Pete Smith Yet another Joe D'Amato stinker. As a huge fan of 70-80's horror/gore/sleaze flicks this was yet a another let down. Someone told me this is way better than over rated "Antropophagus" (just terrible), but I was fooled. There is no problem for me that script anyone could crank up in 30 minutes, mediocre acting, lack of cinematography or direction etc.There are pointless scenes in this movie that drag forever or at least feel like that to drag this garbage around feature film length (you can watch poorly made surgery scene for 10 minutes and 15 minutes of some broad trying to figure out how to open a belt atc. filler that challenge you not to fast forward)Like mentioned that is fine by me if there is proper gore for pay off. Nope. Unfortunately there is like 5-6 deaths on this "slasher" movie.Half off screen or aftermath. Couple death scenes try to be graphic butfx is truly terrible. (yes I watched the "superuncutcollectorseditionwhatever") Like topic says: how this couldbeen "video nasty". You see more red stuff in bottle of ketchup than onthis flick.The biggest mystery for me is how Joe D'Amato managed to get some funding to crank out 10-20 movies per year. And oh boy does it show. Don't waste your time on this one. Some kids here praising this as an"brutal" or "disturbing" haven't seen nothing.

Roman James Hoffman 'Absurd' is Joe D'Amato's follow-up to the notorious 'Antropophagus' and it often referred to as its sequel. However, apart from the same director and having the looming George Eastman once again wandering around killing people, there is very little similarity save the fact they are both poor films…with 'Absurd' definitely trumping its predecessor in the low quality stakes. Gone is the setting on a remote and eerily empty Greek island which characterised 'Antropohagus ', instead supplanting the (so-called) action to a small American town. In doing this, 'Absurd' is clearly going for a 'Halloween' nightmare-in-suburbia vibe…but in lacking any of the character development, script, or technical craft of Carpenter's flick, 'Absurd' flails about limply with a lame premise, zero suspense, and only manages to glimpse redemption (albeit unattained) with the make-up effects on the kills…which is no doubt why is got on the DPP's list of Video Nasties.The plot (as some would have it) is that Eastman has undergone a scientific procedure which has enabled his body to regenerate itself quickly (a la Wolverine) and consequently can only be killed with a shot to the head. Oh, and he's insane. As such, a killing spree ensues and the Priest-cum-scientist who "created" him hooks up with the town Sheriff to hunt him down. The showdown takes place in a house with a girl (for some reason) recovering from a spinal operation, her nurse, and a really annoying kid. I've always found a house to be a great setting for a suspenseful horror movie (e.g. 'Last House on the Left' (1972), 'Black Christmas' (1974), 'Halloween' (1978)) but the pacing of 'Absurd' is so slow and the acting so bad on all counts that none of the suspense and tension which is so abundantly present in these other movies even threatens to show its head…let alone eviscerate you.Okay, putting on my positive cap: some of the kills are pretty cool e.g. the buzzsaw-in-the-head scene as well as the oven scene, and the soundtrack has its moments…but even in a 90 minute film with competent acting and a decent story this wouldn't cut it, let alone a movie as deplorable as this. The film is quite hard to come by as it hasn't been reissued in the UK, which maybe adds a mystique to it but, as far as video nasties go, it's clear that boredom more than moral outrage is the reason why.

FilmFatale Big George Eastman is severely injured while being chased by a priest. Guts in hand (literally!), he shows up at a house and then is taken to the hospital. While at the hospital, the surgical staff discover his blood clots quickly and that he heals at a much faster rate than a normal person. Eastman escapes, the priest pursues, and then we take a detour through a direct copy of Halloween before the movie ends.Absurd is often billed as a sequel to Anthropophagus but Eastman is the only real connection. The story is crazy, and there's lots of boring padding as we watch characters watch TV. However, gore scenes are what we're looking for here, and there are a few nice set pieces on display including a drill through a head and a bandsaw through a head. Apart from these few gore scenes, Absurd is pretty much a dull mess.

BA_Harrison Absurd sees George Eastman as Mikos Stenopolis, an insane maniac who is capable of regenerating dead cells, a trick which renders him almost indestructible. As Mikos terrorises a small community, a determined priest (Edmund Purdom) and local cop Sgt. Ben Engleman (Charles Borromel) attempt to track him down and deal him the only way they know how: by destroying his brain.Despite its alternate moniker 'Anthropophagus 2', and the presence of the hulking George Eastman as a bloodthirsty monster, this film really has little in common with director Joe D'amato's other infamous nasty 'Anthropophagus', apart from the fact that it too earned itself a place on the official DPP list of films thanks to a whole heap of cheap and nasty gore.If anything, Absurd (AKA Horrible) bears more similarities to (ie., it rips off) John Carpenter's classic 'Halloween' stealing liberally from that film's plot and emulating its characters: Nikos is D'amato's Michael Myers (he is even referred to by a child as 'The Bogeyman'); Purdom's priest is this film's Dr. Loomis; and nurse Emily (Annie Belle) is Laurie Strode. As if that wasn't enough, Absurd also borrows musical cues from Carpenter's menacing Halloween theme.Of course, D'amato is nowhere near as adept at film-making as Carpenter, and fails to conjure up even a fraction of Halloween's atmosphere, scares and style; this means that, when the director isn't spilling entrails and splitting skulls, the film is extremely dull, with scenes unnecessarily drawn out to mind-numbing length. In fact, only the finalé—in which a blinded Eastman stumbles after a disabled girl—displays any kind of ingenuity or tension.