The Wind (1986)

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 "

I picked this one up because the music was done by Hans Zimmer, a customer of Metasonix modular synths (made by someone dear to me). The jacket art says "the 2003 version".I give it one point for a strong female, one point for cheezy dialog and one last point for meg foster's light blue eyes, of which there are plenty of shots of.It was fun seeing David MacCullum casually swimming (the pool has a plexiglass viewing window!), while his lady love was being chased by a psycho in Greece. The sets were marginally impressive-that is, rich people's houses in L.A. and Mendanassos (sp?), where the castle was. I found myself wondering how they were able to keep up the cleaning with all the dust blowing around. The wind wasn't fierce enough to be believable to me. I kept thinking that the animal pelts on the furniture must be nasty...etc. and realized that the film must be pretty boring if i am wondering these things when the supposed plot was unfolding. I stumbled over things like why did she light a fire, blow out the match, then throw the match into the fire?! Dumb stuff like that. It was clunky at best. Oh well. Robert Morely got to have a bit of fun with his kooky geezer character and a nice vacation out of it.

Suspenseful, atmospheric thriller finds Meg Foster as a novelist who is stalked by Wings Hauser in a small, deserted foreign village during he middle of a really bad wind storm. Takes it time getting started, but worth the wait. The last third is especially exciting. Meg Foster is solid as usual, though Hauser goes over the top. Rated R; Violence and Profanity.

I rented this a while ago, and despite being a bit cheesy, it's still a good movie that goes for a different style. It's actually quite entertaining.Sian Anderson (Meg Foster) goes on a trip to Greece (I think, I can't remember) to work on her next book. She shacks up in an isolated castle, which is pretty creepy. Then Phil (Wings Hauser) begins showing up, and becomes more and more ominous. That night, he shows up once again, and Sian realizes he's a killer. The bulk of the movie is the constant cat and mouse game they play in the castle, all leading up to a pretty scary ending.As I said, I rented this a while ago, and I really can't remember much. I don't even know if I liked it. But whenever I think back, it seems like it was a good movie. I don't know...check it out. It's different. And the fact that it's all just one unrelenting fight between the two characters is pretty interesting, and keeps a good pace. And as I said, the ending is pretty creepy, if I can remember. If you can get a hold of this, rent it or buy it.