1986 film
The Wind
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Promotional poster
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Directed by
| Nico Mastorakis
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Screenplay by
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- Nico Mastorakis
- Fred Perry
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Produced by
| Nico Mastorakis
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Starring
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Cinematography
| Andreas Bellis
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Edited by
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- Bruce Cannon
- Nico Mastorakis
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Music by
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Production
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Distributed by
| DPI Propaganda
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Release date
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- November 17, 1986
(
1986-11-17
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Running time
| 92 minutes
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Language
| English
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The Wind
(also known as
The Edge of Terror
and
Terror's Edge
[1]
) is a 1986
slasher film
co-written, produced, co-edited and directed by
Nico Mastorakis
. It stars
Meg Foster
,
Wings Hauser
,
Robert Morley
, and
David McCallum
. The film follows a novelist who is under attack by an assailant during a windy night in
Monemvasia
. An international co-production between the United States and Greece.
Plot
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American novelist Sian Anderson travels to the solitude of Greek island
Monemvasia
from her
Los Angeles
home to write her newest mystery book. She rents a home owned by Elias Appelby, an eccentric elderly man, who advises her that a strong and massive wind will occur throughout the night, and that he recommends she stay indoors while the wind blows from the sea. After Elias leaves, Sian is met by Phil, a gruff handyman and fellow American who also lives on the property.
That night, Phil murders Elias after he attempts to fire him. Sian later witnesses Phil burying something from a distance. When she goes to investigate, she finds Elias's corpse. Terrified, she phones her boyfriend, John, back in Los Angeles, and asks him to report the crime, as she does not know the emergency number in Greece. She also tries to call Elias's wife, whose phone number she locates, but is unable to communicate with her as she does not speak English. Phil, realizing that Sian knows what happened, breaks into the house through the basement. Armed with a
sickle
, Phil attempts to attack Sian, but Sian thwarts him by closing the basement hatch and pouring kerosene on him. In the basement, Phil taunts Sian by toying with the generator, causing the lights to go on and off.
Hiding in an upstairs room of the home, Sian later hears Elias's wife arrive at the house, calling out for her husband. As she wanders toward the entry, Phil stabs her to death. Sian manages to phone John again, who tells her he has two operators attempting to reach Greek authorities. Soon after, the local police station on Monemvasia receives a call about a woman in distress at the Appleby estate. Kesner, an American marine captain stranded on the island due to the weather, offers to go help Sian, who has locked herself in the house. She allows him in and is momentarily at ease, until Kesner is murdered by Phil, who has infiltrated the house. Sian discovers Kesner stabbed to death in an upstairs bedroom, along with the corpses of Elias and his wife stuffed inside a closet.
Cornered and helpless, Sian recalls that Elias had mentioned several locked closets in the home, which he used to store his son's hunting weapons, and had requested she leave them unbothered. Sian locates the closets and breaks into them, arming herself with a rifle. She begins to shoot at Phil from a second-story window, as he raves maniacally below. Phil then proceeds to scale a wall, reaching a balcony on the second story of the home, where Sian has created a
booby trap
on one of the door shutters by pulling it against the wind current with a piece of rope; as Phil approaches her, she slashes the rope with a knife, forcing the door to swing out and strike Phil, causing him to impale himself on his sickle before falling to the ground below.
Presuming Phil dead, Sian flees the house, stumbling through stone pathways toward the villa. In a corridor, the ground gives out and she falls into a cavern beneath the street, where she finds a man's skeleton. At dawn, Sian finds a way out of the caverns, and ends up on a rock wall along the coast, where she sees a young honeymooning couple driving down the road. She calls out to them, but they do not hear her. She is then met by Phil, who survived his earlier fall. He begins chasing Sian, who flees through the winding cliffside pathways. Phil eventually corners Sian and attempts to strike her with the sickle, but a gust of wind forces him to lose his footing, and he falls to his death.
Cast
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Release
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The Wind
was released on
VHS
in the United States by
Lightning Video
in 1987,
[2]
and by
PolyGram Video
in the United Kingdom as
The Edge of Terror
.
[3]
Simitar Entertainment
released the film on
DVD
on June 29, 1999,
[4]
with
Image Entertainment
later releasing the film on March 25, 2003.
[5]
On January 31, 2020,
Arrow Video
announced that they will be issuing
The Wind
on
Blu-ray
,
[6]
which was released on April 14.
[7]
References
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b
"The Wind"
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British Film Institute
. Archived from
the original
on March 5, 2020.
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"The Wind"
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VHS Collector
.
Archived
from the original on March 5, 2020.
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"Edge of Terror, The"
.
Video Collector
.
Archived
from the original on March 5, 2020.
- ^
"Wind, The"
.
DVDEmpire.com
.
Archived
from the original on March 5, 2020.
- ^
"Wind, The"
.
DVDEmpire.com
.
Archived
from the original on March 5, 2020.
- ^
"Upcoming Arrow Video Blu-ray Releases"
.
Blu-ray.com
.
Archived
from the original on March 5, 2020.
- ^
"The Wind Blu-ray"
.
Arrow Films
.
Archived
from the original on March 5, 2020.
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