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8	-> ''It's not fear that tears you apart... it's him!''
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10	Imagine you are on vacation. You and your friends have picked out a lovely Greek island to stay at, with beautiful scenery, beaches to stroll along, and plenty of opportunity to just relax, without a care in the world. However, this remote island is not the paradise it seems. It is strangely uninhabited, save for a blind girl who doesn't know what happened to everyone else. However, there is one other here: a man the girl says smells of blood. And for him, it is now dinnertime.
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12	''The Anthropophagus Beast'' (1980) is an Italian {{horror}} {{film}} directed by Creator/JoeDAmato. 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''.
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14	''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 Creator/GeorgeEastman. He's credited as George Eastman as both the co-writer and star of this movie.
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16	The film also starred Tisa Farrow (sister of Mia), Saverio Vallone, Margaret Donnelly, Vanessa Steiger, Mark Bodin, Bob Larsen, Simone Baker, Mark Logan, Rubina Rey and Zora Kerova.
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18	In the documentary ''Totally Uncut 2'' D'Amato stated that the film was solely made for foreign markets; both the director and Montefiore claim that even though the film did very well in other countries it was a flop in Italy. Montefiore also revealed that he has never liked the film, though he did enjoy making it.
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20	D'Amato followed up this film with a pseudo-sequel, ''Film/Absurd1981'', 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]].
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23	!!This film contains examples of the following tropes:
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25	* AnyoneCanDie: Only two people survive to the ending credits. [[spoiler:Neither of them is the blind girl or the pregnant woman.]]
26	* TheAtoner: The insane sailor Klaus Wortmann 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.]]
27	* {{Autocannibalism}}: Klaus's last dying act is to start gnawing on his own spilled intestines.
28	* BigBad: Klaus Wortmann, the cannibal killing everybody.
29	* CatScare: While searching a basement, a kitten jumps down from the ceiling and onto the piano.
30	* CreatorCameo: Creator/JoeDAmato is seen exiting a cable car.
31	* DisproportionateRetribution: ''And'' MisplacedRetribution. Carol locks Julie up in a cemetery because she saw her husband attempting to cheat on her. Never mind that Julie tried to talk him out of it. Which eventually leads to...
32	* EasilyForgiven: Carol apologizes to Julie for her attitude towards her, and Julie is quick to accept the apology.
33	* EatsBabies: Klaus eats a woman's unborn child in the film's most infamous scene.
34	* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Julie fits the bill pretty well, though this is downplayed in the final confrontation when a previous victim turns up to be alive and gives a deadly blow to the killer.]]
35	* GenericDoomsdayVillain: 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.
36	* {{Gorn}}: One infamous scene involved Klaus 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.]]
37	* GratuitousGreek: The title derives from the Greek word for "man-eater."
38	* ImAHumanitarian: Klaus killed and ate everyone on the island except for the blind girl, and now intends to add the protagonists to his menu.
39	* MarketBasedTitle: The film goes by a different title depending on its market and cut, i.e. ''Anthropophagous'', ''Anthropophagous: The Beast'', ''The Grim Reaper'', and even ''Zombie 7''.
40	* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: The protagonists find a diary written by a man who shipwrecked on this island with his wife and child, and was forced to kill and eat them to survive.
41	* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:In the end, the pregnant lady's husband, who we last saw getting impaled with a machete, not only turns out to have survived, but is the one who kills the killer in the end.]]
42	* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:The killer learns the hard way that the pregnant woman's husband is ''not'' happy that his wife and unborn child were murdered.]]
43	* SpoilerCover: The ending is right on the poster as seen above.
44	* TragicMonster: Klaus seems to have been intended as one, but due to his [[FlatCharacter lack of character development]] he just comes off as [[ForTheEvulz being nasty and brutish for the sake of it]].
45	%%* SlashedThroat
46	* TraumaticCSection: The infamous scene where Klaus rips the pregnant woman's unborn child from her womb and eats it.
47	* VideoNasties: The video has weathered a bit of controversy due to its grisly content.
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49	!! The remake:
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51	* AccidentalMurder: Nikos accidentally stabbing Martha.
52	%%* AdaptationExpansion
53	* AnArmAndALeg: Hank has an arm ripped off by Nikos.
54	* AndStarring: Special appearance by Andreas Schnaas as Nikos Karamanlis.
55	%%* AsHimself: Fanni the Cat.
56	%%* {{Autocannibalism}}: The difference here is he actually survives it.
57	%%* AxCrazy
58	* BeachBury: Nikos buries himself in the sand in order to ambush Mary.
59	%%* BeardOfEvil
60	%%* BedmateReveal: Mary discovering Stuart's face has been ripped off.
61	%%* BetweenMyLegs: When Nikos finds Marc.
62	%%* BloodierAndGorier
63	* BodyHorror: The sun and salt water destroyed Nikos's skin.
64	%%* BoomHeadshot: Agent Bauers's death.
65	* BreastAttack: Nikos devours one of Martha's breasts.
66	%%* BuryYourDisabled: Auriet.
67	* CameraAbuse: Blood splashes all over the camera while Nikos is beating Allan.
68	%%* CarpetOfVirility: Stuart and Marc.
69	* CatScare: A cat jumping on a piano.
70	%%* ChainedByFashion: Mary.
71	%%* CobwebJungle
72	* CoincidentalBroadcast: Except with newspapers, one of which bears the headline "Maniac Terminates Village".
73	%%* CouldntFindAPen: Go Away.
74	%%* CrazyHomelessPeople: The Vagabound.
75	%%* CreepyBasement
76	* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Hank is killed searching for Allan, Marc and Stan looking for Vincent and Caroll, and Auriet looking for Marc.
77	%%* CuteKitten: Fanni.
78	%%* DeathSeeker: Nikos.
79	%%--> "Release me, release me!"
80	%%* DestinationDefenestration: The chosen method of suicide for Irena.
81	* {{Determinator}}: Nikos keeps going, even after being shot several times, and disemboweled.
82	%%* DontGoInTheWoods
83	%%* DrivenToSuicide: Irena.
84	* EarAche: Nikos bites off one of Stan's ears.
85	%%* EatsBabies: Nikos.
86	%%* EmergingFromTheShadows: Nikos.
87	%%* EvilMakesYouMonstrous
88	%%* ExtremelyDustyHome
89	%%* FacialHorror: Lots.
90	%%* FadeToBlack
91	* {{Fingore}}: Mary has some fingers chopped off by Nikos.
92	* FlashbackWithinAFlashback: Nikos recalling being lost at sea with his wife, and dead daughter.
93	%%* ForeignRemake
94	* FramingDevice: Interpol agent Steven Bauers finding Nikos's journal.
95	--> "Time has no meaning anymore. Here it begins and ends... the story of the Karamanlis family."
96	* GainaxEnding: Agent Bauers wonders how Nikos's journal got into the cave, and could be so thorough. He then finds Georg's cell phone, and is randomly shot in the face by an unseen assailant.
97	%%* GhostTown
98	%%* GoIntoTheLight: "We love you, Nikos. Come to us."
99	%%* {{Gorn}}
100	%%* GratuitousEnglish
101	%%* GuttedLikeAFish: Hank, Allan and Nikos.
102	%%* HandOfDeath
103	%%* HearingVoices: Nikos.
104	%%* HighPressureBlood
105	* HopeSpot: Marc running into Stan, and Georg and Rita finding the RV and cell phone.
106	* HorrorHunger: "Since then I need meat. Lots of meat from animals, but that doesn't stop my craving for blood. Red like blood, red - the color of the love. It's hard to describe the pain that's tearing me apart. It's like an eternal flame... an eternal hellfire...
107	%%* HostileWeather
108	%%* ImAHumanitarian
109	%%* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Marc's very ''Film/CannibalHolocaust''-esque death.
110	* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Vincent is speared through the neck, then decapitated.
111	* ImprovisedWeapon: Nikos uses a rock to incapacitate Allan, and another de-fetus Caroll.
112	%%* JitterCam
113	* MacheteMayhem: Nikos uses a machete to kill Stan.
114	%%* MadeOfPlasticine
115	* ManBitesMan: Nikos bites Stan's ear off, and rips Auriet's throat out.
116	%%* MenacingStroll
117	%%* MurdererPOV
118	* MyCarHatesMe: "Maybe we ran out of gas or whatever. I don't know, it's not my fault. Fucking weather."
119	%%* NerdyInhaler: Marc.
120	%%* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty
121	%%* OffscreenTeleportation: Nikos.
122	%%* OffWithHisHead: Vincent, Rita and Nikos's deaths.
123	%%* OverdrawnAtTheBloodbank
124	* PeekABooCorpse: Caroll opens the hood of the RV to discover Vincent's head.
125	%%* ProphetEyes: Auriet.
126	%%* RedShirt: Mary, Stuart, Hank and Allan.
127	%%* RightThroughHisPants: Mary and Stuart.
128	%%* ShirtlessScene: Stuart and Marc.
129	* ShovelStrike: Georg uses a shovel to bludgeon and behead Nikos.
130	* SickeningCrunch: Hank's arm being snapped in half by Nikos, and Auriet having her back broken.
131	%%* SinisterSilhouettes
132	%%* SmokingHotSex: Rita.
133	%%* StaircaseTumble: Happens to Georg.
134	%%* ThoseTwoGuys: Hank and Allan.
135	%%* TraumaticCSection: Caroll's death.
136	%%* TwistedAnkle: Caroll.
137	%%* VomitingCop: An Interpol agent.
138	* VomitIndiscretionShot: One of the Interpol agents vomits while looking through the corpse-filled cave, and Caroll gets road sick.
139	* WouldHurtAChild: The ripped out baby moves and cries before being eaten by Nikos.
140	%%* YourHeadASplode: Agent Bauers's death.
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