Also released as
- Antropophagus
- The Grim Reaper
- The Savage Island
- The Grim Ripper
- O Antropófago
- L'anthropophage
- Antropofagia
- Ο ανθρωποφάγος
- Antropófagos
- Antropófago
- Антропофагус
- Gomia, terror en el Mar Egeo
- The Beast
- The Zombie's Rage
- Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper
- Der Menschenfresser
- Man Eater - Der Menschenfresser
- Man-Eater
- Lidožrout
- Anthropophagus
- Man Beast
- Zombie 7
Anthropophagous: The Beast
Anthropophagous: The Beast is a 1980 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.
Famous for two shots and unwatchable between them. George Eastman wrote himself the title role.
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Famous for two shots and close to unwatchable between them.
George Eastman wrote it and cast himself as the title character, a shipwreck survivor who resorted to eating his own family and now lives on a Greek island. Tourists arrive.
The pace is glacial. Long stretches consist of people walking through empty streets calling names, which is partly D'Amato covering a budget and partly a genuine attempt at desolation that does not come off.
The two sequences everybody knows are a pregnancy scene and a final act of self-consumption, both achieved with animal offal, and both are the sole reason the film has a reputation and a DPP listing.
Successfully prosecuted. Eastman and D'Amato reused the lead the following year in Absurd, which is the same film with a hospital in it.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · successfully prosecuted
UK video title Anthropophagous the Beast
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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