kldhad-171-649112
Saw this movie in a double feature as a young girl with my cousin. I've always loved horror movies, especially Hammer flicks. Pretty interesting movie, however, when they divided it looked like chicken noodle soup to me. I wasn't able to eat chicken noodle soup for years... Loved the movie, not the soup :-)
bkoganbing
Although the science is somewhat suspect Island Of Terror still is one of the better products from Hammer Studios in Great Britain. The creatures on the island are soulless and scary. They would be as they are just large one cell creatures who subdivide like an amoeba.Working on one of the Channel Islands on a cure for cancer Dr. Peter Forbes-Robertson has created these silicon based big size amoeba who eat animal bone and leave the carcasses like the deflated balloons after the Thanksgiving Day Parade. They are out of the laboratory now and wreaking havoc on the island.Fortunately other scientists like Peter Cushing and Edward Judd are frantically working on a way to kill these creatures who are not just soulless but also impervious to just about everything they try. And it isn't like there's a stockpile of weapons on this peaceful Channel island.Carole Gray is also around to bolster morale for the scientists, especially Judd and to scream when these creatures approach. She does well on both counts.I'm flippant, but Island Of Terror is not a bad horror film and the coda to the ending gives us all reason for concern.
mark.waltz
O.K., we can all agree that there have been some pretty silly looking monsters in 1950's and 1960's horror movies. A flowing blob of goo, giant turkeys, walking trees and even a rock that waddled after its intended victims. Now here comes one of the oddest, a silly looking creature that rumor has was authorized by the Hoover administration-a vacuum cleaner like creature that literally sucks the bone marrow and the solid mass around it right out of it. These creatures also have the ability to climb trees and drop out of the sky just like that house in "The Wizard of Oz". That most serious of all mad doctors, Peter Cushing, is aghast to find out that his experiments unleashed this evil. All he wanted to do was go to the peaceful island to work on a cure for cancer. The entire island ends up trapped in a building surrounded by them, just like the townspeople haunted by the blob and other various monsters in similar films. Add on radioactivity to make these hose nosed creatures even more dangerous, and you've got another film reminding us of what the world has done wrong. So enjoy the unbelievable silliness of the whole thing and remember afterwards that your own household appliance is just that...or is it?
Uriah43
While researching a possible cure for cancer on an island off the coast of Ireland, the renowned scientist in charge of the project accidentally creates a living organism that feeds off of all other living creatures. Since the island isn't very big, three doctors named "Brian Stanley" (Peter Cushing), "David West" (Edward Judd) and "Reginald Landers" (Eddie Byrne) desperately look for a way to kill these organisms before it's too late. Helping them is David West's girlfriend, "Toni Merrill" (Carole Gray). Anyway, filmed in the mid-60's, this movie has good suspense and keeps the tension going pretty much from start to finish. The acting was okay but I imagine most people will find the special effects to be quite primitive compared to the computer enhanced graphics used today. Even so, the movie managed to maintain my interest and I believe most people will find it relatively enjoyable all the same. Slightly above average.
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