A highlight of the 2024 NecronomiCon in Providence, R. I. was the U. S. premiere of this gonzo action / horror / comedy from Konstaninos Koutsoliotas. When a British (I think) sailor (Davide Tucci) settles in for a stay in a sleepy Greek resort town, he's forced to join a posse of locals to defend the place against a seaside invasion of well, creatures. From out of the sea come hostile cyclopean monsters ... a little bit like the flying brains from Fiend Without A Face, only they have eyes. And tentacles. The first line of defense: since almost everyone in the film plays bouzouki (how Greek can you get?) the obvious strategy is to combine the musical and the paramilitary and merge bouzoukis with assault rifles into deadly weapons to repel these hard-to-kill invaders.
If you think that sounds like a Quentin Tarantino / Robert Rodriguez-type strategy, you're on the right track, since at times Minore evokes what would happen if Tarantino and Rodriguez - maybe on a lark with Edgar Wright - made a version of John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes (an end of the world monster novel that, curiously, has never been filmed). Despite Tucci's nominal placement as hero, Minore is a true ensemble effort that blends gangsters, tourists, male models/bodybuilders, a granny only too willing & able to defend herself, etc. Koutsoliotas and collaborator Elizabeth E. Schuch must be congratulated on this work of Lovecraftian horror (the invaders' mastermind is a kind of giant Cthulhu-like creature) that is simultaneously unforgettable ... and very hard to describe: you have to see it!