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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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