Crimson Screens witnesses the horror of "Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper"...
Crimson Screens witnesses the horror of "Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper"...
Ok, I have been mega sick lately and so I have had a lot of time to lay in bed and catch up with some movies. This coming Monday, I have surgery, and after that I will have about another week to catch up on more movies. I do get side tracked a lot of the time with certain TV shows on DVD, but I will try to keep that to a minimum this week and post a lot of reviews. Hopefully this surgery will help end some current problems I have going on. So let's hope for the best, ok?
The other night, I wasn't particularly tired, just worn down, you know? Someone was nice enough to send me a copy of the new DVD release of "Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper". I had seen this a long time ago, and it had basically faded from memory, which was not a good sign, but I remember when I was growing up, it was one of the "must see" titles, mainly because of its place on that sometimes extremely misleading video nasties list.
This one is about a group of people on a vacation, first on a boat and then on an uninhabited island. I already have complaints, so here we go. Absolutely nothing happens while the characters are on the boat. They just sit around and talk about stuff that I didn't care about and actually none of what they talked had anything to do with the movie. It was just like listening to a group of random people who you have never met talk about bullshit. Real boring. Ok, well they finally get to this island and it just happens to be abandoned. They walk around the island forever talking about more bullshit. And soon enough, haha, well actually not soon enough, a weird disfigured man shows up to kill them all in horrible ways. The stupidity continues because whenever one person is killed, the others walk around looking for them. And they walk around looking for the missing person forever. I bet if you edited out all the pointless dialogue and the endless scenes of people walking around, this movie would be about fifteen minutes long. Ugh.
Ok, so this guy is killing them all off, and he is played by George Eastman, star of many Italian horror movies and also star of many porn movies. He is a tall and big man and his character is kind of imposing, with his disfigured face. So I guess that was a plus. Also, there are a few decent scenes, not neccessarily scary, but more neat ways of how the killer lurks around or gets into a house.
This movie has a lot of noteriety surrounding it, due to the supposed over the top gore. Yeah right, the gore here is very poorly done. The infamous fetus eating scene is just stupid and not gross or anything at all. Also, the editing sucks, so they cut away from a lot of the gore a lot quicker than you think they would have, had you see any of director Joe D'Amatos movies. At the end, the killer is disemboweled, and in the most absurd scene in a long time, he eats parts of his intestines before he finally expires.
Oh trust me, this all sound a lot better than it plays. In fact, this movie is dreadfully boring, even when most of the kills are taking place. There is bad acting all over the place and, as I said before, the effects work is shitty at best.
Director Joe D'Amato has made countless other movies, a few better than this, but most just as bad or worse. If you must see one of his movies, I recommend Buio Omega, which is a very well done movie that deals in all sorts of weird stuff. It is competently made, interesting and well acted. But this one, stay away from it. It sucks. If you must see it, rent it. I cannot find any reason to buy this though.
On a side note, this movie was placed on the video nasty list in the late 80s. I say that had it not been on that list, no one would care about it and it would have been forgotten as just another shitty slasher movie. In fact, there are a lot of movies on that list, that are complete shit and the only reason anyone talks about them is because they are on that list. There are even some titles on there that would hardly get an R these days. Incredible.
So yeah, don't see Anthropophagus. It is a terrible movie and a waste of your time.
Ok, I have been mega sick lately and so I have had a lot of time to lay in bed and catch up with some movies. This coming Monday, I have surgery, and after that I will have about another week to catch up on more movies. I do get side tracked a lot of the time with certain TV shows on DVD, but I will try to keep that to a minimum this week and post a lot of reviews. Hopefully this surgery will help end some current problems I have going on. So let's hope for the best, ok?
The other night, I wasn't particularly tired, just worn down, you know? Someone was nice enough to send me a copy of the new DVD release of "Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper". I had seen this a long time ago, and it had basically faded from memory, which was not a good sign, but I remember when I was growing up, it was one of the "must see" titles, mainly because of its place on that sometimes extremely misleading video nasties list.
This one is about a group of people on a vacation, first on a boat and then on an uninhabited island. I already have complaints, so here we go. Absolutely nothing happens while the characters are on the boat. They just sit around and talk about stuff that I didn't care about and actually none of what they talked had anything to do with the movie. It was just like listening to a group of random people who you have never met talk about bullshit. Real boring. Ok, well they finally get to this island and it just happens to be abandoned. They walk around the island forever talking about more bullshit. And soon enough, haha, well actually not soon enough, a weird disfigured man shows up to kill them all in horrible ways. The stupidity continues because whenever one person is killed, the others walk around looking for them. And they walk around looking for the missing person forever. I bet if you edited out all the pointless dialogue and the endless scenes of people walking around, this movie would be about fifteen minutes long. Ugh.
Ok, so this guy is killing them all off, and he is played by George Eastman, star of many Italian horror movies and also star of many porn movies. He is a tall and big man and his character is kind of imposing, with his disfigured face. So I guess that was a plus. Also, there are a few decent scenes, not neccessarily scary, but more neat ways of how the killer lurks around or gets into a house.
This movie has a lot of noteriety surrounding it, due to the supposed over the top gore. Yeah right, the gore here is very poorly done. The infamous fetus eating scene is just stupid and not gross or anything at all. Also, the editing sucks, so they cut away from a lot of the gore a lot quicker than you think they would have, had you see any of director Joe D'Amatos movies. At the end, the killer is disemboweled, and in the most absurd scene in a long time, he eats parts of his intestines before he finally expires.
Oh trust me, this all sound a lot better than it plays. In fact, this movie is dreadfully boring, even when most of the kills are taking place. There is bad acting all over the place and, as I said before, the effects work is shitty at best.
Director Joe D'Amato has made countless other movies, a few better than this, but most just as bad or worse. If you must see one of his movies, I recommend Buio Omega, which is a very well done movie that deals in all sorts of weird stuff. It is competently made, interesting and well acted. But this one, stay away from it. It sucks. If you must see it, rent it. I cannot find any reason to buy this though.
On a side note, this movie was placed on the video nasty list in the late 80s. I say that had it not been on that list, no one would care about it and it would have been forgotten as just another shitty slasher movie. In fact, there are a lot of movies on that list, that are complete shit and the only reason anyone talks about them is because they are on that list. There are even some titles on there that would hardly get an R these days. Incredible.
So yeah, don't see Anthropophagus. It is a terrible movie and a waste of your time.
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