Absurd (film)
| Absurd (Rosso Sangue) | |
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| Directed by | Joe D'Amato |
| Produced by | Joe D'Amato Donatella Donati |
| Written by | George Eastman |
| Screenplay by | George Eastman |
| Story by | George Eastman |
| Starring | George Eastman Annie Belle Charles Borromel Katya Berger Ian Danby Kasimir Berger Hanja Kochansky Edmund Purdom Ted Rusoff |
| Music by | Carlo Maria Cordio |
| Cinematography | Joe D'Amato |
| Edited by | George Morley |
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Metaxa Corporation |
| Distributed by | Medusa Pictures |
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96 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian English |
Absurd (Italian: Rosso Sangue; also known as Anthropophagus 2, Monster Hunter, Horrible and The Grim Reaper 2) is a 1981 Italian horror film directed by Joe D'Amato and written by (and starring) George Eastman. The film is a follow-up to Antropophagus.
Absurd was one of the infamous Video Nasties of the United Kingdom, and became one of 39 titles to be successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Acts in 1984. It was originally released in both a cut and uncut version with identical sleeve design by Medusa Home Video in 1981. The original tape is sought-after and is an expensive collectable among fans.
It was released in 1980s in the United States as Monster Hunter by Wizard Video. To add to its questionable fame, the film inspired the name for German black metal act Absurd, whose members later switched their interest from gore films to far-right extremism and committed murder in 1993.
The film was considered, at the time of its release, as a "sequel" to the Zombi of horror films, under the title Zombie 6: Monster Hunter. An incorrect description on the back of the box promoted the film as a sequel to those zombie films for a period of time.
Mikos Stenopolis (George Eastman) is a man who was experimented on in a church-sanctioned scientific experiment that gave him a healing factor, but inadvertently drove him insane. The Vatican priest (Edmund Purdom) who helped create him pursues the homicidal Mikos to a small American town, attempting to kill him by impaling him on a set of railings which disembowel him, but he is revived later in a local hospital. The madman escapes after brutally murdering a nurse, and goes on a killing spree. The priest informs the hospital and authorities that the only way to kill Mikos is to 'destroy the cerebral mass'.
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