an attempt to pad the film. Regardless, The Wind is still an intense and stylish 90 minutes that is definitely worth a watch.

Sian Anderson (Foster) is a mystery novelist who leaves her posh L.A. home to write her next thriller in Greece. She goes alone and leaves her husband John (McCallum) to do what he seems to love to do most: swim in the pool. Once in Greece, she avoids any metropolitan areas and heads straight to a remote, ancient, seaside village. She rents her villa from one Elias Appleby (Morley), an eccentric and verbose older gentleman. He warns her about the violent and tempestuous "Wind" that can attack at night. Nevertheless, she begins work on her book. When the strangely unbalanced Phil (Wings), a fellow American, now expatriate and living next door, comes calling, the nightmare begins...And how can Kesner (Railsback) be of service? For all answers to your questions, just listen to The Wind... There's a lot to like about The Wind. First off, the cast: Meg Foster is a hugely underrated actress and she does a great job here. She's the ideal focal point for a creepy tale like this and she anchors the film well. Robert Morley was also a good get for the cast and you have to love his "wacky landlord" role. Steve Railsback is pretty restrained this time around and seems a bit confused, but maybe that was his character. McCallum doesn't do all that much. Last but not least is the one and only Wings Hauser, who with his mustache (a rarity for him) and his strange, menacing affect, plays the ideal antagonist. But that's the HUMAN cast. The Wind is a character unto itself in this film. It's at least as scary as Phil, it gets angry, it comes and goes, and accentuates things. You have to expect a movie called The Wind will have plenty of actual wind, and there's no shortage of it. The seaside village has a character of its own as well, as does the house Sian is renting. If it's one thing Mastorakis delivers this time around, it's atmosphere. Take the Greek locations and quality cinematography, and enrich it with a Hans Zimmer score, and you mostly have a winner. Mostly because there are some flaws, naturally, as well: In his mad quest to make a giallo-type movie and try to outdo Dario Argento at his own game, most of the motivations for the characters are unclear. And while that also may be true for many giallos, it doesn't matter quite as much because the Italians pack in so much weirdness and visual verve, it doesn't matter. Technically this isn't a giallo, so it does still matter, and because of the lack of polish on the characters, the movie starts to drag right before the climax. Still, for an "Old Dark House" thriller-horror, with Meg Foster home alone and Wings brandishing a scythe (!), The Wind is worth seeing. Interestingly, director Mastorakis directed Wings again the following year after this in Nightmare At Noon (1988), and at one point in The Wind, Meg Foster uses the phrase "nightmare at noon". Something about these three words must intrigue Mastorakis. Released on the fan-favorite VHS label Lightning Video, The Wind is at the very least a one-time watch. For more action insanity, please visit: www.comeuppancereviews.com