Also known as: Anthropophagus 2, Zombie 6: Monster Hunter, Horrible, and The Grim Reaper 2.
Perhaps more relevant than Zombie 6: Monster Hunter is the alternate title Anthropophagus 2. That would be because the first Anthropophagus has the same guy in it, George Eastman. Aka Luigi Montefiori, this dude is a veteran of Italian horror, usually in small roles, and I’ve seen him around plenty.
This is also something that could have the alternate title of snagging basically any contemporary slasher and throwing a 2 in back of it. The zombie connection I guess comes from the plot so let’s go.
George Eastman is infected with some disease and goes to the hospital. During his operation he gains consciousness and is drugged up. Then this keeps happening and soon enough it’s clear he’s unkillable and he raises from the dead with a vengeance and stars killings people.
It works like a methodical slasher from that point on, and really it’s like the later Halloween or the later Friday the 13th series where these guys were basically unkillable and/or zombies. It really made me wonder, when they brought Jason and others back as truly unstoppable, was the horror trope they were ripping off truly zombie/undead horror movies there? Interesting. I had always just thought of it as them being creative and jumping the shark, not specific to copying something else
Strange movie, definitely a bit of a one off from everything I’ve seen Anthropophagus is also given the name of a Zombie movie here and there in the world of horror so maybe this is similar to that. I’ll have to watch it again to judge. Some good kills here, some good gore, I’ll give it a 3.5
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