The stupidity begins with a couple swimming and sunning on an island in Greece. The gal goes out swimming only to be rummaged offscreen while her onshore boyfriend gets his head split by a hatchet! Soon we join Mia Farrow's sister Tisa and a bunch of vacationing jackasses on their way to the island for a little sun and fun. They arrive but something is amiss - the island is completely deserted. The gang explores a house hoping to bed for the night when they discover Rita, a blind, crazed, knife wielding mess. After the crew calms Rita she explains that "some kind of monster has been after me..I can smell him!... I don't know what it looks like but its odor is awful! I'm the only one that knows when he's coming!"

Before you know what the hell is going on we are treated to the D'Amato school of filmmaking - people run off by themselves exploring dark rooms and corridors. Inexplicably on a dark stormy night without electricity people are running through the house and out into the woods and neighboring graveyards! Of course this gives D'Amato the chance to have the "Grim Reaper" pop up and take people out. The Grim Reaper (George Eastman), closely resembling a decomposed Bee Gee brother, starts off by biting a huge chunk out of some retards throat.

While the Reaper is busy popping up and scaring people, a diary is discovered revealing that some kind of madman has been devouring the townsfolk causing a mass exodus from the island. The diary also reveals a secret room where the bodies are hidden. After reading these passages our sassy heroine does what any normal person would do after reading such a passage - she searches for the room by herself! Lovely!

Soon we are following this dude looking for his pregnant girlfriend. He enters a catacomb completely unfazed that rats are crawling around, snacking on recently deceased cadavers! He discovers his girlfriend only to find himself face to face with the Reaper. He tries to talk some sense into the Reaper, "we haven't done anything to you...my girlfriend is pregnant," before we are swept away to a flashback. Baking under the sun we see George (The Reaper), his wife, and their young child in a raft. Starving George starts eyeing up his dead son who is cradled in his mother's arms. When George whips out a knife talking about meat his wife pleads for him to stop before receiving a knife in the chest. A hilarious close up features George screaming "NOOOOOOOOO!!!."

The Grim Reaper snaps out of his flashback and immediately plunges a knife into the boyfriend before turning to his pregnant girlfriend. Here my man D'Amato has the gall to shoot a scene that features the Reaper choking the girl with one hand while plunging the other up her crotch! After some digging around he pulls out the bloody premature tot and munches away! Ugh!

The Reaper continues his rampage chasing the remaining gals into an attic where they barricade themselves. The Reaper gives up on the trap door only to thrust his arm through the roof! He grabs a broads head pulling her through the splintered roof - we are treated to the sight of her face decimated by the wood - before the Reaper rips out a big chunk of throat. A taught chase scene involving an improbable well fall ends with the Reaper having a pick ax slammed into his gut. D'Amato and the Reaper go out in style - looking down at his intestines pouring from his gapping wound the Reaper gets hungry, grabs a handful, and munches down before falling flat on his face!