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Summary: Cut yet effective Italian horror fest
Review: A group of young men and women sail the Adriatic only to come to an island strangely abandonned. What they don't know is that a monsterous cannibal , an Anthropophagus (original title) is stalking them and eating them one by one. Although the US cut doesn't include the vicious fetus eating scene or the gut munching finale, this film is still an effective thriller, and a bit more cerebral than the traditional Friday the 13th genre slasher which is a surprise considering that it was filmed by Joe D'Amato, the king of the Italian C-movie.
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Summary: Great movie, terrible DVD
Review: Although this is one of the "all-time" video nasties, the version put on this DVD hardly can be watched for every drop of blood has been cut from this version. Anchor Bay, if you read this, please release this movie as it should be!
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Summary: Cut to ribbons...and I don't mean the victims
Review: I know I'm only restating what's been said countless times, but just to avoid anyone making the same mistake I did buying this:The original, uncut version of this movie goes by "Anthropophagus: The Beast" or "Unsane". Those titled movies include the notorious scenes of the fetus getting ripped out of a woman's womb and the self-evisceration and devouring of the zombie's guts at the film's end. As of this writing, Anthropophagus is not available (to my knowledge) on a US, region 1 DVD. This heavily cut and edited version is all that is available on DVD (though the uncut versions are purchasable on VHS in NTSC format). Add to the fact that the picture and sound on Grim Reaper is laughably bad and that there are no special features (not even chapter stops- the whole movie runs in one continuous loop, so to jump ahead requires your finger on the fast frame or fast rewind buttons), and what was an effective gross-out, 3 1/2 star gore flick has been transferred into a 1 star ripoff. Perhaps we'll see Anthropophagus in an uncut DVD version by Anchor Bay or Image in the not too distant future. Until then, steer clear of this abomination.
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Summary: great movie
Review: I loved that movie. The uncut European (German vesion) is fantastic. Americans - avoid the terribly cut US-version.
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Summary: $ave your $$$ and dont buy this crap
Review: I own this movie because a Friend recommended it, but It's not the original version, it is cut and edited, C'mon guys better sit down and watch TV this weekend, there are better movies there....
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Summary: Gut crunching stuff
Review: Oh dear, you definitely need to see this uncut! This film was released uncut in the UK briefly, but soon banned, and is now incredibly rare. It involves the stalking and murder of a group of holidaymakers in Greece by a huge flesh eating man-beast. The film shambles along depicting murders on board ships, in spooky villas and in caves, all without any suspense or depth. It stars Tisa Farrow, sister of Mia, who looks vacant and vunerable throughout (Is this intentional?) as well as Zora Kerova, star of several Italian gore epics of the 80's. Nearly all characters succumb to the monster's hungry advances, and the murder scenes are gruesome enough, although the gore looks cheap and the foetus eating scene is hardly convincing (mind you, he really seems to be taking a bite out of it, whatever it is!). D'Amato even manages to introduce suspense in the final few minutes as Tisa Farrow is attacked in a well, but its all too late, and the final intestine-chewing death of the creature is laughable. Good riddance, you may say, except that the monster appears again in the sequel (entitled "Absurd" in the UK) which is actually much better, so try and get that instead.
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Summary: Bad version, heavily cut with horrible sound
Review: Okay, first off, I did not buy this version of Anthropophagous (or as it's titled here Grim Reaper). I'm writing this to let ALL of you know that this version is not worth the buy. There is, however, a place to get this--FULLY uncut with all the restored footage (including the fetus-devouring scene and the last scene, the self-consumption of the entrails). Go to [website] and visit their DVD section. They've got it there, along with dozens of other obscure horror, gore and exploitation flicks. While the DVD that I ordered there has trouble fastforwarding and rewinding, I still have the entire complete footage. The website really is the #1 place to go for anything like this...if they can't do it, none can.
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Summary: Bad version, heavily cut with horrible sound
Review: Okay, first off, I did not buy this version of Anthropophagous (or as it's titled here Grim Reaper). I'm writing this to let ALL of you know that this version is not worth the buy. There is, however, a place to get this--FULLY uncut with all the restored footage (including the fetus-devouring scene and the last scene, the self-consumption of the entrails). Go to [website] and visit their DVD section. They've got it there, along with dozens of other obscure horror, gore and exploitation flicks. While the DVD that I ordered there has trouble fastforwarding and rewinding, I still have the entire complete footage. The website really is the #1 place to go for anything like this...if they can't do it, none can.
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Summary: Dvd release that you can rent at a video store?
Review: Okay, this butchered version of ANTHRPOPHAGUS:THE BEAST just goes to show how in a hurry DVD companies are willing to put out a film. People not familiar with Joe D'Amato's work shouldn't buy this film. People who already own a copy may want this version for comparision purposes. My advice for people is to either look for an uncut dub copy or try to seek out the Astro DVD version which was released in Germany but sadly is in German with no subtitles.
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Summary: Heavily Censored 'R' Version
Review: Sadly this DVD being offered is the Good , but heavily censored version of 'Anthropophagous The Beast'. While this version is good and has it's moments , it is sadly missing many minutes of footage due to the United Kingdom and the United States moral censors with too much time on their hands!...
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