Mosquito der Schänder
Tags: violence, murder

Plot synopsis:
NOTE: Based on the true life story of Kuno Hoffman, "the vampire of Nuremberg."Mosquito [Werner Pochath] is deaf and dumb, thanks to a "loving" father who beat him senseless when a child. Now an adult, Mosquito works as a bookkeeper, keeps to himself, and lives alone in an apartment with black walls and his collection of dolls. Often the butt of derision from his co-workers and neighbors, he takes pleasure only in watching a young neighbor woman [Birgit Zamulo] who likes to dance under the clouds and seems to be a bit "touched". Oh, and he also likes to smash his dolls and lick catsup off his hands.One day, when smashing dolls and licking up catsup doesn't seem to satisfy him anymore, Mosquito breaks into a mortuary where he stabs the corpse of a young woman and licks her blood off his hands, whereafter he writes "Mosquito" on the wall. This appears to satisfy whatever is driving him, as he continues the practice of locating dead girls from the obituaries, stabbing them in the chest, and drinking their blood, eventually using a double-pronged straw to suck it directly instead of licking it off his hands. Occasionally he goes a bit further, like cutting off a woman's head and, in one case, plucking out a woman's eyeballs and taking them home where he keeps them in a jar. After several such mutilations, Mosquito's exploits have made it into the newspaper and all
of Nuremberg is talking about the "vampire".When Dancer, in one of her dancing sessions, falls off the roof and is killed, Hoffman can find no solace. After attending Dancer's funeral service, he stays in the cemetery in order to remove her body from the coffin for a final kiss and a last dance. When that doesn't help, he visits a mortuary where he sucks the blood from the chests of two women. When that doesn't work, he visits a whorehouse to watch two whores having sex. Even that doesn't work so, on his way home on his motor scooter, he follows a young couple as they drive out to the country. As they are making love in their car, Hoffman kills them and drinks their blood. Only then does he smile.
Unfortunately, he leaves behind his straw and passport and is finally apprehended by the police. [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.]

Review: Superficially, "Mosquito The Rapist" appears to be another load of sick-spirited & extreme 70's trash, but if you make the effort to observe the film closer, you'll discover that it's actually an intense and tragic drama rather than just euro-smut.
Werner Pochath portrays an anonymous deaf-mute man in his early twenties, working as an accountant and living in a ramshackle studio that he decorated with uncanny dolls.
He keeps his perverted "desires" under control by regularly breaking into morgues and mutilating girls' corpses as well as slurping their blood through a homemade glass straw.
When his secret love-interest (a hippie-girl that lives in his building) tragically dies, the mutilations become far more sadistic and he eventually turns to brutal murder.
It's probably the only film I've seen in my whole life where I felt compassionate for a depraved pervert.
"Mosquito The Rapist" is also a shockingly well-made and even stylish film!
"Mosquito the Rapist" is a gross,creepy and disturbing horror film that truly has to be seen to be believed.This strange necrophilia shocker offers few haunting moments and contains truly eerie mood throughout.Werner Pochath plays a nameless deaf mute accountant,who is still recovering from horrific child abuse.He has a weird fixation with blood spilling across his skin.One night he breaks into the local mortuary and ravages really pretty female corpse.Now addicted,he raids the tombs of the dead and drinks blood from their throats via a glass straw.This seriously twisted and perverse piece of sleazy horror was apparently a major influence on Jorg Buttgereit's "Nekromantik".There is some gore and plenty of sleaze,so fans of exploitation cinema won't be disappointed.Unfortunately this obscure gem is rather hard to find,but if you get a chance watch it.9 out of 10..
"Mosquito the Rapist" aka "Bloodlust" is a disturbing necrophilia-shocker about a deaf and dumb who suffers from a childhood-trauma and his hostile surroundings.
After a while insanity takes control over his mind and he starts to break into a sanatorium and to rape dead bodies.
The most fascinating thing about "Mosquito" is probably his symbolic language like the childhood-trauma or the dream-sequences, which include some quite bizarre and surreal impressions to this film.
German actor Werner Pocharth, who has got some really worse trash-movies in his filmography, is nearly excellent in the role of the sick and bloodsucking madman!
"Mosquito" is one of the most original horror films from the seventies.
Quite possibly the most disturbing romantic horror film you'll come across from this period.Loosely based on a real case, this film deals with a traumatized young man (Werner Pochath), who in his childhood became deaf and dumb after having been beaten by his own father.
Still, he has secret feelings for the girl (Birgit Zamulo) next door, who also seems to live inside her own different world.With gorgeous photography, an "out of this world" soundtrack by maestro Dafydd Llywelyn, and exceptional acting by Werner Pochath - this is a film to remember.
Pochtath is excellent in this incredible,spooky feature with similarities to the more famous MARTIN (made around the same time).The image of him sucking blood from a corpse with a glass straw is unforgettable.It doesn't matter that some of the FX look hokey and the english dubbed version has awkward dialogue,this is one of a kind and should be required viewing for all horror fans.Incidentally,Pochtath can also be spotted briefly in Dario Argento's THE CAT O' NINE TAILS..
Poor old Mosquito (Werner Pochath) should sue for defamation of character: he might have a weird fetish for dolls, drink the blood of dead women through a glass straw, gouge out their eyeballs, hack off their heads, and eventually become a fully fledged psycho killer, but he's definitely not a rapist.
Such malicious slander could seriously ruin a person's reputation!An obscure horror offering from, of all places, Switzerland, director Marijan David Vajda's Mosquito the Rapist has garnered generally positive reviews here on IMDb for being a bold, surreal and lurid piece of sleaze that isn't afraid to push the boundaries of taste; while I cannot deny that the film is both groundbreaking and extremely exploitative, I just didn't enjoy it that much myself, finding it incredibly dreary for the most part despite all the nastiness.
Even with a bit of gratuitous lesbian action from a couple of hookers thrown in for good measure, the slow as molasses pace throughout had me struggling to keep my eyes open (the only exception being the kiddie fiddling scene, which is a real eye-opener and genuinely unsettling—considering the tender age of the girl involved, I'm surprised this shocking moment has been allowed to remain intact!.
Abused clerk with a doll fetish tries to cope with memories of his abusive father develops a weird fascination for drinking the blood from corpses before amping it up toward murder.Disturbing, but in many ways not very good little horror film that is more than likely going to curl your toes.
As with many of these films its the acts that disturb but not the whole package, since our "hero" is too crazy and too much of a milk toast to amount to much.
Mosquito the Rapist is very perverse and weird, and it has a few scenes of gore (not very brutal gore,though).
I would recommend this to fans of exploitation cinema and to people who are looking for obscure and old horror films..
A funny thing happened to me while watching "Mosquito": on the one hand, the hero is a deaf-mute and the director is totally unable to make us understand why he does what he does (mutilating mannequins...er, excuse me, corpses) through his images.
This film is stupid (funny how this guy has access to every graveyard and mortuary in his town) and lurid (where would we be in a 70s exploitationer without our gratuitous lesbian scene?).
Don't be fooled people - MOSQUITO THE RAPIST is not nearly as twisted as some reviews would have you believe.
To be honest, I think the name alone is misleading, as I don't recall a single actual rape in the whole film...but still - there is something "compelling" about this film...The story centers around a deaf/mute man who was severely beaten by his father (which caused his condition) and then watched as his young sister was molested by Pops (in a scene that although was not TOO over-the-top...the graphic "old man's hands on young girl's nekkid butt-cheeks kinda bothered me...).
For some inexplicable reason, he finds himself drawn to corpses that he finds at various morgues/funeral homes and plays out different scenarios with them, ranging from stabbing, to head-cutting-offing, to what becomes his personal "favorite" - stabbing them with a pronged tube-like device and drinking their blood.
Everything goes down-hill when he starts getting more and more bold and starts leaving evidence behind...Honestly - MOSQUITO THE RAPIST is a fundamentally flawed film.
First off - unless embalming techniques have come a LONG way in Switzerland over the last 30 years, sucking "fresh" blood from a corpse isn't possible.
And again, unless I somehow got a really chopped version (which I doubt) - the MOSQUITO THE RAPIST title is extremely misleading, as there was no corpse-humping to be found - another BIG disappointment.
The film also suffers from several dull and unnecessary scenes of Mosquito cruising around town on his little scooter/moped that became boring to the point of distraction (think LUCKER THE NECROPHAGUS and the aimless "walking" scenes and you'll get the picture).
The ending is also quite abrupt and leaves nothing really resolved, as though the director had no idea how to adequately end the film and just gave-up.Now to the good points - Werner Pochath as "Mosquito" was extremely well-cast and believable.
There's also a weird 70's "charm" about the film that's undeniable.Obviously MOSQUITO THE RAPIST had a big influence for later necro-themed films such as NEKROMANTIK - but unfortunately, it felt as though the concept was too "ahead of it's time" to be pulled off effectively in this film.
As I've been trying to see this film for about a year now, and have heard very good things about it - I was disappointed at the relative lack of "graphic" material depicted.
A deaf mute guy remembers his youth, in a flashback we see him getting punished by his drunken father, but suddenly his teeny sister comes in, she begs her father to stop, but he turn his hands on her, pulling down her underwear and start touching her between her legs.
The guy likes to have some blood on his body so he starts to find some, where else than at a mortuary.
He starts to suck the blood out of corpses and so we are in the domain of necrophilia, way before Nekromantik.
I was on an IMDb quest for Bloodlust, a film from 1961, (horrible movie, btw, don't bother), and came upon this listing in my search.
Reading about THIS Bloodlust movie made me curious, so I tracked it down on YouTube.This is a Swiss horror film from 1977 with the original title Mosquito der Schänder (Mosquito The Rapist).
I can understand the name change because our lead never actually has sex in this film, although others do.
In fact, the lead in this film portrays a deaf mute, and there is little dialog in the film anyway, as it mostly centers on him, and his violent interaction with dead women.
And the great thing about dead people is they have nothing to say.This is a truly creepy film in many ways, but suffers a bit from a low budget.
I'm not sure you'd want your kids watching the scenes where he's sucking the blood of dead women with a dual-pronged pipette either.Definitely worth a watch for adult horror fans.
This film is sometimes referred to as Mosquito The Rapist.
The back of the currently available DVD version(also in Spanish, hurray!) takes you back to the time before the Nasties, as the producers decided to show, on the back of the DVD case, two nude women enjoying a box lunch while Mosquito watches, with smaller photos of blood drinking, disembodied eyeballs, and a decapitation.
The plot revolves around a deaf/mute man who works as a clerk in some nondescript office and lives in a small apartment, and how he is the subject of intense ridicule at both locations.
His life, often revealed through flashbacks, shows a poor creature who was so severely beaten by his father that Mosquito became deaf and dumb.
His childhood haunts him, his co-workers and neighbors think he's a freak, so, naturally, he simply becomes one.He's been collecting dolls for some time and has a small collection in his apartment.
This dates back to memories of his sister's doll being smashed by their father after the previously mentioned pseudo-incest scene.
Mosquito has no friends, but he does have a slight infatuation with a neighbor girl, a free spirit who seems to love nothing more than to dance the day away whenever you see her.
So, after a time, Mosquito does what we all will probably do someday....he breaks into a funeral home and starts stealing body parts!
Anyway, if the bodies were embalmed, we wouldn't have a film.
Then decapitation and general stabbing of corpses takes place.Now, don't think Mosquito himself doesn't realize he's a freak.
Purchasing some strange sharp glass tubes that look like straws, he begins plunging the instrument into necks and breasts alike to enjoy a cherry Slurpee.The best aspects of this film are that, even though it's low budget and horribly dubbed, you can really sense Mosquito's descent into madness, how he really is controlled by his bloodlust, having no will of his own.
Recommend for fans of the sicko film, but be prepared for the slow burn..
Known by several other titles (Mosquito der Schänder, Bloodlust: The Black Forest Vampire, Bloodlust: The Vampire of Nuremberg, Mosquito and Mosquito the Rapist), this is a dark and disturbing 1970's Eurohorror based on the macabre true story of Kuno Hofmann, the "Vampire of Nuremberg."Mondo Macabro describes this one as a "grown up fairy tale, albeit one that includes bloodsucking, eyeball evisceration and voyeuristic lesbian sex scenes among a host of other activities." That pretty much covers it!Director Marijan Vajda mainly worked in documentaries, which is a way of seeing this film.
No one is named, but The Man (Werner Pochath, who was in both Ratman and Thunder 3, so he's on the Sam movie spectrum) is a deaf and mute accountant who has been abused his entire life, from a father that beat him and raped his sister in front of him to his fellow schoolmates attacking him and now, his co-workers and neighbors with treat him with scorn.
Maybe it's because he plays with dolls.The only light in his life is The Girl (Birgit Zamulo), who dresses up all day and dances, and may be potentially just as damaged as our hero.
Soon, only the dead provide him with comfort, as he starts slicing up bodies, decapitating them, stealing their eyes and even using a glass straw to drink their blood.
He starts leaving a graffiti tag behind, the words M.Q. or Mosquito, and the press panics the city with news of a modern day vampire.The living are still safe until The Girl falls from the roof, in an act that we're left.
Losing the only person he really loves sends The Man over the edge and into a spiral of violence after he fails to bring her back to life by feeding her his blood.This bit of Swiss weirdness isn't everyone's cup of tea.
It also starts with a great square up real that attempts to paint this movie as an educational experience when all it really wants to do is get you to watch the creeptastic carnage on display.I'd never heard of this before and was pleasantly surprised that it's such a sensitive -- well, as sensitive as a vampire movie with plenty of gore can be -- and well-acted film..
This German horror film has to be one of the weirdest I have seen.I was not aware of any connection between child abuse and vampirism, but this is supposed based upon a true character.Our hero is deaf and mute as a result of repeated beatings at the hands of his father.
His co-workers find out and tease him terribly.During the day a mild-manner accountant, and at night he breaks into cemeteries and funeral homes and drinks the blood of dead girls.
He graduates eventually to actually killing, and that is what gets him caught.Like I said, a very strange movie that is dark and very slow as Werner Pochath never talks and just spends his time drinking blood..
The slow, slow, slow paced story concerns a young man with a rather morbid obsession – he's infatuated with corpses, and his obsession eventually leads him to suck their blood through a glass straw.
Some might say that this is a character study of somebody suffering from extreme perversion, but the film doesn't really have much to say about the protagonist's condition, and instead the director is happy to dwell on one scene of unpleasantness after another.For a low budget German splatter film of the '70s, the production values are surprisingly high and the camera work is good.
It's a shame that the script is almost non-existent and the pacing is so slow; on top of this, the film is largely repetitive, with a scene of bloodsucking followed by other morbid moments, ad infinitum.
Thankfully the cheap special effects lessen the revolting nature of Mosquito's crimes somewhat, although all of the gore effects – from the messy blood sucking to the 'hero' removing a corpse's head and pulling the eyeballs from another body – are distasteful in the extreme, and the film opens with a scene of child abuse that proves to be a little bit too near the knuckle and will have most viewers switching off there and then.
And, of course, as this is an exploitation movie, there are lots of naked women, both dead and alive, including an obligatory lesbian scene thrown in to pad out the running time.The only real reason to watch this film is for the performance of Werner Pochath.
He's astonishingly good in the titular role; although he plays a deaf-mute, he really puts across his character's psychology and at the same time makes his protagonist a sympathetic one.
In a career of playing heavies and bad guys, Pochath may well give his best performance and it's a crying shame that most people will never get to see it, put off by the repulsive subject matter.
Still, Pochath isn't enough to lift this sickie from the doldrums, where it carries out the double crime of being utterly unpleasant AND boring, both at the same time..
"Mosquito der Schänder" or "Mosquito the Rapist" or "Bloodlust" is a Swiss film from 1977 made by Marijan Vajda and Mario d'Alcala and it's a German language film.
Famous director Jesús Franco is known for producing films in Switzerland during that time that were a mix of horror and sex and this is exactly it.
This may be one difference to Franco, the necrophilia and horror component are bigger than his films and there is less graphic sexuality instead.The movie runs for slightly under 90 minutes and takes us into the life of a man with severe physical as well as emotional disability.
I must say this is nowhere near the likes of "Angst", not a masterpiece of the genre, but the film still has some solid moments and overall I would not call it a failure.
Werner Pochtath is excellent as a traumatised deaf-mute office worker who's pushed over the edge by the cruel teasing of his co-workers.
He goes one step further when he buys a glass straw and uses it to drink blood from the dead, and his murder victims.
Scenes of Pochtath slurping blood like milkshake (and in one instance dribbling it over a dead person's face) are disturbing and unforgettable.