Exoticalot
People are voting emotionally.
Rosie Searle
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Stephen Abell
This is the Italian interpretation of John Carpenter's Halloween. Though, writer George Eastman (who also star's as Mikos Stenopolis) gives the killer a different backstory. It's this back story which places this film into the thriller genre rather than horror, Mikos had taken part in some drug trials which a priest was overwatching. These drugs gave Mikos' blood an ability to coagulate at a rapid rate. This makes him nearly invincible. Unfortunately, the drugs also drove him insane.Mikos stumbles into town and when anybody crosses his path they are compensated with a grisly death.There's not much else to the story and that's what makes the title of the movie so perfect. This is an absurd story and film.There's also very little to love about the movie. The acting is average. Sadly the worst actors are the two leads. Annie Belle as Emily is okay for most of the picture but there are sometimes when she's wooden and stiff. Her best parts are when she's strapped up in traction. This isn't all her fault, her character isn't very well written. In fact, all of the characters seem to be run-of-the-mill and a little dull.Even though George Eastman wrote the story he decided to give the villain, whom he portrayed, no words. Which may have been a good thing. Though Eastman didn't have to worry about fluffing his lines he didn't add much to the character but size... the man is huge. There were some scenes that could have added to the character. Even the great non- talkers, Michael Myers and Jason Vorhees, appear evil and psychologically broken; this comes down to how the actor carried himself, he let his body act. For example, one great scene from Halloween is when Michael lifts a teenager up and then pins him to a wall with a carving knife: As the man hangs there Michael watches silently, then cocks his head to one side; this little action speaks volumes. There's nothing like this in Absurd.The special effects are passable though not great. This can also be said for Joe D'Amato direction. Even the music by Carlo Maria Cordio is similar in style to Carpenter's electronic soundtrack. For the majority of the movie this music is annoying, though surprisingly, it works really well with the end chase scene.The climax of the movie is pretty decent and does give the audience an iconic shot, which sends a shiver down the spine and they will remember.This isn't a classic movie and nowhere near to becoming a cult. If you like Halloween and Friday 13th then you could give this a look-see, it's worth at least one viewing.
muzafar.h.bokhari (amraampk)
Back in the 1984 Feb i watched this film as a 9 year old. In those time it was perhaps the most violent of all features. I didn't catched up from the start but i managed to see in the end , than next day when i returned from school this movie was running again on VCR. The whole family was watching it. The horror which i felt was started at the moment when the nurse in hospital is caught when the deranged blood thirsty killer is conscious again and than he grabs her , than starts to insert a running drill machine in her head which crosses her brain completely from both sides. I had a very bad feeling because my nerves are not very capable of tolerating such scenes, i could had vomited as stream of blood was oozing out like water from tap. When the man like beast escapes and than he in one moment he enters and sees a butcher inside a meat shop than he lifts a chopper to kill him. I ran away because i couldn't handle any more of it ,i layed down in a quilt and shut off my ears not to hear the screams. I even missed the oven death but than i saw the final minutes in which a crippled girl 1st destroys his eyes and than cuts his head off with a big Axe to save herself and other man .Here this beast man was so strong that she had to hit him several times the Axe and her cloths were badly stained by his blood in the process. Thanks to youtube i managed to see some few momewnts of the film again after 25 years. From there i know that Russo sangue a.k.a Absurd is sequel to anthropophagus(Italian movie) which is even more brutal and grue some than this, there in this very same person was acting as Grimm reaper and was not only killing but eating its victims all due to a very mysterious disease at an island. I both like and dislike this film. Thanks Us.IMDb i knew more about the time of its release and the actor George Eastman as Grimm reaper. One should only watch it if he/she is not a faint hearted and have weak nervous system because you can feel too much awkward , in my opinion such movies should not be made in 1st place and if done than it must be for adults only. Regardless of good direction acting story or music such films contain too much gore violence present example is saw trilogy. Watch it but carefully, don't let young people see it
Witchfinder General 666
Joe D'Amato's "Rosso Sangue" aka. "Absurd" of 1981 is sometimes named a sequel to D'Amato's shocking highlight "Antropophagus" of 1980. This is not really true, as while both films star George Eastman as the vicious villain, and both films are extremely gory, the story lines have nothing at all to do with each other. I loved "Antropophagus", which is not only tremendously gory, shocking and disturbing, but also scary as hell. I also enjoyed "Rosso Sangue", but it is not nearly a great as its aforementioned predecessor. The film is, once again extremely gory, and exploitation-icon George Eastman is once again predestined for the role, but the film is not nearly as scary as "Antropophagus", and neither is it anywhere near as shocking. A small town is infested by a genetically mutated man (Eastman), who has the urge to brutally murder everybody he sees, as a result of a nuclear experiment gone wrong. Not only does he have the urge to murder, however, his mutations also made him very strong and immune to injuries... The film's main qualities are the great score, the extreme gore, and George Eastman. The huge Eastman really is one intimidating fellow, who always fits in his mostly sardonic roles. His greatest moments were Mario Bava's 1974 masterpiece "Cani Arrabiati" ("Rabid Dogs"), and "Antropophagus", but Eastman truly is an enrichment to any of the films he starred in, and "Absurd" is no exception. While he is not quite as scary-looking as in "Antropophagus" here, Eastman single-handedly carries the film with his maniacal performance. The other performances are quite forgettable, but this is not really of any importance. Overall, this is not nearly as great as "Antropophagus", but it is definitely a film that any fan of the very brutal kind of Horror/Exploitataion should enjoy. Recommended to my fellow Italian Horror buffs.
Coventry
Joe D'Amato and George Eastman's follow-up to the notorious "The Grim Reaper" (Antropophagus) is sick, twisted and – oh yes – deliciously absurd! There's no real story and the amount of genuine chills is limited, but the gory murder sequences are sensational and they easily rank among the craziest stuff ever caught on film. Eastman once again portrays a Greek psycho-killer, though a different one than the fetus-munching monster in Antropophagus (love that title!), cheerfully butchering half the population of a small American town. Nikos isn't your ordinary madman, but a scientific guinea pig whose blood coagulates much faster and hence he instantly recovers from severe wounds, like gunshots or impalement. He's pursued by an unintelligible priest, a chain-smoking copper and his black assistant who isn't allowed to talk without permission. No wonder none of these blokes is capable of catching or even tracing Nikos and the body count increases immensely. Whenever George isn't barbarically killing someone using band saws, surgical devices or axes, "Absurd" is rather dull, slow-moving and borrowing story ideas as well as direct quotes from John Carpenter's landmark slasher Halloween. There's babysitters in peril, young kids spotting the bogeyman everywhere around the house and dangerous killers escaping from hospital beds. Still, if you're looking for really good horror cinema, just wait for the climax which is quite suspenseful and it makes the popular title "Absurd" all the more meaningful.
