Many tags can fit the filmmaker Nikos Zervos, he is one of the key figures in the development of Greek cinema, a brilliant satirist of the culture and society and a former vice president of the Greek Directors Association from 2001 to 2010. I have only seen Exiled in the Central Avenue (1979), Sapounopetra: To hrima sto Laimo sas (1995), Black + White (1973) and the crazy Greek counterculture horror musical satire Dracula of Exarcheia (1983), my personal favourite in his filmography. He has made chaotic, anarchic films in the underground and moved towards a later professionalism that can be seen in his filmmaking style, preserving all its usual satire and being crony.
Zervos emphasized the madness that nests of the early 80s, mocking the fascism, anti-consumerism, LGBTQ theme and hyperboles that put sex, feminism, absurdness at the very core of its rhetorical structure with the manifest aim of offending as many. A mad scientist who is like a hybrid between Count Dracula and Dr. Frankenstein brings together a band by assembling the body parts of the famous deceased musicians. Then we see a heteronormative chick who hangs around, i was glad to spot a Motorhead and British horror classic Cry of the Banshee movie poster in her bedroom. Don't miss the bonker rendition of "l'Internationale" by the Communist zombies earlier in the film. It is one of the funniest moments in the film, there's also a feminist body sequence with corny lines and effective cheesy humor manages to make you cringe and laugh throughout.
I want to recommend this absurd filth to those who get entertained by the works of the Ulrike Ottinger (Freak Orlando), Kuchar Brothers, David Lynch, José Rodriguez Soltero, Banmei Takahashi, Lisa Hammer, Kazuhiro Sano, Herbert Achternbusch, Jon Moritsugu, Yoshihiko Matsui, Eric Bummer, The Findlays, Teco Benson, John Waters, Roger A. Fratter, Nick Zedd and Norbert Moutier. THE REST CAN STAY AWAY!!
