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Anthropophagous 4K Ultra HD

Joe D'Amato (Director), Tisa Farrow (Actor), Saverio Vallone (Actor) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: Blu-ray
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Genre Horror, World Cinema
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Contributor Tisa Farrow, Saverio Vallone, Serena Grandi, Joe D'Amato
Language Italian
Runtime 1 hour and 32 minutes

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Perhaps the most notorious ‘video nasty’ of all time, ANTHROPOPHAGOUS is back to deprave and corrupt a fresh wave of horror film viewers! Joe D’Amato cemented himself into genre film history with this slickly directed, and sinisterly suspenseful, creature feature which has some unprepared tourists arriving on a desolate Mediterranean island – only to find themselves stalked by a silent cannibalistic Neanderthal! Featuring gory special effects, that convinced some British moral guardians that ANTHROPOPHAGOUS was a legitimate ‘snuff movie’, there is little doubting that this timeless terror totem still holds up today. Also boasting a cast of genre legends, such as Tisa Farrow (ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS), Zora Kerova (CANNIBAL FEROX) and George Eastman (RABID DOGS), 88 Films is proud to present ANTHROPOPHAGOUS, fully uncut and uncensored, and re-mastered in 4K from the original 16mm Camera Negative.

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  • Rated ‏ : ‎ Suitable for 18 years and over
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Italian
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1.7 x 16.99 x 13.46 cm; 110 g
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Joe D'Amato
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ 4K
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 32 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ 8 July 2024
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Tisa Farrow, Saverio Vallone, Serena Grandi
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ 88 Films
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CVNHJSBM
  • Country of origin ‏ : ‎ Poland
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer reviews:
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A satisfyingly digestible 4K presentation of this infamous gut-muncher
3 out of 5 stars
A satisfyingly digestible 4K presentation of this infamous gut-muncher
This notorious Italian "Nasty" from 1980 may be quite infamous due to a couple of revolting moments of gore featured during the proceedings, but for a good hour it's a fairly uneventful slog. It develops quite an eerie atmosphere at times with scenes of a seemingly deserted small Greek island where dead bodies keep getting found by our small group of visiting tourists who are being stalked by a monstrous looking deformed maniac (who gets far too little screen time). But it's not until the last 20 minutes that the more memorable and noteworthy disturbing highlights begin to occur. It's just a little too slow for its own good but it's not without it's merits.Anthropophagous is making it's 4K UHD debut here from 88 Films and surprisingly it has turned out better than expected, especially considering it was originally shot on 16mm. Featuring a remastered scan from the original negatives which despite quite heavy grain throughout still reveals a definite improvement in noticeable fine detail and sharpness over previous Blu-ray and DVD releases. Colours look much nicer and natural too, the reds might be very slightly oversaturated but nothing too unsightly. What were a bit unsightly though were the odd occurrences of staining and other minor anomalies that would show up on screen, but these were very brief and too few to really tarnish the viewing experience. The opening scene of the movie which features German dialogue is accompanied by English subtitles BUT you must manually turn them on as they don't flash up by default which might bother some.There's a good amount of extra features also to check out on the disc but disappointingly no inclusion of a booklet and poster which has been standard for initial pressings of the 88 Films Italian 4K collection, those extra bits have been restricted to the overly priced 88 Films store exclusive release for this and the upcoming 4K release of ABSURD which is a very disappointing move by the company. But overall I'd say this restoration has been a success.
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  • Gizzy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Joe D’Amato and George Eastman doing what they excel at.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2024
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    Joe D’Amato and George Eastman teamed up several times over the years, bringing some of the most notorious movies ever made to the screen. This is one of them.
    Presented here, uncut again at long last. It’s not as nasty as it appeared way back in the 80s. It’s well paced and well made. Several Cult names appear here. If you’re into this sort of film, there’s nothing I can say you won’t know already.
    It’s stalk and slash. For those who don’t know it. Pretty violent in places. At one time, there were some people who for some unexplainable reason thought this was a snuff movie??? It isn’t. What it is, is a good film well worth owning if you like Cult Horror Films.
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  • Lemmy
    4.0 out of 5 stars What did he do to that woman !
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 August 2024
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    Love this movie, George Eastman plays a great Zombie like Cannibal in this bloody, gory carnage fest. It lost a star for being a a bit of a slow burner but the kills make up for it
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  • Peter Dalziel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Well nows your chance with this excellent release on Bluray
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 December 2015
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    This is one of those notorious video nasties that you might have heard of but never had the chance to see.
    Well nows your chance with this excellent release on Bluray.
    The picture and sound quality will never be perfect but the original source material probably wasn't that great to begin with.
    That said, this is a very decent presentation of this gorey little shocker.
    Tourists on a cruising holiday land on a seemingly deserted Greek island only to find that the entire population has fallen foul of a mad ghoulish cannibal, and I must say, what an appetite he must have!
    Great location for this film and it is well paced too with genuine creepiness.
    Theres a great documentary on the disc as well which is all about the sleazy Times square movie houses in New York and the kind of movies they used to show back in the day.
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  • TheMovieDude
    3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre release
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 February 2016
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    One of the films that made me feel like an absolute badass as a kid. That gory front cover in my collection. All my friends staring in intrigue and disgust whenever they came to my house for tea, and then not eating their tea. After all these years, it holds up as a great exploitation film by Joe D'Amato.

    So why 3 stars? I'm glad 88films are putting out some of the dirtiest movies around, which I personally adore and continue to collect to feed my addiction on blu ray. But their transfers are very hit and miss. A majority of the slasher releases in the red cases have very good, clean and stable transfers. But titles from the Italian collection, like this, Emanuelle & The Last Cannibals, A Blade In The Dark. They're very messy looking. And whilst being a step up from the DVD's, they still don't look good enough by a long shot. Blacks turn green, colors merge together, and the image just looks blurry. Unnaturally blurry.

    I still say pick this up for the film and the 42 street documentary, and if you're a collector or a film lover in general, this is still the next best thing. However, it must stress, that it is far from perfect. I'm hoping that once 88films gets more of a following and end up bringing in more money, that they revisit some of these titles and clean them up properly.
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  • John David Kenneth cameron
    5.0 out of 5 stars 4k upgrade
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 May 2017
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    Hard to believe not to long ago the prospect of a 4k release of this video nasty would be far fetched but here it is packed with extras 4k uhd disc and the Blu-ray looks and sounds fantastic it obviously has its limitations from what was available but a marked improvement from earlier releases
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  • MIMSY WHIFF
    4.0 out of 5 stars Decent Print of the Unsavoury
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2015
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    I don't mind the film but I do have a tendency to snooze as some of the bulky duration just means we see people wandering around a house in a thunderstorm - too often. However when the gruel happens it is an unflinching wallop in the guts. Can see why it got 1980's Daily Mail readers in a fluster , even though 99% didn't actually see it. A worthwhile watch and addition to the Video nasty hysteria generated by an old school tory government back in the day. Worth watching for the foetus chomping scene alone - a perfect exercise in schlock, bad taste and , for it's time, boundary pushing to see how nauseous a movie can make the viewer - to think the police at the time thought it was a snuff movie - hahahaha. I love it ! 88 Films triumphs again in trms of print and package - thank you !!
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  • Miroslav Filipov
    5.0 out of 5 stars CLASSIC
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 January 2016
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    The item came really fast, in perfect condition.Everything is as described.
    The story is great - real fun,picture quality is perfect.100 % entertainment.The price is cheap so, don't hesitate - BUY IT NOW!
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  • c j anders
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good nostalgia from back in the day
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 September 2016
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    ex video nasty, What was all the fuss about in the 1980's.Good nostalgia from back in the day.
    A fine release from 88 films.
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  • Dimitrios
    5.0 out of 5 stars Antropophagus 4k blu ray
    Reviewed in Italy on 10 October 2024
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    Ottimo 4k restauro da paura, non può mancare in una collezione che si rispecchia, per un cinefilo horror direi Consigliato!!!
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  • Marcel Janouch
    1.0 out of 5 stars Geschnitten braucht den niemand !
    Reviewed in Germany on 18 September 2024
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    Schade dass die uncut Version wohl erst dieses Jahr erscheinen soll...!
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  • Jezz
    3.0 out of 5 stars Buena calidad de imagen
    Reviewed in Spain on 8 September 2024
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    Muy caro. Y pocos lenguajes.
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  • satisfiedcustomer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari shot in color!
    Reviewed in the United States on 19 November 2019
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    Joe D’Amato can roughly be described as a disillusioned and contemptuous “art” film director at heart, who achieved two purposes throughout his career, inadvertently and solely out of spite. On the one hand, he was able to make a living out of film-making by using a “guerrilla,” ultra- stingy, cheap (as in Ebenezer Scrooge) approach way before the term was coined and became a sales pitch with hipsters and scholars and the “artists” serving them...

    On the other, driven by resentment and revenge (presumably from audiences, producers and investors not appreciating his truly groundbreaking Death Smiles at a Murderer), he would throw together not only dissimilar, but totally opposite elements in his films, especially zombies, cannibals and snuff film dealers into his softcore porn efforts. He would wind out not satisfying neither horror, erotic or whatever film audience. For a long time his films were considered amongst the worst ever made.

    However, he could never conceal the fact that he was one of the most accomplished photographers in Italian cinema and his overall outstanding filmmaking chops, developing an audience all his own overtime and getting his revenge after all. A self- assumed “revolutionary” artist’s ego is probably the last thing one should mess with... I figure his grudge against those back and front of the silver screen was such, he even became a producer himself!!!!!

    So the cover, fashioned after one of the many memorable sequences in the film, couldn't be more self- explanatory...

    Even though there’s absolutely nothing erotic about this film, I consider this one of such films he devised to deliberately confuse audiences and give the impression of cancelling one direction with the opposite one. Another example in D’Amato‘s non- Black Emmanuelle catalogue would be Though to Kill (1979). The absolute epitome in his “ouvre” and perhaps world cinema in general is, no doubt in my mind, Endgame (1983)...

    So, in summary, Anthropophagus, D’Amato’s entry in the Golden Age of Italian horror (79-80), is a tediously slow- burning and flawed slasher by almost every standard of the genre on the surface. In reality, is a very late entry into German- style impressionism, right up there with Dr. Caligari or Dreyer’s Vampyr, only shot in color, IMHO.

    In addition, the gore set pieces, even though far in between, are the ultimate measure for vileness for those that came and keep coming afterwards, as can be said of its sequel Absurd, also released by Severin. Of course, there’s the Hatchet franchise, but one thing is doing something that wasn’t done before, - for whatever purpose; D'Amato is though to figure out! -, and another, easier one is to outdo it. Hopefully, you’ll see the difference...

    The apparent total absence of a script and the snail-like pace allows the viewer willing to look past the promise of a slasher some extremely accomplished lighting, perspective and scenery compositions made through pure ingenuity. D’Amato’s pulse was steady enough, -and his miserliness so huge- to have employed any kind of expensive machinery other than the camera. The result is a vision among the very few in memory to be reckoned with as out of a real bad dream!

    Some reviewers have covered this in greater detail, so I’ll just give my opinion on this very quickly: This is the best this movie has ever looked (the title sequence reads something different; Savage Island, or something like that). However, if you own the Shriek Show/Media Blasters double disc, DVD version of this, despite the flaws, I wouldn’t get rid of it.

    Severin’s outing includes insightful interviews with indispensable sleazeball and long- time D’Amato collaborator George Eastman, who calls those of us who appreciate what's probably his most widely seen output "imbeciles." That's what makes him one of the most memorable douche- bags in this kind of movie and that's why we all love him (too)!

    Also, there's this movie memorable “hero” Saverio Vallone, multitasking by giving his adorable pup a serious belly rub (which I myself do) while answering questions. However, the most insightful intreviews are Bruno Micheli's, who aided his sister Ornella in the editing of this film, and master Special FX man Pietro Tenoglio, whose work here and in Absurd was nothing short of creative, effective and sublime. It's truly withstood the test of time and has nothing to envy Savini, Stivaletti, Nicotero and Kurtzman or any of those big, bad familiar names!

    Even though Czech actress Zora Kerowa gave her best interview ever in Blue Underground's outing of Fulci's NY Ripper, she's very open and no- nonsense about her experiences with fellow actors and the making of projects she was involved with.

    In summary, just like with Absurd or anything Severin has put out by D'Amato, this is overflowing with extras; all of them superb. Finally somebody realizes the attention and care some of D'Amato's unique works calls for!

    Beware, you won't again ever see Pajata or Hare Stew the same way again!

    If there ever was a mad genius, D’Amato’s it. I mean, this was done before and without any of the pretense Gaspar Noe’ or Lars Von Triers put in their films; before “provocation” and "controversy" acquired currency status for inclusion in the Cannes or Sundance rosters and glorified remakes of I Drink Your Blood populated them, like Noe’s Climax. Well, if that makes younger generations feel smarter.. but if only they knew! "Auteur" cinema? If this isn't it, I don't know what else would be! C'mon!!!! That's nothing but "kitsch"in comparison !!!!
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  • Germain Isabelle
    5.0 out of 5 stars ANTHROPOPHAGOUS
    Reviewed in France on 5 March 2015
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    bon film dommage qu'on voit qu'a la fin qu'il mange ses tripes, j'aurais cru qu'il y avais plus de gore que ça
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