Director: Joe D'Amato
Writers: Joe D'Amato & George Eastman
It's easy to see why Anthropophagous landed on the video nasty list. Just look at that poster. Add to that a scene where our cannibalistic villain strangles a pregnant woman while ripping out of her womb a fetus that he then proceeds to eat. The fetus was of course not an actual fetus, but a skinned rabbit. However this didn't stop someone on the board of censors from jumping to the outrageous conclusion that the director actually ripped a fetus out of a pregnant woman and labeling it a snuff film.
Anthropophagous is grade-A Italian trash. The movie begins with a scene featuring some German tourists that thoroughly confused me, as I thought that the subtitle or audio options on my DVD were not working correctly. After watching the scene at least half a dozen times, I finally realized that there were no subtitles for this scene and that what these people were saying was probably not important anyway.
This dog was just as confused as I was.
After the German tourists are killed off, we follow a group of young people who are visiting some friends who live on a small Greek island. When they arrive, the entire island is deserted. While exploring the island, they see an ominous figure in a window, a corpse, and "Go Away" written on a windowpane. But they don't go away. These people are obviously gigantic morons and deserve to die. And die they do. The killer, or perhaps anthropophagus, that does them in is a Greek man who ate his wife and child while stranded at sea. Obviously he was very hungry because when he got back to shore, he ate the entire island. How a single non-superhuman man can eat an entire island is beyond me. Perhaps they were all just as incredibly stupid as our main characters.
Anthropophagous (A.K.A. The Beast, A.K.A. The Grim Reaper, A.K.A. The Zombie's Rage) is an awful movie, but it is fun in a sleazy Italian way. Not surprising, considering it was made by Italian-sleaze royalty Joe D'Amato. Apparently there was also a sequel of sorts, Absurd, which I believe is also on the video nasties list. I look forward to it, even though I've heard awful things.
Enjoyablity: 6 1/2 out of 12 beers
Quality: 4 1/2 out of 10 skulls
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