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's weird. Maybe it's because he's so quiet. 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. The Mother warns her to stay away from The Man, because there's something off about him.

At night, The Man tries to visit prostitutes, but he can't communicate or perform. 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. to believe may or may not be suicide. 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's slow moving, but I wasn't bored. By the time The Man gets to killing, it descends into the sleazy madness hinted at by the back of the box. But it's a near-silent meditation on trying to escape abuse and man's continual inhumanity to man. 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.

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!

"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. It may not be a Franco production, but it is possibly inspired by his work. Next year, this film will have its 40th anniversary. I cannot say I am familiar with any of the actors in here, but then again, this is not an actors' film at all. It is all about the shock factor and the horror. 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. And when another character, the woman of his dreams, dies, he loses it completely and goes out killing people. 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. Nonetheless, the story-telling is simply not great, so this film is only enjoyable when you are in search of something to shock you. That's why, all in all I give it a thumbs-down and only recommend it to lovers of then genre. Everybody else should better stay away.