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Forget Chuck Norris, here comes Chuck Steel! The best cop to ever walk the goddamned planet! Chuck Steel is a fearless, no-nonsense hero taken right from 1980s B-movies and series (and C-movies, or any other letter of the alphabet, for that matter). Chuck has everything that a proper ‘80s cop needs – big muscles, a big mouth, big guns (lots of them), an uncompromising attitude and major trauma. A year ago, he lost his wife. But like his boss says: ‘1985 is over, this is 1986!’ And in 1986, there’s no time for sentimentality. Chuck and his constantly dying partners have to get to the root of something very strange. The city is swarming with peculiar deaths and injuries. The hospital, for instance, accepts a woman slowly turning into a revolting creature of the night – something between a boozer and a vampire. Although the danger of vampires decimating the drunken population of the city seems at first to be the utter poppycock of an ancient geezer – a monster hunter – Chuck is eventually forced to admit that something strange is going on. Will he manage to save the world from the legacy of Transylvanian vampires who have been pushed to the edge of the society, hoping for a triumphant return to power led by their master? Or will he end up sucked dry, like a cheap wine box? This wild ride will chew up every film cliché and scheme and please viewers with an obvious passion for film oddities.

Midnight films frequently offer various kinds of humour. No wonder. Humour, although perhaps a little twisted, is an inseparable part of films for shock-proof audiences. Putting aside pure horrors, humour is present in all midnight shorts and is often extreme, properly wacky and duly racy.

The makers of this satiric film managed to transfer beer bellies, pig eyes, droopy faces, double chins and many other imperfections to the big screen with incredible believability. They were helped by iconic Austrian caricaturist Manfred Deix, whose work served as an inspiration for the film. We join his childhood alter ego in a small Austrian village in the 1960s where the locals would like to have everything in proper order. Woe betide anyone who would defy their extremely Catholic and far-right morale! The film’s young protagonist, son of the local innkeeper, would prefer to think (and, God forbid, perhaps even live) a little differently. His young eyes can see everything the adults contentedly ignore. He is unable to understand what others so loudly proclaim. The object of the boy’s desire, a girl named Mariolina, and his artistic talent eventually become the source of a public nuisance. We witness him fight for his life and the life of his chosen one with all the trouble that growing up in the horrendous town of Siegheilkirchen puts in their way.