
- Year
- 1980
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Director
- Joe D'Amato
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (31/100)
- Also known as
- L'anthropophage · Anthropophagous: The Beast · The Beast · The Grim Reaper · The Zombie's Rage · Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper
- Banned in
- UK
Anthropophagus
A prosecuted DPP video nasty, released in Britain as Anthropophagous: The Beast.
Almost entirely people walking around an island. Then two minutes of infamy.
Notorious for two minutes and fairly dull for the other ninety. Tourists on a Greek island are stalked by a deranged cannibal, and Joe D'Amato coasts on atmosphere and location until the film's two infamous gore set pieces, one involving a fetus, the other the killer's own entrails, that earned it a permanent place on the video nasty list.
George Eastman, who co-wrote it, plays the hulking killer, and there is a genuine sense of desolation in the empty island setting. But the film is mostly people wandering until the shocks arrive.
Reputation built on two scenes. The rest tests your patience.
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