Best movie of this year hands down!

A Major Disappointment

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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 "

"The Wind" has some things going for it: an awesome, scenic location (Monemvasia, Greece), a strong cast (in fact, this may be the biggest casting coup that Nico Mastorakis ever achieved - even if scene-stealer Robert Morley really only has one sequence to himself, and David McCallum about three), and a score that's a homage to the gialli of the 1970s (an early work by Hans Zimmer!). But it is repetitive, and the story has no real surprises (certainly the fact that the villain has to be killed about three separate times before he finally dies is not one of them). This film might have worked better as a 30-minute short or an episode of a TV series; there isn't enough material here for a 90-minute feature. ** out of 4.

My wife was somehow convinced during this film that Meg Foster is a post-op transvestite. Not sure why though. Meg's a cheesy novel writer headed off to Greek island to indulge in her muse and perhaps eat kebabs and such like, but when she gets there her eccentric landlord (played by 140 year old Robert Morley) warns her to beware of the wind and also informs her that the housekeeper is a loser. He's right on both counts, because the wind never lets up for the entire film, and his housekeeper is a loser, because he's played by cheeseball actor Wings Hauser!I'm just joking, we all love Wings in our house. He was great in Mutant (a film I like but everyone else in the world hates) and Nightmare at Noon (also known as 'Mutant again under a different name'). Here, he's the evilly named Phil, and turns up at Meg's new house all a-grinning and crazed right from the get go. Inspired, Meg starts writing a story in which she imagines Wings braining Robert Morley with a poker, but then, it turns out, she sees Wings burying a body in a field. So is it all just in her imagination? Is Wings really a crazy goofy killer? Or is the wind something sinister and not something caused by eating too many kebabs?Director Niko Mastorakis takes time out from making Oliver Reed kiss men (Hired to Kill), forcing George Kennedy to shoot crazed citizens (Nightmare at Noon), and filming a guy giving a goat some up it's wrong un (Island of Death), to give a more sedate and moody film where Wings chases Meg Foster around in circles. It's all done Giallo style, and just like a giallo, there's plenty of raised questions and a head scratching ending. Edge of Terror isn't quite as crazy as Mastorakis' other films, but it's no slouch either. Although the film is bloodless and boobless, the Greek island scenery really helps conjure up words like 'isolated', 'atmospheric' and 'Wings-tastic'. Wings is the draw here for me, playing a guy who can't go for a second without going through some sort of mood swing. As Nietchze says: If you look into Wings Hauser long enough, Wings Hauser looks into you.

One thing I really love about ex-rentals is the movie previews before the main feature, and that's how I came to know of this film. However it's only natural to have the best scenes in the trailer to wet your appetite… and by the way it bestows quite a cool video artwork.Director / writer Nico Mastorakis (who made the very infamous video nasty "Island of Death") was churning out numerously quickly produced low-budget / straight to video enterprises in the mid to late eighties and "The Wind" aka "Edge of Terror" would have to be the pick of the lot for its interesting setting and exemplary lead performances from Meg Foster and Wings Hauser.Mystery writer Sian Anderson travels to the Greek Isles for a couple of weeks to stay at an ancient villa in an isolated ghost town to storm up ideas for her next novel. The landlord warns her not to go out at night due to the killer winds that pass throughout the night, but another threat could be in the shape of the landlord's handyman Phil. Something about this man unnerves Sian, especially when one night she believes she saw him burying a corpse that just happens to be the landlord.The pulpy story holds up rather well, leading us down the path maybe all of this is happening in the imaginative mind of its protagonist, as this when Steve Railsback's sceptical character comes into the equation. Perhaps predictable and systematic, but making headway of the standard material is the scenic local flavour that's arrestingly atmospheric, especially the eerie night sequences when the howling wind kicks in. Mastorakis ideally creates an edgy vibe with his lighting composition of shadows and lighting around the ancient villa on an ocean cliff-top with it being backed up by the shivery, high-strung music score and terse photography. You're really thrown right into it. What starts off slow-boil in genuinely building up the suspenseful situation, soon transforms in to a tautly simple-minded cat and mouse formula knowing too well of the clichés to suitably play them up. Towards the end it begins to meander, as some stupidity occurs and the final shot (while beautifully projected) is quite a laughable chance of fate.Meg Foster makes for a strong, affable heroine who seems to have something constantly witty to say and a bug-eyed Hauser (in a fetching knitted white jumper) is simply made for these wack-job roles and he doesn't disappoint with his impulsively dangerous and rip-snorting villain. His exchanges with Foster early on is effectively engaging - "Death is a whole lot different on paper." Robert Morley and David McCallum also pop up.