History Film / TheAnthropophagusBeast

* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Julie fits the bill pretty well, though this is subverted in the final confrontation when a previous victim turns up to be alive and gives a deadly blow to the killer.]]

* BladeOnAStick: A spear is used to kill Vincent.

--> ''It's not fear that tears you apart... it's him!''

D'Amato followed up this film with a pseudo-sequel, ''Film/{{Absurd}}'', also known as ''Zombie 6: Monster Hunter''. In 1999, it had a remake known as ''Anthropophagous 2000'', made by the director of ''Film/ViolentShit'', who somehow managed to make things BloodierAndGorier. The 1981 film ''Porno Holocaust'', also directed by Joe D'Amato and starring George Eastman, is something of a [[ParallelPornTitles Parallel Porn Title]].

* BedmateReveal: Mary discovering Stuart's face has been ripped off.
* BetweenMyLegs: When Nikos finds Marc.

* BoomHeadshot: Agent Bauers's death.

%%* CoitusEnsues: Rita and Marc.

* DeathBySex: Mary and Stuart, and Rita and Marc.
* DeathSeeker: Nikos.
--> "Release me, release me!"
* DestinationDefenestration: The chosen method of suicide for Irena.

* GoIntoTheLight: "We love you, Nikos. Come to us."

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Marc's very ''Film/CannibalHolocaust''-esque death.

* InMemoriam: In memory of Joe D'Amato.
** In memory of Creator/LucioFulci and Creator/DavidWarbeck.

* OffWithHisHead: Vincent, Rita and Nikos's deaths.

* StaircaseTumble: Happens to Georg.

* TraumaticCSection: Caroll's death.

* YourHeadASplode: Agent Bauers's death.

* {{Autocannibalism}}: [[SignatureScene Of course]]. The difference here is he actually survives it.

* AnAxeToGrind: Nikos uses an axe to wound Mary.

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: At least in the dubbed version. Beyond accidentally killing his wife while she tried to prevent him from eating their (dead) son, there's not a whole lot of reason given behind why Klaus likes to kill people.

%%* CatScare

* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: The protagonists find a diary written by a man who shipwrecked on this island with his wife and children, and was forced to kill and eat them to survive.

%%* {{Diary}}: Nikos's journal.

''The Anthropophagus Beast'' (1980) is an Italian {{horror}} {{film}} directed by Joe D'Amato. It was his first "straight" horror film. He had previously made erotic horror films such as ''Emmanuelle in America'' and ''Erotic Nights of the Living Dead''.

* ActingForTwo: Sybille Kohlhase plays both Irena and Auriet.

%%* {{Trope 2000}}

* [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil Poster Spoil]]: The ending is right on the poster as seen above.

%%* SuddenlyVoiced: Nikos.

''The Anthropophagus Beast'' was co-written by D'Amato and Luigi Montefiori, who were long-time associates. Montefiori often co-wrote and held lead roles in D'Amato's films under the pseudonym of George Eastman. He's credited as George Eastman as both the co-writer and star of this movie.

* TragicMonster: Klaus seems to have been intended as one, but due to his lack of character development he just comes off as [[ForTheEvulz being nasty and brutish for the sake of it]].

* ImAHumanitarian: Klaus killed and ate everyone on the island except for the blind girl.

%%* EatsBabies

%%* ImAHumanitarian

%%* TraumaticCSection: See {{Gorn}} above.

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* TheAtoner: The insane sailor believes that killing and eating people will help him atone for doing exactly that to his family. [[TheAloner This is why he has no friends.]]

* {{Autocannibalism}}: Nikos's last dying act is to start gnawing on his own spilled intestines.
* BigBad: Nikos Karamanlis, the cannibal killing everybody.

* {{Gorn}}: One infamous scene involved the antagonist strangling a pregnant woman while he ripped her fetus from her abdomen and ate it. [[spoiler:At the end, when he is mortally wounded with a pickaxe, he starts pulling out his own intestines and munching on them before he dies.]]

%%* WomanInBlack: Irena.