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A group of friends and a hitchhiker become stranded on a tourist island where they are stalked by a disfigured cannibalistic killer who is prowling the island after killing its residents.A group of friends and a hitchhiker become stranded on a tourist island where they are stalked by a disfigured cannibalistic killer who is prowling the island after killing its residents.A group of friends and a hitchhiker become stranded on a tourist island where they are stalked by a disfigured cannibalistic killer who is prowling the island after killing its residents.
Serena Grandi
- Maggie
- (as Vanessa Steiger)
Margaret Mazzantini
- Henriette 'Rita'
- (as Margaret Donnelly)
Joe D'Amato
- Bearded man exiting the cable car
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaLuigi Montefiori, aka George Eastman, who co-wrote, co-produced, and portrayed the disfigured cannibalistic serial killer Klaus Wortmann stated that when he went to the premier at the old Cinema Metropolitan in Rome with the producer, only a few people were in the theater watching. During the movie people kept walking out until only a single couple remained. Later, during the scene where the pregnant woman was strangled and had her fetus ripped out of her, the couple got up and walked out offended. (In real life the effect was achieved using a skinned rabbit, and was something new and very disturbing for the time.) Montefiori and the producer ended up the only ones left watching the rest of the film.
- GoofsLaughably obvious false head of Ashab.
- Alternate versionsThe only version ever submitted in the UK is the heavily edited R-rated print known as "The Grim Reaper". This version is missing the sequence where the creature devours the fetus plus the climactic scene where he attempts to eat his own entrails (the film ends abruptly after he is stabbed with the axe).
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Hyena (1997)
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I first saw this in the mid 80s on a vhs.
Revisited it recently on YouTube.
The picture quality is good n its the uncut version.
The movie starts with a brutal meat cleaver scene then becomes very slow n downright tedious. After that for almost one hour nothing happens.
The rubber mask head n the intestines r unintentionally funny.
The last twenty mins contains the two nasty scenes coz of which this film earned the video nasty label. The cinematography is good. The island location is able to capture an eerie atmosphere. The abandoned town, the alleys n the cemetery added to it's creepiness but the end product is boring.
The killer's tilted bald head is actually laughable. Eastman in a non dialogue role is a big lol.
In one scene while the killer is munching on the fetus, one character is shown injured but what happens to that character is never explained. In another scene the killer spares the blind girl. Wtf man. In the well scene, a hand suddenly pops up n pulls a girl inside. The well is more than half empty n i cant understand how the killer is able to come up n pull the girl into the well and in the next scene he is in the water which is much further down.
The movie starts with a brutal meat cleaver scene then becomes very slow n downright tedious. After that for almost one hour nothing happens.
The rubber mask head n the intestines r unintentionally funny.
The last twenty mins contains the two nasty scenes coz of which this film earned the video nasty label. The cinematography is good. The island location is able to capture an eerie atmosphere. The abandoned town, the alleys n the cemetery added to it's creepiness but the end product is boring.
The killer's tilted bald head is actually laughable. Eastman in a non dialogue role is a big lol.
In one scene while the killer is munching on the fetus, one character is shown injured but what happens to that character is never explained. In another scene the killer spares the blind girl. Wtf man. In the well scene, a hand suddenly pops up n pulls a girl inside. The well is more than half empty n i cant understand how the killer is able to come up n pull the girl into the well and in the next scene he is in the water which is much further down.
- Fella_shibby
- Oct 6, 2018
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- The Grim Reaper
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- Athens, Greece(location scene)
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