When he auditioned for the role of Adam in this movie, did anyone tell him that he was playing a Nazi prison camp guard, because that's what he brought to the role. He is unrelentingly dour and ill-tempered, and demonstrated absolutely no emotional range beyond terse and testy. I kept waiting for him to puff coolly on a cigarette, slap the female lead with a leather glove, and declare that he had ways of making her talk.
Not that Lidia Szabo, as Thora, was much better. Thora is supposed the be a university professor hot on the trail of a mythical cryptid, and she brings all of the bearing and professionalism of a ditzy cocktail waitress to the role.
At the beginning of the movie, Thora gives a lecture on the fabled Mothman of American lore and legend. She has somehow deduced that the Mothman has left the United States, and is responsible for a string of disappearances in the woodlands and forests of Hungary. How she came through this stellar conclusion isn't even glossed over. She announces that she is going to Hungary to track down and document the winged horror, and asks for a volunteer to accompany her. Adam signs on for the mission.
Almost from the instant that they set out, Adam starts complaining about pretty much anything and everything, and demonstrates the personal charm and appeal of a syphillitic porcupine.
Long story short, you never catch a glimpse of the monster, because there isn't one. This is a movie about people making a movie about the creature, and Thora is an actress, and not a professor, after all. Adam ends up getting killed, which doesn't bother Thora or any of the others making this movie in the least. At one point, they're practically giddy over his death. At the end of the movie, Thora and the director are arrested for Adam's death.
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