Absurd
Directed by Joe D'Amato
Produced by Donatella Donati
Joe D'Amato
Written by George Eastman
Starring George Eastman
Music by Carlo Maria Cordio
Cinematography Joe D'Amato
Editing by George Morley
Distributed by Medusa Pictures
Wizard Video
Release date(s) October 1981 (1981-10)
Running time 94 Mins
Country Italy
Language Italian
Absurd (also known as Rosso Sangue, Anthropophagus 2, Horrible, The Grim Reaper 2) is a 1981 Italian horror film, an unofficial sequel to Antropophagus. It was directed by Joe D'Amato and written by George Eastman.
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 Act in 1984. Originally released in both a cut and uncut version with identical sleeve design by Medusa Home Video in 1981. The original tape is a sought after and expensive collectable among fans.
It was released in 1980s in the US as "Monster Hunter" by Wizard Video, with a rather inaccurate synopsis on the back of the old-style "big box."[citation needed] To add to its questionable fame, this movie inspired the name for German black metal act Absurd, whose members later switched their interest from gore movies to extreme right wing politics and committed murder in 1993.[1]
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SynopsisThe plot involves a near invincible man, known only as Mikos, a dead Greek serial murderer, whose blood coagulates incredibly fast, but this gift has made him insanely homicidal. A priest pursues the killer and attempts to destroy 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 killing a nurse and goes on a killing spree. The priest informs the hospital that the only way to kill Mikos is to 'destroy the cerebral mass'.
While attacking a motorcyclist after escaping from the hospital, Mikos is struck by a hit-and-run driver. The driver of the car, Dr. Bennett and his wife are going to a friends house to watch a football game, leaving their two children at home with a babysitter. Their daughter Katia is confined to her bed because of a problem with her spine, while her younger brother believes that the 'Bogeyman' will come to get him.
Mikos makes his way to the Bennetts' home and starts to murder everyone there. The babysitter is stabbed and then has her head forced into a lighted oven, her face blistering and turning purple. Katia sends her brother to get help before struggling from her bed to take on the killer herself. She blinds him with a set of drawing compasses before decapitating him.
CastGeorge Eastman as Mikos Stenopolis
Annie Belle as Emily
Charles Borromel as Sgt. Ben Engleman
Katya Berger as Katia Bennett
Kasimir Berger as Willy Bennett
Hanja Kochansky as Mrs. Bennett
Ian Danby as Mr. Bennett
Ted Rusoff as Dr. Kramer
Edmund Purdom as Father
