Also known as The Grim Reaper, Zombie 7, and The Savage Island.
Gorefests like this also fall into my long ago project of watching Video Nasties, which could very well be my next series...hmmm...I do remember wanting to watch all of them.
Anthropophagus is a made up word essentially combining words for human and eating, meaning human eater. Rarely does a made up word sound so legitimate and good, and its a good level place to start from for this movie, a low budget and insane gorefests which somehow consistently overachieves.
Its perhaps because of minimal scope, in a setup that is often seen but I still like. Couple of people come to a small remote community, everyone is either standoffish or completely absent and the mystery builds. Its slasher-esque in having some continual deaths while we build mystery and finally the killer is full on after our main characters and he's a bloody freakish weirdo played by George Eastman.
In the strictest sense this is the least "Zombie" movie as he is never stated to be undead and is instead a freaky cannibal man who is truly monstrous sure, but no zombie. He does some insane shit, and this movie is known for the scene where he rips a baby out of a woman's vagina and eats the fetus. Gooood stuff.
So minimal in scope and lots of gore keep this thing movie, and it elevates as a decent entry into the franchise and really more of a slasher than I expected. 4 stars.
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