My question is this: if Nikos is the bad guy (which he is) and he’s just an insane cannibal, why was he at the bottom of the ocean? From this, I thought it was going to be revealed that he was a supernatural monster, but he’s just a dude. A few moments later, the man is killed via a butcher knife to the face. The girl yells and struggles, but the guy can’t hear her because of the headphones. The camera comes up at her until something attacks her. The camera then gives us a POV shot from deep in the ocean looking up at the girl, not unlike Jaws or Piranha. The guy lies down with headphones on and the girl goes swimming. The very first scene of the movie has two people, a guy and a girl, on the beach of the island. Hannibal Lecter didn’t seem to develop pocks, though. It’s never explained how and why his appearance changed so drastically, though I can imagine eating humans isn’t the best for your skin. Apparently, though, eating your family makes your hair start to fall out, because the flashbacks to the raft definitely show Nikos with a full head of hair compared to when he’s a monster and his hairline has receded to a seven-head. He’s huge, ugly, imposing, doesn’t speak, has a meat cleaver, and eats human beings. Nikos does end up eating both of them before being rescued, but he so lost his mind from this ordeal that he slaughters the entire population of his home island.Īs far as terrifying bad guys in horror movies, Nikos is a pretty good one. Having had no food for days, Nikos goes crazy and attempts to murder and eat his young son, though his wife intervenes and is herself killed. Eventually, it is learned that this man used to be Nikos Karamanlis (co-writer George Eastman), a husband and father who had been shipwrecked with his family and stranded in the middle of the sea in a life raft. One by one, members of the party are killed in increasingly horrible and bloody ways, usually involving a meat cleaver wielded by an ugly balding man who looks, and is, insane. Once on the island, they find it to be entirely deserted, save a creepy deaf woman who lives in a house on the hill. She takes up with a group of well-to-do people heading for an island. Edited versions of this movie exist, but without the hype and the excessive viscera, why would anyone watch it? That’s pretty much why it was made.Īt any rate, the basic story of this ridiculously-named film follows Julie (played by Tisa Farrow, sister of Mia), an American vacationing alone in Greece. But that’s really the only thing it has going for it at all the story is, like most Italian gore flicks, boring and nonsensical. What makes Joe D’Amato’s film Anthropophagus at least a contender is that when it picks up the gore, it really goes for it. The problem I have with the Video Nasties list, aside from its existing at all (if you don’t want your kid seeing a movie, be a more attentive parent), is that most of the movies it singles out as being grotesque and obscene are very low-budget exploitation horror films that are maybe more mean-spirited than some, but certainly nothing to be too bent out of shape about. I don’t think any film should be censored or banned outright, and certainly things like The Evil Dead don’t belong on any such list however, when it comes to today’s Awesomely Bad Movie, the 1980 Italian film Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper, I feel like a decent case could be made, and was. As a result, 72 films were labeled “Video Nasties,” and 39 were successfully prosecuted in criminal court and banned. This led to a huge public debate on whether these films were obscene and could cause harm to the minds of children. Films that needed to be cut down for theatrical release could be put out on video totally unedited, but still emblazoned with the rating issued for the edited version. In Britain in the 1980s, horror movies got taken to court.
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