ANTHROPOPHAGOUS 2000

While out yachting, Nikos Karamanlis is stranded at sea with his pregnant wife, Martha, and their daughter, Vicky. After Vicky dies of injuries she sustained while their ship was sinking, Nikos attempts to convince Martha they should cannibalize her body to ensure their own survival. Martha violently objects and, during a struggle, Nikos accidentally stabs her. Nikos eats his wife's and daughter's bodies, which allows him to survive long enough for his raft to float back to his hometown, a village on the outskirts of Borgo San Lorenzo, in Tuscany, Italy. Driven insane by guilt over his actions, Nikos moves into a cave and becomes a serial killer, murdering and consuming people with the reluctant aid of his sister, Irena.

Nikos wipes out his entire village and begins targeting outsiders, including a vacationing couple, Mary and Stuart, and a pair of campers named Hank and Allan. Mary and Stuart's friends, Georg Stockmann, Rita, Marc, Vincent, and Caroll, experience trouble with their RV just outside the village, which they find abandoned except for scattered corpses, Mary's blind sister, Auriet, and Irena, who, while fleeing from Georg, leaves behind the written message, "Go away." Nikos kills Vincent, brings Caroll to his cave, and moves the RV while Irena commits suicide in front of Georg, Rita, Marc, and Auriet.

Georg finds Nikos's journal, and while he is reading it, Carroll's husband, a surgeon named Stan, arrives in the village and is greeted by Marc. The two men go off in search of Carroll. Nikos kills Marc and follows Stan to the cave, where he reveals his traumatic past to Stan and Carroll before killing them, cutting the latter open with a rock and tearing out and eating her and Stan's unborn child. Nikos kills Auriet and Rita and gets into a fight with Georg. After Georg shoots him several times in the torso, Nikos, in a fit of madness, rips out and gnaws on his own innards before trying to drown Georg. While dunking Georg in a pool, Nikos is overcome by visions of Martha and is overpowered by Georg, who beats and decapitates him with a shovel as the suicidal Nikos pleads with Georg to "release me."

An unknown amount of time later, an Interpol agent named Doctor Steven Bauers is brought to Nikos's cave after being informed by two fellow agents they have still not located Georg. Bauers finds Georg's cellphone and Nikos's journal, which chronicles everything up until Nikos was killed by Georg. As Bauers wonders how the journal got into the cave and who added the extra entries to it, he is shot in the face by an unseen assailant, presumably Georg.

Nikos is ultimately beheaded by Georg after a brutal confrontation, but in a final twist, Interpol agent Bauers is killed by an unseen assailant while leaving the cave.

The ending doubles down on the film’s nihilistic streak: even after the monstrous Nikos is dispatched, violence persists, leaving no clear survivors or resolution. By having Bauers killed by an unknown figure, the film refuses closure, suggesting the cycle of horror continues and underlining the futility of escape or understanding in this splatterverse.