Line #15 Film/WildBeasts


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3	A "nature-runs-amok" film from 1984, directed by Franco E. Prosperi.
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5	Somehow, a large amount of PCP has ended up in Frankfurt's [[WaterSourceTampering water supply]]. This drives local animals mad, especially those in the zoo. Soon, an entire city is in panic.
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7	!!This film has the examples of:
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9	* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: Tigers, lions, cheetahs, stampeding cows, a polar bear, rats, a dog....
10	* BearsAreBadNews: Suzy's ballet teacher is mauled by a polar bear from the zoo that somehow found its way into the school.
11	* BeepingComputers: The computers overseeing the zoo's security starts making lot of noise when the animals start going wild and try force their way out of their cages.
12	* BigBlackout: When the elephants find their way into an airport runway, their sudden appearance messes up one plane's landing and it crashes on the city's power supply, causing a blackout.
13	* BlatantLies: Despite the film opening with a claim that NoAnimalsWereHarmed, some animals are clearly getting hurt, like in the slaughterhouse scene where a lion digs its claws on a cow's back or in another scene where a cat is attacked by about a dozen rats.
14	* DestinationDefenestration: The sudden appearance of zoo's elephants on the streets of Frankfurts causes one car driver swerve through a store window.
15	* {{Epigraph}}: The NoAnimalsWereHarmed disclaimer from the opening is followed by a quote attributed to Francis Thrive (who in reality is likely a creation of the film's director):
16	--> "“Our madness engulfs everything and infects innocent victims such as children or animals."
17	* EveryCarIsAPinto: When a woman on the run from a cheetah crashes her car on another one, they both burst into flames.
18	* EvilOverlooker: The poster for the film has a face of a panther over the carnage caused by the animals. An alternative version has a tiger instead.
19	* EscapedAnimalRampage: PCP in Frankfurt's water system causes animals to go crazy, and various dangerous beasts escape from the local zoo to terrorize people.
20	* FireBreathingWeapon: When the swarming rats prove too much to handle, exterminators armed with flamethrowers are brought in to handle them.
21	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The {{epigraph}} unsubtly foreshadows [[spoiler:the twist that the contaminated water is affecting children as well]].
22	* JustTrainWrong: The poster shows a French TGV train despite the story taking place in West Germany.
23	* PornStache: Rip sports a very noticeable one.
24	* MyCarHatesMe: A couple in their car can't get it started as crazed elephants threaten to kill them.
25	* SoundtrackDissonance: As the blind composer is being killed by his crazed guide dog, calm piano music plays in the background.
26	* SwarmOfRats: Rats ascend from the sewers and kill a couple making out in [[AutoErotica their car]].
27	* TwistEnding: [[spoiler:The water is affecting children as well, and as Laura goes to pick up her daughter, she finds out that they have killed the school's caretaker]].
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