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Credits

Director: Joe D'Amato Starring: Tisa Farrow, Vanessa Steiger, Zora Kerova, George Eastman Screenplay: Joe D'Amato, George Eastman Music: Marcello Giombini Country: Italy AKA: Antropophagus; Anthropophagous: The Beast; The Grim Reaper; Antropofago

This film, Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper aka Anthropophagus: The Beast aka The Grim Reaper etc was labelled a video nasty by the BBFC in the early eighties, and has a history of notoriety that no amount of paid publicity could ever garner, and has been cleaned up and released in a delicious 2 disc set by Shriek Show.

Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper tells of a group of tourists, Julie (Tisa Farrow), Andy (Saverio Vallone), the VERY pregnant Maggie (Vanessa Steiger" - better known as Serena Grandi), Danny (Mark Bodin), Carol (Zora Kerova) and Arnold (Bob Larson), who stop their boat on a small island to drop one of their party off, and to take a look around. They find the island deserted though, the streets of the small town empty, as if everyone just disappeared. They split up to try and figure out what is going on, and two of the party pursue a woman they see walking the streets (Rubina Rey), but to no avail. Eventually, as you would expect in a horror movie, the party becomes trapped on the island, and something starts to hunt them. Something with a craving for human flesh….

Disc 1 has a selection of various trailers for Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper (9 minutes 45 seconds), and under just some of its aliases: Antropophagus, The Savage Island, Anthropophagus the Beast and The Grim Reaper. Disc 1 also has trailers for other Shriek Show films: Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (2 minutes 12 seconds), The Being (1 minute 38 seconds), Just Before Dawn (2 minutes 4 seconds) and Shadow: Dead Riot (2 minutes 35 seconds).

Disc 2 has a great selection of extras.

Totally Uncut 2 (1 hour 7 minutes) which is a continuation of a documentary about D'Amato that started in Totally Uncut, which can be found on the Shriek Show DVD release of Images in a Convent. This is presented in Italian with English subtitles, but there isn't a menu option for English, so you shall finally get to use that little 'Subtitle' button on your DVD remote control. Not a bad little doco, but at times it feels like you have walked in on a conversation halfway, mainly due to its 'Part 2' status. The counter though is that this doco has a lot of footage from other D'Amato films, and most of them feature boobies.

Spilling Their Guts (11 minutes 36 seconds) is a selection of highlights from an interview with George Eastman and Zora Kerova. They talk about their experiences in filmmaking, with Eastman mainly talking about D'Amato while Kerova talks about her experiences in reference to her work with Lucio Fulci.

Alternate U.S. Theatrical Opening features 2 American titles sequences: one for this film titled 'The Grim Reaper' (1 minute 8 seconds, which feels more like the opening sequence of an episode of The A Team, and the second one for 'The Savage Island' (1 minute 43 seconds), which is basically the same title sequence as the film presented on this DVD, but in English.

The Photo Gallery is a slide show of promotional material that runs for 1 minute and 42 seconds.