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DPP 72cult
Director
Joe D'Amato
Year
1981
Country
Italy
Runtime
93 min

Also released as

  • Rosso sangue
  • Horrible
  • Anthropophagous 2
  • Monster Hunter
  • Absurd - Ausgeburt der Hölle
  • Psychose infernale
  • Κόκκινο Αίμα
  • A pokol szülötte
  • 女は娼婦
  • Absurdo
  • Maldición satánica
  • Z piekla rodem
  • Terror Sem Limites
  • Антропофагус 2
  • Terror sin límite
  • Absurd: Terror sin límite
  • Ausgeburt der Hölle
  • Apsurd u stravicnoj noci
  • Абсурд
  • Антропофаг 2
  • Zombie 6: Monster Hunter
  • 血色恶魔

Absurd

Absurd is a 1981 Italian slasher film directed by Joe D'Amato. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, and it was successfully prosecuted for obscenity.

D'Amato remaking his own Anthropophagous as a Halloween knock-off. Grim and dull in equal measure.

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D'Amato remaking his own Anthropophagous as a Halloween knock-off, with the same lead, in the same year the original was still circulating.

A man with regenerating tissue escapes a hospital and spends the night trying to get into a house where a babysitter is minding two children while their parents go to a party. The debt is not disguised.

George Eastman wrote it and cast himself as the killer again, which he did with some regularity.

There are two or three effects the film is remembered for, and the ninety minutes around them are shapeless. It was one of the 39 successfully prosecuted, and there is a Greek cut with different footage that collectors argue about.

Historically interesting, hard to sit through.

Banned, seized, prosecuted

DPP 72 · successfully prosecuted

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