'The Wind' aka 'Edge of Terror' (1986) - Nico Mastorakis.

After making a notoriously bloody splash with his gruesome, goat-worrying 70s sleaze-fest ‘Island of Death’, the subsequent genre cinema of grisly-minded, Greek exploitation maverick, Nico Mastorakis quickly became no less essential than fellow horror iconoclasts, Fred ‘Night of the Creeps’ Dekker, Jeff ‘Squirm’ Lieberman and New York’s finest B-Movie Basket Case, Frank Henenlotter, with the dynamic filmmaker, Mastorakis displaying the same bravura versatility as Italian terror icons, Sergio Martino & Antonio Margheriti. With the Giallo cycle all but played out at the tail end of the 1980s, it is certainly intriguing to witness the sharp, Giallo-centric notes abounding in ‘Edge of Terror’ aka ‘The Wind’ (1986) that pitches hard-boiled, quick-witted mystery writer Sian Anderson (Meg Foster) against the pyrotechnically psychotic caretaker, Phil (Wings Hauser), their terse, increasingly brutal, amyl nitrate-fuelled battle upon the majestic, eerily deserted, wind-lashed Historic Greek island of Monemvasia is NOT readily forgotten!!!

With its sublimely strident electronic score, isolated, visually appealing location, gleeful Gialli tropes, and splenetic bursts of sanguineous violence, Mastoraki’s bold and breezy bloodbath ‘Edge of Terror’ remains a triumphantly terrifying 80s home-invasion shocker that grips the viewer's attention no less tenaciously today than upon its initial release! While brief, it was a treat seeing future ‘Jack Tillman:The Survivalist’ Steve Railsback, and in its own coldly efficient fashion, Nico Mastoraki’s infrequently acknowledged ‘Edge of Terror’ has not only kept its slashing edge razor keen, but this exceptionally thrilling, well-honed, Island-set slasher has clearly inspired many similarly conceived contemporary horror films such as ‘You’re Next’ and ‘Hush’ etc. Somewhat facetiously, I initially thought that the film’s curious title change from ‘The Wind’ to ‘Edge of Terror’ was prompted by the modestly amusing connotations to flatulence, and according to IMDB trivia, this was in fact the case!