Thursday, January 8, 2026

The Grim Reaper [Antropophagus (1980)] - Newspaper

San Francisco Examiner - January 8, 1982
Way, way back in 1982, Daly City's Geneva Drive-In had the kind of double-bill Joe Bob Briggs loves to lionize in memoriam. 

The Grim Reaper was an easier to sell retitling of Joe D'Amato's infamous cannibal slasher opus Antropophagus. It would also be the very first movie Briggs ever reviewed for his quick to be popular, and thus syndicated, Drive-In Movie Review column. If you have a strong stomach, you might enjoy it. Many have. Some have not. So it goes.

Coupled with The Grim Reaper was a re-release of 1979's Don't Go in the House, a nasty 'little' riff off of Psycho that featured a psychotic momma's boy (Dan Grimaldi) incinerating women with his trusty flamethrower. Ouch.

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