Anthropophagous - Darrens Review

CONTAINS SPOLIERS.

Anthropophagous the Beast.

Well, hmmm.
To be honest, it needs renaming:
John Entwistle is Anthropophagous the beast (sponsored by Coca-Cola)



Let’s start with the important facts;
Was/is this worth watching?
Contentious….
It probably is if only for a few scenes.
Unfortunately I couldn’t get past the thought that ‘The Beast’ looked uncannily like John Entwistle from The Who,
Which is quite a connection as when you ask most people about this title, the first response is ‘what, Who’
There was an attempt at a storyline, but my attention slipped off to watch paint dry during extended scenes of ‘meaningless conversations’ that had naff all to do with anything!
Nice campervan mind.
Oh, did I mention Mia Farrows sister make yet another appearance in this?

Something that still stands out in the film is sadly not a special effect, but simply some bizarre dialogue…
A young couple on a beach, he’s topless, his girlfriend strips to a tiny bikini, yet his attention and scripted “oh ya” is directed at their dog which is relaxing in the sun!

See, even now, I’ve deviated from the plot…
It basically evolves around a man goes mad, blah blah blah, eats his family, islanders disappear….blah blah.

So what of the reason for making the DPP?
That’s down to one short clip that could’ve/should’ve been damn memorable….
The eating of a foetus freshly yanked from a pregnant woman. Not your average midwifery there!
I’d heard about the clip years ago & now I’ve seen it.. *shrugs shoulders*

I have to admit to fast-forwarding the ‘tense chase scenes’ –NOT.
No, really I did, the Not was sarcasm.
The naff soundtrack & score helps not at all either.

The film crawls along with painting by numbers style killings, during which you’d be thinking ‘I recognise him’, well, like I said it’s John Entwistle, bass player with The Who.
After dragging things out further there is an almost interesting final death scene where Mr Entwistle can’t resist eating his own spilt guts.
The End.
feck, all it needed was ‘Fin’.

This had the foundations of a classic watch again & again Horror.
Sadly it’s not.
My advice is watch it once just so you can cross it off your list & maybe edit a few clips out to a compiled montage.
Fin.

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