Rosso sangue (1981)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Joe D'Amato

Writer:

George Eastman (writer)

Release Date:

October 1981 (Italy)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

Priest comes to small town to help get rid of a monster whose blood coagulates very fast. This creates...

Plot Keywords:

Blood | Priest | Baffled Doctor | Escaped Mental Patient | Human Monster

Cast

George Eastman	...	Mikos Stenopolis
Annie Belle	...	Emily
Charles Borromel	...	Sgt. Ben Engleman
Katya Berger	...	Katia Bennett
Kasimir Berger	...	Willy Bennett
Hanja Kochansky	...	Mrs. Bennett
Ian Danby	...	Mr. Bennett
Ted Rusoff	...	Dr. Kramer
Edmund Purdom	...	Father

Also Known As:

Absurd (International: English title) (USA)
Monster Hunter (USA)
Antropophagus 2
Horrible (USA) (DVD title)
The Grim Reaper 2
Zombie 6: Monster Hunter

Runtime:

96 min | Germany:83 min | Spain:88 min | USA:90 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:18 (re-rating) (heavily cut) | Canada:(Banned) (Ontario) | Australia:R | France:-16 | UK:X | West Germany:(Banned)

Company:

Filmirage

Trivia:

The film was one of the original 74 UK video nasties and banned by the BBFC in 1984. It has yet to be re-released in Britain.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Joe D'Amato at Eurofest (2007) (V)

It's absurd, completely absurd. Recuperative powers like that don't exist.

This is one of the extremely hard-to-find films known as Video Nasties. It was released with two minutes and 32 seconds cut in 1983, and then withdrawn, and never re-submitted.

The doctors are amazed when a patient (George Eastman) manages to survive an operation after being brought in with his guts hanging out. When he wakes, he does a little operating of his own on a nurse.

We soon see that Mikos (Eastman) has superhuman powers, as bullets do not stop him in his second bloody kill. Even being run over by a car doesn't slow him down.

The film features Annie Belle (The House on the Edge of the Park). Will she escape the boogieman, or become his 5th victim? Things get pretty heated before he is finished.

Then he has a protracted battle with the injured daughter (Katya Berger), who managed to rise up despite her spinal injuries. In a miracle of modern medicine, she manages to swing an ax at him several times.

Great ending!!