Fleuron du Bis transalpin, Anthropophagous n'est rien moins qu'une énième variation sur le thème du croquemitaine, reformatée pour un public adulte. Un village isolé au bord de la mer Égée. Un groupe d'infortunés touristes. Un ogre affamé. Et hop le tour est joué ! Le croquemitaine a faim alors il mange. C'est bien connu, la faim justifie les moyens. Ça tombe mal, car des moyens, l'inénarrable Joe d'Amato n'en a pas beaucoup. Mais le réalisateur d'Emmanuelle et les derniers cannibales parvient quand même à instaurer une sinistre ambiance contre balancée par une musique aussi loufoque que décalée et se paye même le luxe de graver les mémoires lors de deux séquences authentiquement grotesques. Bon appétit !

1980, Italie, 90 min, Couleurs

Réalisation Joe D'Amato
Scénario Joe D'Amato, George Eastman
Photographie Enrico Biribicchi
Interprétation George Eastman, Tisa Farrow, Serena Grandi

Interdit à sa sortie aux moins de 16 ans

Diffusion à La Cinémathèque de Toulouse : 25 avril 2006, 26 avril 2006.

Film censuré - ou a subi des coupures sévères - dans plusieurs pays : Norvège (interdit), Royaume Uni (interdit).

A group of tourists arrive on a small Greek island, only to find it almost completely deserted. It seems that the only person still alive there is a blind girl who does not know what has happened to the rest of the town, but is terrified of a man who she describes as smelling of blood.

As members of the group disappear or are murdered by a mysterious man, the survivors search for clues as to what is going on. They find a diary, which tells the story of a man who was shipwrecked with his wife and child. In order to survive, the man was forced to eat his dead family. This act drove him insane and he went on to decimate the rest of the island's inhabitants.

In the film's most notorious scene, the killer strangles a heavily-pregnant woman, and then pulls the fetus from between her legs and proceeds to eat it.

In the end the killer is dispatched by means of an axe to the stomach, but before he dies he attempts to devour himself, chewing violently on his own intestines before finally dying.

Directed by Joe d'Amato
Produced by Joe d'Amato, George Eastman
Written by Joe d'Amato, George Eastman
Starring Tisa Farrow, George Eastman, Saverio Vallone
Music by Marcello Giombini
Distributed by Shriekshow Entertainment
Release date 1980
Language Italian

Also Known As:
Anthropophagous: The Beast (UK) (video title)
Antropofago (Italy)
Man Beast
The Grim Reaper (USA) (censored version)
The Savage Island
The Zombie's Rage (USA) (reissue title)
Runtime: 90 min / USA:87 min (R-rated version)
Country: Italy
Color: Color (Eastmancolor)
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: Italy:VM18 / Norway:(Banned) / UK:(Banned) (1984-2002) / UK:18 (heavily cut) / USA:R (heavily cut) / USA:Unrated (uncut) / Finland:K-18 / West Germany:(Banned) / Australia:R / France:-16 / Singapore:PG / Canada:18+ (Quebec) / Canada:R