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Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper 1981 (DVD)

Description: Genre: Horror / Studio: Shriek Show / Production Year: 1981 / Actors: Mark Bodin, Tisa Farrow, Zora Kerova, Vanessa ... more

Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper 1981 (DVD) ... Steiger, Saverio Vallone

Newest Review: ... competent, occasionally rather effective stalk-and-slash movie with quite a lot to recommend it. Although it does still have ... more

... those spectacular bad-taste gore moments. The gory bits are what films like this are built around. Structurally, this kind of horror film is no different to pornography - the plot is only there as a framework in which to hang the set-piece violent bits. There seems to have been a sort of nasty one-upmanship in Italian exploitation, which led to some of the most notorious video nasty money shots, like the eyeball bit in Zombie Flesh Eaters, or the meathooks moment in Cannibal Ferox. I'm not going to tell you wha...more

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Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper 1981 (DVD): A throat-ripping, gut-munching treat! (1104 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 04.01.08 (Very useful, 102 readings)
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A review of just the film. This has been released on DVD in the UK, but only in a heavily cut form. A video nasty from 1980, Anthropophagus (released in this country as 'Anthropophagous The Beast' during the early 80s home video boom, and as 'The Grim Reaper' in America) is the work of director Joe D'Amato. Italian exploitation in the 70s and 80s wasn't exactly known for being classy - this is the cinema sub-culture that gave us Cannibal Holocaust and Gestapo's Last Orgy - but even in that context, D'Amato was a grotty director. Although generally competent (unlike, say, Jesus Franco, the director I'd say he's thematically closest to), his subject matter is ...

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