Anthropophagous (1980) (2024)

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• Review by Ian West ★★★★½ 8

  So much has been said about Anthropophagusover the years: it’s slow, it’s boring, the gore is awesome, this is some sicko depravity, and there isn’t enough burnt by the sun, cannibalistic, gut-leaking, fetus munching George Eastman (Honestly though, there’s NEVERenough George Eastman in any movie as far as I’m concerned) and I totally agree with all of those statements.

  Luckily I happen to be a fan of slow, boring, gory, sicko depraved movies with any amount of George Eastman and tonight was the perfect night to revisit a famed video nasty favorite of my younger years that I’d slightly soured on of late. Once again Severin films is responsible for me being back on my bullshit, I’m fascinated with/love this…

• Review by nathaxnne [hiatus <3] ★★★★★ 31

  DEATH WALKS BEHIND YOU

  Is it possible for a person to contract a doom so powerful it robs them of their humanity and radiates from their presence and actions so strongly as to infect and desecrate the land they inhabit, making all of life non-viable in its presence, existence rendered a horrifying dream broken only by the fulfillment of the terms of that curse, for the meting of the final doom, the marks of which shall be born by everything touched by it for as long as time itself is?

• Review by Tony the Terror ★★★½ 6

  I’ve seen this film about a psychotic killer wreaking havoc on a Greek island many times, but yesterday was the first time I watched its pseudo sequel so I felt the need to revisit this one.

  It’s good overall and in places it’s very good, but the drawback that keeps it from being great is the ridiculous pacing. It starts out with a great opening scene and it has a great third act, but damn it has a slow middle section with lots of talking and wandering around the deserted island. The upside is the island is really beautiful and it has a great creepy old mansion so the atmosphere delivers even when there is basically nothing going on.

  Crazy…

• Review by 🎃 c h r i s 🎃 ★★★½ 6

  Anthropophagous/The Grim Reaper/ The Savage Island/Man Eater/The Beast
  oh these Italian movies and their alternate titles!

  Joe Bob: “No one’s going to the movies to see a movie called ANTHROPOPHAGOUS!”

  sick days always consist of Joe Bob and Darcy, something about his own personal stories just make life alittle more sweeter!

  A group of friends and a hitchhiker are stranded on a Greek island where a cannibalistic killer inhabits the land, killing—and munching—on whatever he can get his hands on!
  I mean this has the reputation of being one of the more slow/boring video-nasties with that visually appalling final act, although much doesn’t happen during the middle act there’s practical effects galore, an eerie atmosphere, and I’m just a…

• Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★ 8

  Spooktober IV: Morte all'italiana

  Between this and Absurd, George Eastman was up there as one of the best transformative actors like Channey or Jones, except not on the same level, and sadly, his body of work in these types of films was very limited. The makeup work was incredible; he looked like a more menacing, less hairy version of Big Foot or something. I see the dude was, like, almost 7 feet tall!

  While there are some entertaining and unsettling sequences (the fetus scene), the film as a whole was a bit of a letdown. The grisly murders that Eastman and D'Amato devise are the film's high points, while the rest of the human characters appear to exist just to…

• Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★★ 4

  It’s like Saturn devouring his son but is only a fetus short on meat so he ends up munching his own guts out of starvation and lethargy. Doom Metal.

• Review by 🩸 Bloodcurdling Carlo V🩸 6

  Very, very, very, very boring until George Eastman eats a fetus and then it goes back to be being very, very, very, very boring again.

• Review by Ian West ★★★★½ 2

  The Good - Psycho George Eastman
  The Bad - Not enough Psycho George Eastman
  The Ugly - Me trying to pronounce Antropophagus

  Antropophaguswill always be close to my heart, and I had such an awesome time revisiting this infamous Video Nasty—That final act is worth the hour it takes to get there.

• Review by Jerry McGlothlin ★★★½ 2

  Impending doom takes the form of a looming apparition. Decaying flesh rotting away in the sepulcher, as putrid sludge permeates the darkened halls of this chamber of death and decay—nowhere to run or hide. Derangement reigns in this ruinous dungeon, with no regard for bodies living or dead. Lurking among the shadows he waits… you cannot see him, but you can smell the blood now curdled upon his rotten and jaundiced dermis.The boogeyman has returned, and he’s hungrier than ever.

• Review by Aberrant Ghoul ★★★★★ 6

  I really loved Island of Death because of the way it pushes the shock value more than most films that made it onto that infamous list. It didn't feel like the empty promise that so many video nasties did. It's not so much that I found it personally shocking, but that it aimed so high for its time. What really made it work though, is that it's all set against the scenic backdrop of a picturesque Greek island.

  It isn't the shock value that really does it for me with Antropophagus, however. Gore has zero negative effect on me and I'm not squeamish about cannibalism, or even fetus munching. I enjoy the gore, certainly, but it isn't shocking here. No,…

• Review by Slig001 ★★★★½

  Weirdy arthouse slasher. The film gets off to a great start, drags in the middle and then ends on a high. The film basically follows a group of people that head off to a sparsely habited Greek island, not realising that everyone that lives there has perished by the hand of a local madman. The bulk of the film sees our central characters wandering around the central island. It's not high on action but it's thick with atmosphere. The film is very well shot (Joe D'Amato so underrated!) and has a weird ethereal beauty to it. The slow pace just allows you to relax and take it all in! Common motifs include rotten corpses and reflections (in broken mirrors and…

• Review by The Voluptuous Horror of Sally Jane Black

  A gloriously infamous slow-boiled gorefest that feels like the unholy marriage between the dullest giallo you can imagine, a very satisfying slasher, and a classic cannibal film, this Video Nasty delivers what you expect from it based on the name or its reputation. I don't know what to add - why would you ever put this on if you didn't go in expecting exactly what you get here?