Here is the sequel to Anthropophagous and guess what, this one also made the video nasty list too. In fairness, this is practically a sequel in name only, with the intimidating actor George Eastman reprising his role as the central psychopath but this time he is not a rotting monster but simply gorgeous George sans make-up. He isn't even a cannibal now, just a bad, bad tattie whose cells can regenerate - somehow - making him an almost unkillable killing machine. Anyway, it all boils down to Eastman going around murdering members of the cast in very violent ways. This is one of a number of Italian movies which tried to pass themselves off as American back in the early 80's to try and increase their marketability - to this end it includes a scene where a family watches the Superbowl, while dressed in suits and eating bowls of pasta. Overall, this one lacks the slow building dread of the first film but it is probably a bit better paced and has more than its fair share of gory and violent excess. It has to also be said that despite being a bit of pure exploitation, similar to its sister film it still has some great suspense and by the end of it I had to admit that this was another surprisingly good effort.
Review of Absurd
