The Port of Piraeus has a problem. There are a series of minor earthquakes and citizens disappear. Mists roll in. An island appears in the middle of the harbour. Many walk-like zombies toward the island. Gooified bodies begin to appear many missing limbs.
Meanwhile in Gotham City, ooops wrong movie but similar vibe, the merry life continues at a taverna with traditional Rebetiko music, drinking and dancing until the creatures attack it causing a pile of severed limbs and intestines to pile up.
And there is much traditional Greek music peppered throughout “Minore” but there is also heavy metal. There is also a plethora of many odd but striking characters including a yia yia (Efi Papatheodorou) as you have never seen before! There is Vikingesque body builder with a love of swords and modern automatic weapons. There is a mysterious elder bouzouki player Nikodimos (Meletis Georgiadis), a raunchy taxi driver, Greek gangsters, icon painter, mama’s boys, ancient Greeks, cheapskate priests, obsessive papu tavli players and many others.
Nikodimos warns children of the great devourer are passing through cracks to prepare a feast for him. Could it be typically Greek the monsters look like octopi! And strange that the showdown with these creatures and big mama al la “Alien” occurs in and on the grounds of a Greek Orthodox church and the weapon of greatest effective is amplified bouzoki music! And what a final battle it is with heads and limbs severed, faces ripped off and guns blasting and swords chopping off tentacles. And the monsters look far more realistic than a 1964 B horror movie. Were you ever remotely frightened by the blob in “The Blob”?
Enough horror here to keep you from that popcorn run yet enough humour for a few guffaws and priests, psychiatrists and Even Golden Dawn are not free from some of that classic Greek cinema jobbing you will find in many 60’s Greek films.
Looking for a jovial night out this Greek B comedy-horror movie is well worth it. So Greek even if you can’t clue in on this you really won’t miss much.
Half in Greek and half in English and when Greek there are subtitles.
This film screens in Toronto and go to https://gifft.ca for further details.
RKS 2024 Film Rating 88/100.
You can watch the trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agy3j21q3sY
Director is Konstantinos Koutsoliotas.
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