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In this Z-grade Italian "gorror" movie, an American student and her friends go on a tour of the Greek islands and find themselves victimized and eaten by a disfigured psychotic cannibal who thinks tha... read more read more...t eating the flesh of strangers will help him atone for eating his own family after they were shipwrecked. Italian shlockmeister Joe D'Amato directed this yummy bit of fun. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 21 min.

Directed by: Joe D'Amato

Release Date: August 9, 1980

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DVD Release Date: January 29, 1999

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  • WrenchLT
    November 25, 2011
    WrenchLT
    Notorious Italian nasty, made infamous due to a couple of gross scenes of gore during the last 25 minutes of the movie... and they really were the only two points of interest for me. The movie plods along slowly, despite the atmospheric location and the occassional creepy vibe mo... read morest of the film came off a bit boring to me. The gory moments were too few and far between but I enjoyed what was served up - there aren't too many fetus eating moments in the depraved world of the horror film so gorehounds savor those moments when they turn up.
  • matertenebraum
    April 14, 2011
    matertenebraum
    D'Amato's horror film is notorious from its placement on the UK's video nasties list, and certain scenes in it do push the viewer into the outer reaches of stomach churning disgust. The film also has a reputation as one of the worst films on the list, with accusations that it is ... read moreboring, inconsequential, absurd. It doesn't even seem to be popular amongst D'Amato aficionados. Yet it's a striking work - full of atmospheric tension, horrific visions and the caustic misanthropy about contemporary society which was D'Amato's stock-in-trade.

    The film begins in the luxurious setting of a Greek island, where a couple of German tourists - swim-wear clad and equipped with the mod-con accoutrements of the early 1980s - are sunbathing and swimming only to be attacked and murdered by a mysterious figure. This offers a prologue to the main action, in which the same attacker menaces a larger group of Italian tourists who are island hopping and who happen to stop on the killer's island because they've picked up a boat-hiker who is going to be working there as the companion of a blind girl. As usually happens in a stalk-and-slash film, the killer - a giant cannibal played by regular D'Amato collaborator George Eastman (who also scripted) - picks the tourists off one by one and murders by munching into their necks and chomping on their flesh.

    The tourists are a typical bunch of middle-class twenty-somethings, concerned with sightseeing, their relationships and grabbing some sun. One of the party happens to have an interest in Tarot cards, and she reads those of one of her companions, a pregnant woman. Unhappily, she sees nothing in the cards, which she takes to suggest that the querent has "no future." This prophecy has an echo of the Sex Pistols' corrosive refrain in their God Save the Queen, a song which predicts the same "No Future" for English consumer society of roughly the same era. And like the Pistols' great anti-Monarchist song, D'Amato's film identifies the cause of no future as coming from those at the top of the social pile. We discover that the cannibal is a scion of a wealthy merchant family, who live in what looks like a typical mercantile, colonial mansion on the Island. This fellow has been involved in a shipwreck, and found himself forced to squabble with his wife in a lifeboat over the body of their son, whose carcass was now the only meat they had. The wife objected, and the man stabbed her in a desperate struggle for survival, after which he seems to have developed a taste for human meat which he satisfies on his murderous spree. But there's something about the scene in the lifeboat which is emblematic of the struggle for survival, the Darwinian survival of the fittest which Capitalism foists on us all. In encountering the cannibal, the tourists are encountering the truth about the system which allows them to afford such luxurious holidays in the first place.

    D'Amato emphasises this sense of characters encountering the truth about themselves through their encounter with the cannibal by a series of shots in which they see themselves reflected shortly before seeing him. The German tourist sees himself reflected in the cannibals knife, the first dead Italian confronts a mirror shortly before death and later the boat-hiker has to smash a huge mirror in which she is reflected in order to find her way into his lair and discover his secrets. The cannibal, as in Sondheim's contemporaneous 1980 Broadway musical Sweeney Todd (later filmed by Tim Burton) is a ideal image of a Capitalistic society in which man devours man, a rampage of anthropophagy which ends here with the cannibal literally chewing on his own entrails, a self-devouring monster.

    The film's most infamous scene depicts the fate of the pregnant woman, whose unborn baby is ripped from her by the cannibal and the foetus devoured, fresh from the womb. There can be no more visceral an image of a child born into the world of No Future than this, yet those who see it as mere unnecessary nastiness on D'Amato's part might reflect that it has a partial real life analogy in the treatment meted out to Sharon Tate's unborn child in the Manson gang murders as well as a rather more classical forebear in the famous Goya painting of Cronos devouring his child (in D'Amato's film, the father looks on as his child is eaten by the cannibal, but if the mirror analogy holds, he is looking at an image of himself).

    Often in D'Amato's films, white Europeans are seen as cursed with a culture which is deadly, cannibalising and exploitative. In setting Anthropophagus on a Greek Island, D'Amato traces that cannibalistic tendency back to its source in the classical civilisation of the Greeks, here stripped of its Romantic, idealized associations and seen as a devouring demon - a Minotaur in its island lair, feasting upon the young who are delivered by ship for sacrifice.
  • animegirlaya
    January 29, 2011
    animegirlaya
    Directed by Joe D'Amato and Starring Tisa Farrow, George Eastman, Saverio Vallone and Marcello Giombini.

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    I will admit it is creative and better than most Slasher fli... read morecks I have seen I mean it has more of a gothic way to it rather than just gruesome acts of violence and it is indeed more of a mystery movie that I can watch again. This was an Italian Slasher made for Asian markets back in the early 80s that's why there are indeed so many cultural references and my country so far we were the only one with this fully uncut back for its time. I do admit for likening Endgame so I had luck for likening this because Joe D' Amato said for likening that out of all his 150 films.

    A group of Australian tourist arrive on an island near Greece after their boat's engine failed. So they of course arrive on it and the blind man claims he can small blood around the place so they decide to explore an abandon mansion. One of the tourists finds an old diary but little do they know that they as people are being stalked by a hideous deformed cannibalistic man.

    Where do I start with the story? Well I guess I liked it, it wasn't lacking or boring it was interesting to watch more of the mystery elements rather than violence's I liked the whole scenes with the house some very creepy stuff I give you that.

    The acting isn't perfect but I think Australian actor Tisa Farrwoth performance was better than her role zombie but still.... George Eastman as the beast was nothing more than frighting with that disturbing makeup and killing scenes. In my opinion he is my top 3 slasher film villains too bad they never did another movie.

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    The music isn't all the frighting more classic depending on the version you can find I guess. I have a 3 disk Japanese Tokum DVD that is fully Uncut and comes with the original score and I praise it for originality rather than just being scary. The style of the movie is rather more gothic and dark more than anything that catacomb scene was just freaky as hell with it eating the fetus of the girl. I liked the dark lit sets with the old house; you don't see many of those sorts of things anymore in these films at least. But it's annoying because it gets very dark.

    The special effects are indeed original along with the killing scenes not just a stab to the body. And then the blood and gore is indeed freaky the ending scene was indeed fucked up. But overall it's not a very high body count but they are graphic deaths. This movie has a fan base all around the world and frankly I finally see why, before I finished school some of my friends were ended talking about the movie and indeed how gory it was.

    No doubt the perfect film to watch on Halloween with your friends this year.

    Keiko's score 89-100.
  • shitfaced8
    March 23, 2011
    shitfaced8
    The infamous Joe D'Amato's masterpiece of gore worship. Not actually as unrelentingly violent as I was expecting it to be, with only two actually ultra violent scenes to be found. The maniac ripping the fetus out of the mothers womb and eating it, and of course the maniac ripping... read more out his own intestines and eating them. What this does offer aside from gore is a rather by the numbers horror story about some rich kid tourists who visit a deserted island only to find that everyone on the Island seems to have dissappeared. Slowly they realize that the Island's inhabitants have actually been savagely murdered, and more often than not eaten as well. I thought that that one flashback scene of the killer, seemingly lost at sea, and forced to eat his wife and kid to survive, was a bad move for the film. No explanation was necassary. The guy lives in the caves of a deserted Island and eats all who step foot on it. What else would he be doing with his time? Watching televsion? Paying Taxes? Trying to over explain or rationalize horror movie maniacs behaviour (especially when it is done this heavy handedly) almost always proves to be a misstep. When all is said and done a very enjoyable Italian gore flick and I can definently see why it is D'Amato's most well known film. It is probably his most accessible (that I've seen) and all around best. Perhaps best known for those 2 gore scenes mentioned above, the film should be seen as a whole. I just hate when people epitomize a movie only for it's most extreme aspects and don't pay attention to anything else going on around it. This film does also have a pretty simple, but good nonetheless story, an awesome score, mediocre (but not bad) acting, and yes good gore. Must see for gorehounds. (PS, people who complain about bad dubs in Italian horror films are a pain in the ass. That's part of the fun. Get used to it or watch something else.)
  • John2223
    July 10, 2009
    John2223
    The movie has blood, gore, or brutal death sequences that are not easy forgetable. "Antropophagus" is a suspenseful movie that creates a creepy atmosphere based on an eerie Greek ghost town, an easy to follow but interesting plot, and believable performances.
  • superchris5001
    August 19, 2011
    superchris5001
    this is a creepy movie by joe D'Amato. the make-up on the killer is cheesy buy effective and the effects are pretty good especially the famous fetus scene. This movie would've gotten 4 stars from me if it wasnt for one problem. ITS TOO SLOW. it drags along so much that i got bore... read mored halfway through the movie. i think i actually stopped watching it and finished it later. if you can handle its pacing problems its actually pretty good.
  • jk2two
    August 17, 2011
    jk2two
    D'Amato followed up the dirty Beyond Darkness with the similarly filthy Anthropophagus. This Italian gore-sploitation flick is notorious for a few select scenes - particularly one involving an unborn fetus, and those scenes certainly push the boundaries of taste. Unfortunately, m... read moreuch like in his previous film, D'Amato pads this sucker with long stretched scenes where literally nothing is happening. This gets frustrating, particularly towards the end of the film when the gore is interspersed by 3-4 minutes of someone walking around. Compared to Beyond Darkness however, Anthropophagus is much more engaging and easier to enjoy. It's your basic monster movie at its core and that seems to work better with this kind of pacing. That makeup job on the monster is cheap, but genuinely effective. Don't get me wrong though, it's still sloppy as hell and edited with a randomness that defies explanation, but I suppose that was part of these Italian films' appeal during this period. There is plenty to laugh at and enough blood and gore to keep it interesting, though slow. It's definitely slow.
  • Sloirishbud
    September 3, 2010
    Sloirishbud
    A monstrous man murders a pregnant lady and cuts out and eats a fetus in this lovely gem from Italian schlockmeister D'Amato.
  • dukeakasmudge
    May 5, 2010
    dukeakasmudge
    I REALLY didnt expect to like this movie at all.I thought it was gonna be another bad Italian zombie flick but I was suprised how good it was.I can see why it was banned in so many countries
  • brocksssssnyder
    August 22, 2009
    brocksssssnyder
    hilariously bad of course but the second act dragged on and on and on. it could have been worse and by worse i mean better, obviously. but i will not cast it aside entirely. some scenes are purely cinematographic achievements for a porno director.

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Tim Brayton
June 21, 2010
Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy

It's not very good in an objective, universal sense. As a Joe D'Amato film, it's the next thing to a masterpiece. Full Review

Emanuel Levy
July 24, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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