Tisa Farrow added another gory Italian horror film to her resume when she starred in this 1980 shocker from the director of Buried Alive (1979) and Trap Them and Kill Them (1976). Not quite as gory as you'd expect, it's more interested in character development and atmospheric locations. The dubbing is typically atrocious and the opening scene of a young man being meat-cleavered on the beach is unoriginal and amateurish, but there are some surprisingly good moments. The young blind girl who can literally smell the presence of Anthropophagus is fairly clever. Try to see the unedited version, even if the original Monterey Video cover box kicks ass. My score: 5/10
Review of The Grim Reaper
