an group of tourist offer to give an american and julie ( tisa farrow ) and a ride to an island village where pal of hers ( . a french couple we see kill at the opening of the film ) be suppose to be wait for her . decide to remain on the island for a spell and the group find the village without people and provide quite an ominous suspicion that something amiss . when the sailboat they be rid be send away mysteriously into the sea adrift and the group ponder why and hole up in the home of julie friend and await for the night to fall and hop that the boat would return to shore . the remain member of the group do find a person in the village and but she remain elusive warning for them to leave the village . they then find the french couple blind daughter who be deeply traumatized . but and what none of the visitor plan on be encounter a dangerous and psychopathic cannibal ( george eastman and in hideous make up and with unhinged eye . his build work to enhance how scary he look a he approach victim ) without an ounce of humanity . he seem devoid of anything remotely civilize and there a reason reveal later involve his son and wife in a raft isolate in the middle of the ocean . aristide massaccesi ( joe damato ) and george eastman craft quite a sickening tale which have give antropophagus the grim reaper an assure following . antropophagus be the very definition of a slow burner a it idle along show the tourist walk throughout the village ( . model after the greek island and look eerily similar to narciso ibáñez serrador island of the damn ) attempt to find any citizen . i love horror film which show visit outsider find a complete village abandon like a ghost town a if they just vanish off the face of the earth and and see our cast move throughout and find no one certainly work for me . i think this beautifully set up just how monstrous the film predator really be . such a menace that he empty a city of it people . i think massaccesi decision to not show the killer until 50 minute in will test the patience of many and but i felt that the director be build the dread of his arrival . i mean and we know that someone be on this island somewhere and i felt that massaccesi wish to keep him hide for as long a possible . his impact to the film and when he do arrive and be immediately felt when eastman fiend bite a plug of skin from the neck of a victim . he will also bite a chunk of flesh from a throat later in the film when he pull a victim face through the hole of a mansion ceiling . the most infamous death concern the removal of a fetus from a pregnant victim womb ( . massaccesi say it be a rabbit ) take a bite out of it . you also see the aftermath of a cleaver stab into a victim face . massaccesi even pay homage to spielberg with an underwater attack at the very begin reminiscent of jaw . there even the eating of intestine that will leave many jaw drop to the floor in dismay . massaccesi have show ( . a buio omega will prove ) that he isn not afraid of make film with disturb subject matter and scene with ( in ) human behavior that shock . i think the film fine moment occur when massaccesi shoot the use of candle light at night through the darkened room of the french couple home with julie and bodin daniel encounter a frightened innocent hiding from eastman monster and and specifically the roman catacombs where eastman lair of eaten body be locate ( . this be very akin to the work of lucio fulci with the presence of remains and corps and skull and bone and red eyed rat run about ) . the film also have a nifty sequence where julie find a hidden room where eastman sister keep many of his first victim through the breaking of a mirror and in the mansion of a family who work for the village . also and cool be a suicide where a woman decide to hang herself and and julie and at one point and be trap in a gated graveyard by a jealous carol ( zora kerova while who be upset because daniel preferred julie over her ) . a young serena grandi have an early role a the pregnant victim and maggie and who be find by her husband in the catacomb . i think antropophagus be very similar to fulci work at the time ( . from zombie flesh eater into his more sadistic 80 gore flick ) and just a willing to push button and repel weak hearted audience . to those of u who have see a bunch of these movie and though and the impact isn not a severe and but i find his unflinching ability to shock rather amuse . but and i think it can be sense and here and that when inspired and massaccesi can create a sense of atmosphere . with the amazing setting and marcello giombini often haunt music score and and enrico biribicchi lush cinematography and massaccesi have all the tool to make quite an impression . unlike many and i do not have any problem with the pace because my eye be take in the location and how it be bring to the screen . and and eastman be quite an impressive beast .