Amazingly enough it would seem that I had never seen this film before. It was banned for a period, then only available in a heavily cut version but my aversion to it was probably more to do with the earlier, Antropophadus. This film also starred the indefatigable, George Eastman (actually Italian despite the anglicised name and seeming of Greek extraction) and apparently involved far too many instances of tumbling entrails and cannibalism than I ever fancied. But maybe I should think again for this is really not at all bad. Eastman is the impressive presence as ever but Edmund Purdom (he of the golden voice and many a voiceover and English dub for gialli) is also impressive, though here, ironically, he delivers his lines with a Greek accent. The pounding score is initially off putting and the film seems slow to get going but there are some fine visceral and brutal scenes with good photography and suspenseful set-ups. The climax is sensational and we have three very good and extremely suspenseful scenes going on at the same time while that score ponds even more heavily.
Review of Absurd
