Produzioni Cinematografiche Massaccesi International
Distributed by
Variety Distribution
Release date
9 August 1980 (1980-08-09) (Italy)
Running time
92 minutes
Country
Italy
Languages
Italian
German
Antropophagus (also known as Anthropophagus: The Beast, The Savage Island, and The Grim Reaper) is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Joe D'Amato, who is also the co-writer along with George Eastman. Eastman also stars as a cannibal. The film also features Tisa Farrow, Zora Kerova, Saverio Vallone, Serena Grandi, Margaret Mazzantini and Mark Bodin.
Antropophagus has been described as having "a noted place in the annals of the escalation of gore".[1] The film has gained cult status[2][3] - if only "amongst fringe horror video audiences".[4] It has been argued that the reason for its cult status lies in its theme of cannibalism, hence "consumption of humans", which lends itself to cult reception. The scene in which the titular man eater strangles a pregnant woman, tears out the fetus from her womb and bites into it, made it become one of the infamous "video nasties" that were prosecuted in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s, and the "controversy greatly aided its cult reputation" as well.[5]
^Dyer, Richard (2015). Lethal Repetition: Serial Killing in European Cinema. Palgrave. p. 71. ISBN 9781844579266.
^Hutchings, Peter (2009). The A to Z of Horror Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 216. ISBN 9780810870505.
^Giangrande, Antonio (23 August 2020). Giustiziopoli prima parte: Disfunzioni del sistema contro i singoli (in Italian). Antonio Giangrande. p. 113.
^Hunter, Jack (2002). The Bad Mirror. Creation. p. 122. ISBN 9781840680720.
^Mathijs, Ernest; Sexton, Jamie (2012). Cult Cinema: An Introduction. John Wiley & Sons. p. 242. ISBN 9781444396430.
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