Anthropophagous

Un choquant hors-d'œuvre qui se distingue par son emplacement inhabituel sur une île grecque isolée, une bande-son atmosphérique puissante, un tueur effrayant et un à deux actes extrêmement brutaux et répugnants qui en font un classique du genre. Un courageux navet d'horreur italien et un visage irrésistiblement original. (16/05/2021)

Nothing happens for a long, long time in the beginning, and even after the cannibal first appears, it's hard to talk about anything shocking, or at least suspenseful. It’s just a borefest, and the awful keyboard claps do get on your nerves. In the last twenty minutes D’Amato kicks things up a bit, there are two "appetizing" scenes, and the "dessert" with a human fetus is really very creepy. Oh, by the way, George Eastman, the cannibal is really handsome. I'm surprised I've never seen him on a teen-mag poster, I'm sure there would be a spot on the wall of a lovelorn fifteen year old's room :) (21/09/2003)

It was watchable, yeah, but I would have liked a bit more action and gore. Those couple of scenes are really good, but they are too few and the first half of the film feels quite empty. What’s great is the atmosphere full of uncertainty and fear about the things to come, but the music score is annoying, like in most Italian horror. (25/08/2008)

Awful horror garbage recommended as a manual by seven out of ten cannibals and zero out of ten filmmakers. I can accept the stupid music, but the constantly stagnant events and the absence of any memorable scenes (perhaps with the exception of the very last one) are marked. Compared to this, the degenerate Cannibal Holocaust is a piece of intellectual filmmaking. (13/02/2019)

The moment when the murderer appears on the scene and we see him for the first time is really well done, and horror falls upon the viewer, which is associated with this revelation. Literally like the birth of a beast, which also immediately shows off. The film doesn't overdo it unnecessarily, doesn't explain unnecessarily, and it won me over with that. It's not a brilliant horror, but from an Italian production, it is definitely something worth paying attention to. It may look ordinary, but you can feel that horror was truly the primary focus. Even the gore is not as ubiquitous as one might expect, but it is chosen in the right measure. (07/01/2014)