Absurd (Italian: Rosso Sangue, literal translation: Blood Red; also known as Anthropophagus 2, Zombie 6: Monster Hunter, Horrible, and The Grim Reaper 2) is a 1981 English-language Italian slasher film directed, lensed, and co-produced by Joe D'Amato and starring George Eastman, who also wrote the story and screenplay.

The Vatican priest 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 that disembowel him.

The car's driver, Mr. Bennett, and his wife are going to a friend's house for a Super Bowl viewing party, leaving their two children at home with a babysitter.

Their daughter Katya is confined to her bed because of a problem with her spine, while her younger brother believes that the "Bogeyman" is coming to get him.

Mikos breaks into Katya's bedroom and attacks her, but she manages to stab him in the eyes with a set of drawing compasses.

The police and the rest of the family arrive to discover Katya standing in the doorway, covered in blood, holding Mikos's severed head.

[5] At one point during the shoot, according to D'Amato's personal documents, the film's working title was La porta dell'oltretomba (literally: "The Door of the Beyond").

[3] A few months later, in the summer of 1981, the same set was used in the three adult films Baby sitter, Pat una donna particolare and ...e il terzo gode directed by Alberto Cavallone under the pseudonym "Baron Corvo".

"[8] Joe D'Amato attempted to make the film more attractive to the American market by setting it in the United States, even though it was shot in Italy.

[1] Absurd was originally released in both a cut and uncut version with identical sleeve design by Medusa Home Video in 1981.

[citation needed] In its uncut state, Absurd was placed on the DPP's list of video nasties in 1983, but that same year a version was released theatrically with two minutes and 23 seconds of cuts.

[17] In 2012, Peter Normanton wrote: "While hopelessly limited by the constraints of an inadequate budget, [D'Amato] was still able to deliver the American-styled slasher, with script-writer George Eastman [...] engaging just enough narrative to allow the psychopath to stray between a series of set pieces as he killed off a predominantly youthful supporting cast.

"[18] Critic Jim Harper opined, "(Absurd) boasts a more interesting plot (than Anthropophagous) and thankfully does not contain over an hour of dull holiday footage.