Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

VividSimon Simply Perfect

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Leofwine_draca A typically lurid slice of exploitation from prolific director Joe D'Amato (who later teamed again with Eastman to make the entertaining ENDGAME), don't be lured into seeing this film on the strength of the cannibalism and gore. In fact, there is little gore in the entire film, although when it does arrive it is very extreme. For the most part, things are slow and extremely dull, without much action happening until we're well into the final third of the film. This makes it very hard to sit through, and it also reeks of cynical sleaze for sleaze's sake. Instead of being frightening, the film just turns out to be unpleasant, and laughable in places where it should be scary.Things start off well with one of those old machete-in-the-face shocks, but this is all the action we're going to get for an hour. We're then introduced to a bunch of young, dumb tourists who roam around a deserted island endlessly (think TOWER OF EVIL), finding a scrawl on a window reading "Go away" and generally doing very little. There are far too many scenes of people sitting around talking and even a pointless 'romantic' sub-plot. Yes, this is boring.Events pick up for the final half-an-hour, which to the film's credit actually does manage to have some creepy scenes. One shot of a man walking through a tunnel with a burning torch and discovering scattered skeletons while Gothic chords screech out on the soundtrack is near-perfect, and it's a shame that the rest of this film has been up to now so uneventful. From then on it's a series of murders, of the typical stabbing and throat-biting variety. Two gore scenes have made the first infamous; firstly, when the Beast eats a foetus (rumour has it to have been a rabbit), and then the climax, in which the monster's stomach is hacked open and he devours his own intestinal tract - although this proves to be unintentionally hilarious instead of disturbing.The acting from the young cast is of a low standard, and the dubbing is particularly bad at some moments, where absolutely no attempt has been made to tie the words and the lip movements together. Characters act in unbelievable ways, and indeed various actors and actresses become interchangeable. Tisa Farrow is the only one we really get to know, and she repeats her ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS role of an investigative woman who avoids being killed to end up as one of the survivors. George Eastman plays the baddie in some patently fake-looking papier-mache like lumpy makeup, and is menacing only because of his vast physical presence. If you're expecting excitement and action, then it would be wise to look elsewhere, as this is a very slow-moving and boring affair.

yaktheripper I've seen it on a bunch of lists, "Antropophagus" - "Most Disturbing" "Best Horro" etc...bleh.. This movie will put your butt to sleep and good. There is a little bit of gore in it, nothing a gore-hound will get excited about...the horror is almost nonexistent. Don't waste your precious time, there is nothing to see here. A "meh" movie if ever there was one. Apparently, I must write some more for the "guidelines". Okay, I was snoozing off and on throughout the movie. So I'll sum up the movie for you. This group of youngsters go to an island where some bad stuff happened (I think) some time ago. This weird chick shows up. Then a guy with oatmeal glued on his forehead appears and kills some people and it's supposed to be like...mad gory. So then he kills everyone except a girl and a blind chick. They run up a staircase away from him for like...ever. You could go microwave your dinner on that scene alone. Then old boy is on the roof and he rips one of the girls up through the roof and her face gets jacked up, he then gets stabbed in the foot and falls of the roof. Then something happens in a well and a girl gets pulled in there with a rope or something and then some people run up and that's it. Ta daa.

Ben Larson Don't look for great acting in Joe D'Amato's gory horror flick. This is strictly low budget. In fact D'Amato, known as "The Evil Ed Wood," was never concerned with production values in his over 200 films. He was out to make money, and that was his yardstick for a good film - it was profitable.This film, properly known as Antropophagus, along with Absurd (Horrible) and Buio Omega (Beyond the Darkness), have given him cult status among horror film fans.It does have one great thing going for it. It was filmed in Greece and has a Greek soundtrack. Splendid! A lot of it was also filmed in Italy, and that is good, too.If you see the uncut version, as I have, you will gain 3 minutes of gore over the American version (The Grim Reaper), including the pregnant woman scene.The movie was the last for Mia Farrow's sister Tisa, who went on to become a nurse.

choochooman7 Anthropophagus (or The Grim Reaper, which is a cooler title) is a mostly terrible, unspectacular, and uneventful horror film that slowly stalls through it's non-plot, with some minor chasing and bloodshed during its brief conclusion. On most grounds, it is an undeniable failure. While it features the same goofy problems of every Italian horror flick from this period (terrible dubbing, bland acting in service of non-characters, and a story and sequence of events that don't seem to have been thought out in any logical fashion), this film creates a bigger sin than others of its ilk; it's about absolutely nothing for most of its scant runtime. Most Italian splatter flicks from this era are garbage, but entertaining garbage, and occasionally well-shot and insane garbage. But this film seems to exist in some sort of narrative black hole.The film follows a group of 6 boring tourists who travel to a small island for some bland fun: Tisa Farrow (who was briefly bitten by the acting bug just like her look-a-like sister Mia minus having, you know, any talent and never becoming famous), this guy who I think is supposed to be the male lead, but he doesn't do much and disappears for the entire last act of the movie (only to show up in the last 5 seconds to save the day!), this other guy who looks EXACTLY like the other guy, even down to having the same face and wearing the exact same clothes, he has a pregnant wife (uh oh!), this guy who is younger than the other two guys who falls in love with Tisa Farrow's charm and beauty, and Zora Kerova who completes the pointless love triangle by being in love with younger guy. Zora also acts as the one person who has a bad feeling about their trip to the island, as every one of these movies requires the crazy hysterical skeptic who turns out to be right about the evil amongst them. It's an easy way to work around characterization. Anyway, after an underwhelming opening kill, it takes the film almost an hour before the killer shows up and one of the central cast members is killed. An hour. It's amazing how long the characters are safe for in this film. They wander around, sleep in a spooky house during a thunderstorm, and wander around some more outside, and everyone is always A-OK, the killer is no where in sight. And then BOOM thunder reveals he's in the house with young guy and requisite blind girl. And the biggest surprise is that the cannibal maniac is actually kind of scary, genuinely.But his brief first appearance past the halfway mark of the film turns into another lengthy absence and he disappears for another half hour (!) only to show up again for the last 10 mins. D'Amato must have been going for a less is more approach, and normally I'd agree, but when the rest of the film is so static and uneventful and not particularly effective at sustaining any consistent mood or dread (though there are occasional moments that are decent at building this), it seems like an odd choice. D'Amato, the epitome of the lowest dreck of Italian cinema, and from what I read more interested in the business side of filmmaking than the artistic, either was genuinely trying to make a spooky film that didn't rely on only gore and sex (in fact, there's no sex or nudity to speak of), or they had no budget and most of the film is filler. There's no doubt the film is meandering and boring for 90% of its runtime, and the characters somehow feel like mannequins AND are blandly over-developed ("I sometimes work at a TV studio" "I'm in pharmacy, only 2 more tests and I have my degree").So it's a waste of time....except that killer is eerie! He's barely in the movie, but maybe that makes his appearance more effective. The make-up work is on the cheap side (as is all the gore), so some shots of him look better than others. But I must admit the chase/well climax kind of works because he is genuinely intimidating and threatening looking, and the music is actually kind of cool. It's an odd film because it is SO bland and uneventful, it doesn't seem right to suddenly have the cast be attacked by a giant scary madman with a gross face. A cast this minor and a plot this scant and atmosphere this lacking should feature a predictably lame villain, but in this case he's actually scary. And that well climax is a cool idea and is pretty suspenseful, though it doesn't milk the idea to its full potential, and then is kind of ruined by the film's stupidly abrupt ending.And disappointingly, most of the characters get off easy and get pretty minor deaths (except of course for the pregnant woman whose fate is the only one in bad taste, therefore it's the only memorable one). Zora Kerova is practically killed humanely for this type of movie (merely gets her throat slit, off screen I should add).So it's almost a complete waste of time, except for that killer, who fascinates me. He's like an uncontrollable, rogue element who doesn't seem to belong in the film, which is what makes him so off-putting and eerie. He doesn't conceivably belong in the movie; he's too creepy of a killer for a movie this uninvolving and pedestrian. So in that way, the movie stayed with me, despite 90% being a real slog. Is it worth it? That depends on whether one wants to put the time in to watch a worthless film with an underused but uniquely unsettling killer. He deserves to be in a better film. Anthropophagus just screams for a remake.